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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 21 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, me running my whole Steam library off ZFS over NFS 😅

[–] panda_paddle@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As a windows user, this meme both confused and frightened me.

[–] a1_15@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Windows users don't need to worry about Wine/Proton

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, why not? I've been doing this for a few games so I can play on Linux or boot to Windows and play there if I need more reliable remote play or better performance. I haven't had any major issues, just annoying occasional proton reinstallation when I'm in Linux.

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wait a minute, Proton didn't shit the bed when you run games off of NTFS? Did you happen to set permission masks or smth?

[–] EddyBot@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

the issue probably is that you had the proton/wineprefixes on ntfs which will not work

[–] PlutoParty@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I run overwatch and rdr2 from ntfs partition with no problems. I just created a symlink from the default install path.

[–] bgtlover@linuxrocks.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@MyFairJulia wait, you can run games from ntfs drives with linux? what ntfs driver is recommended for that? is ntfs3g broken? I'm asking because each time I try to do something like that, I do get permission issues, as you say. Worse, each time windows would make a file, the linux side would come up with a permission error when trying to access it. That's why, I don't use ntfs stuff anymore at all

[–] krow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know that I wasn't meant to run windows game off ntfs, didn't have any issues but the drive did die recently (bad sector) I'm assuming this might have been the reason?

[–] bgtlover@linuxrocks.online 3 points 2 years ago

that's possible, ntfs and linux are known to not work very well, as you probably have seen in this thread.