Are previously downloaded Steam games transferable from Windows to Linux? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by lightnsfw@reddthat.com to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I've backed up many of the Steam games I had installed in Windows. Am I able to use these on Linux or do I need to re-download them?

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[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

So currently my backups are on my media server which is ext4. These would be moved to my gaming system when I wanted to install them. I would just need to make sure that was formatted in exfat for this to work?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 1 year ago

No, in that case you're fine. Exfat is really only good for shared drives. Just use the default of your distribution.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. Thanks

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