Any way to prevent save files being shared by different Steam users on distros that depend on steam?(SteamOS/ChimeraOS/HoloISO) (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 9 months ago by ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking about making a dedicated gaming PC which is to be shared in our household. ChimeraOS/HoloISO seems the ideal solution to that... Except that games thay it means that all save files of games that don't use Steam Cloud OR write save files on Valve's recommended directory are shared between users.

Is there any tool that can recognize the current active Steam User and swap save files on the background? The other solution is to forego using HoloISO/ChimeraOS/SteamOS and install a traditional distro and make different users have different system accounts, but that sounds a nightmare to deal with due to Steam Family Sharing requiring that all steam users are logged into each system users, so the library is shared across all of them. Not to mention config files are going to be separated as well...

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[-] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 months ago

You could make a different account for each person so it would be a different /home, and a different instance of steam

[-] ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 9 months ago

Afaik it isn't an option in SteamOS/HoloISO/ChimeraOS and would require a more "traditional" distro to be used, which does fixes those issues, but now we have other issues, like how those distros aren't made to be used as consoles, and there's the issue with Steam Family Sharing (as I understand, you need to be logged with the Steam Account in each system user you wish to share the library with)

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