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.
Yeah no, I disagree with you and agree with the Reddit post. I had games in my NTFS drive when I fully swapped Linux and they stood there for a year because I’m lazy and they ran fine, but taking the time to copy them to another brtfs drive, format the NTFS one to brtfs and swap them back, then reconfigure steam to rediscover the games sped up their performances because while the NTFS translation layer works incredibly well for what it’s doing, using an actual Linux native dusk format is just better.
You fuckup is probably because you didn’t do the swap correctly, yet your recommendation is to not attempt the swap instead of doing it correctly.
For others that are thinking of doing this, move everything to a different drive temporarily, then format, then move everything back. On steam, remove the steam library from the drive and add it again. If there were any issues during the swaps steam will realise on the check it does when reading the steal library of that drive, and prompt you to download whatever it finds faulty.