I saw this post on reddit and im banned there so I figured I’d post here for anyone who sees this and considers it.
I’ve directly tried this before, it was close to a year ago though or maybe longer so maybe things changed. But I’ve noticed when you try to launch a game that was previously running through wine on windows instead, it can completely stop the game from launching with wine in the future unless you reinstall the game (or maybe change install drive in steam?) or do some other fix im unaware of.
That’s not a problem for everyone, if you just wanna use that specific game only on windows then you’re fine, but i thought this should still be kept in mind in case people decide to do this to compare performance etc.
and also in order to run games off an ntfs drive you just need to set drive permissions in your fstab. Im on the shitter rn so maybe once im back at my pc ill grab the options and edit them into this. Sometimes the drive will stop giving proper access to it and all you need to do is run fsck on the windows drive then it should work on linux properly again its just some dumb windows shit.
EDIT: uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133 these are the options to add to your fstab, replace uid and gid with your user id and group id of your user account. after that games should work fine on ntfs.
i used to have an entire drive that was ntfs just to store stuff between windows and linux now its just bcache formatted to xfs though cuz i never touch windows really.
@Jumpropegazing
I had just migrated all my old steam Library around a month ago from my NTFS drive to ext4 because I was recieving non-stop permission errors.
Other oddities were observed but cleared with ext4 usage.
The real move is to migrate away from all Microsoft products.
I’m not editing my fstab for steam. :gphn_cup:
On a bright note:
I finally got my Nvidia 980ti gaming on Wayland yesterday.
I couldn’t get it to log into Wayland a month ago.
This reminds me of how much I hate the fact that we haven’t had a PROPER portable file system that is truly portable, for nearly 20 years.
FAT32/ExFAT is fine, but simply lack a ton of features to be truly a modern portable FS. It’s fine if you want to drag around a few files, but for more complex tasks, it doesn’t have the right setup.
Ext4 is starting to show its age.
BTRFS could be the answer but both Microsoft and Apple are shitheads about filesystem drivers so it’s super hard to integrate with them.
Let’s not even talk about how closely Apple tries to guard HFS+/AppleFS, default drivers on any commercial OS will be a hurdle.
And Microsoft… third time trying to make ReFS happen while NTFS withers away, ancient, impossibly unusable for modern tasks due to its architecture, and licensed in a way as if someone would actually want to steal the crap functionality implemented in it.
lol i agree trust me thats why i did the same thing except for bcache with xfs, i wouldnt get gaming errors but i switched after having windows mounting the drive make it unmountable without a fsck that shit pmo never been happier not dealing with that shitty filesystem