Meanwhile, me running my whole Steam library off ZFS over NFS 😅
NFS can achieve very high speeds. Unsurprisingly the biggest bottleneck is network bandwidth but if you have 10G or more dedicated it’ll be fine
I mean…Linux now has a good, mainlined NTFS driver. Sure you could use exfat, but even if you don’t plan ahead NTFS works fine nowadays
There were a lot of problems getting proton to work on NTFS, but that’s only because the COMPATDATA directory must not be located on NTFS. Worked fine the moment you symlinked COMPATDATA to your ext4 drive.
There was a time, where this problem got discussed almost weekly on reddit.
As a windows user, this meme both confused and frightened me.
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.
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?
@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
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?
