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Current state of NTFS compatibility?
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Windows doesn't have ext4 compatibility. When you mount a Linux partition through WSL you aren't actually mounting the drive itself, you are booting a VM up and piping all I/O through that VM back to an emulated disk device on the host windows OS
You would be better off having your steam library on an NTFS partition - at least your Linux OS can read the drive natively
Yeah, but then I end up in all the threads about steam for linux having issues with NTFS.
It doesn't have issues. It just doesn't work. You need your library on ext3/4 for the games to run on linux.
For what it's worth I've never had an issue launching a game from a library on my NTFS partition
I never managed, I used Linux Mint, but I didn't bother to try others.