cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39957209

Hello lemmings, I’ve once again come for your advice. I’ve built a sff system with a dual boot bazzite os. This will be mostly for my kids playing games and media serving from Big picture in the living room. I’m trying to figure out the best way to set up the accounts. Ideally it would be as close to a console experience as possible but I want to make sure each kid can save their own progress. What’s my best option here? Does everyone need their own os account that signs them into steam properly? I’ve never set up a system for multiple users before.

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Edit: thanks for all the feedback! I’m leaning towards single system account with multiple steam accounts. Now I just need to figure out how to keep myself signed in on steam so I don’t have to put my PW in every time. Thanks a ton!

  • soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    I’d go with different system acounts. That way their savegames are guaranteed to stay separate.

    That’s because on PC most games just care about the system user when determining the savegame folder, and don’t care about steam accounts.

    So, what I’d do is to: