[Guide] Everything you need to know about gaming on Linux (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by popcar2@programming.dev to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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Hi everyone, I just finished writing a guide on everything you need to know in order to game on Linux. It covers Proton (Steam play), using Heroic Launcher (with Wine-GE), and all sorts of tidbits and tips I wish people had told me earlier. I hope this can be useful to someone out there!

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[-] Weazel@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] popcar2@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] UkaszGra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] CarlosCheddar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Montartemis@artemis.camp 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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