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[-] Poopmeister@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I've recently installed Linux. Have a hdd full with steam games (for windows) Is there any way to get that to work without needing to format the drive and install the games again? Looked a bit at it but every article seems to suggest formating the drive to get it to work with proton.

[-] Water1053@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's technically possible but not recommended as the NTFS format has some quirks under Linux. Give yourself the best chance at everything working and do full reinstalls after a format.

[-] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

"Has some quirks" is putting it mildly. I had a couple of drives that I thought were dead because I kept getting errors. I reformatted them to ext4 and they were fine.

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