A few years ago I would say gaming on Linux isn't worth it.
This was me in 2021.
I ate my hat when SteamDeck came out.
I'm really excited for the future of Linux!
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@Potatos_are_not_friends Two things happened that changed everything: Proton and the open-source AMD graphics stack.
Let's not forget VKD3D and DXVK. Absolutely earthshattering impact
I see that you dedicated a paragraph to NTFS. There are quite a lot of people saying there are problems with gaming on Linux using an NTFS drive but I've rarely (never?!) seen anyone actually having problems with it. I myself have been dual booting for years and some games are on an NTFS drive shared between Linux and windows for convenience and I never had any issues besides the fact I had to disable fast reboot in Windows.
I've heard a lot of varying experiences but for me personally I just couldn't get it to work, and I tried most of the workarounds like disabling fast reboot. It worked for a while but every now and then I'd constantly have to reset permissions for the entire drive, and even then games would not run sometimes. If someone knows more about this I'd love some info on it, but in general most of the Linux community agrees that NTFS causes more trouble than it's worth.
I used ntfs while ago and the driver included in kernel corrupted my drive :p It was also very annoying when almost every single boot windows was forcing sfc scan and linux had problems mounting with write permisions.
It’s been a while since I switched to btrfs but I do remember the permissions being an issue with NTFS. It was quite annoying because Steam wouldn’t trigger an error so it was hard to debug when the game never opened.
When I still had a ntfs drive some games would play fine off of it but some would barely run or fail to launch completely. ESO didn't care about being on an ntfs partition and ran fine. I think it was Doom 2013 that didn't like it for me.
Bookmarked for later. Right now my aging PC is Windows 10 but been seriously thinking going OpenSuse with my next build, since Proton is magic according to my Steam Deck.
Luckily, Steam has a convenient way of moving games to your Linux partition.
How do you do this? Thanks.
Whoops. I forgot to mention this. I'll add a little section for it later...
Go to Steam settings --> Storage. There you can add your 2nd Steam folder and be able to move games back and forth. You can select many games and click "Move".
This is a great post! Thanks for writing it up!
Def a bunch of things I didn't know or was briefly familiar with.
Huh, I could manage this. I still think anything involving a command line is going to be too much for all but people who just like tech stuff.