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PSA for people trying out Wine/Proton for the first time (lemmy.world)
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[-] ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] pino@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago

yeah, those were the days I got into Linux gaming and I was dual booting with steam games on ntfs partition. Pain, only pain

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