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[Guide] Everything you need to know about gaming on Linux (popcar.bearblog.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by popcar2 to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I just finished writing a guide on everything you need to know in order to game on Linux. It covers Proton (Steam play), using Heroic Launcher (with Wine-GE), and all sorts of tidbits and tips I wish people had told me earlier. I hope this can be useful to someone out there!

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230816141640/https://popcar.bearblog.dev/everything-linux-gaming/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I see that you dedicated a paragraph to NTFS. There are quite a lot of people saying there are problems with gaming on Linux using an NTFS drive but I've rarely (never?!) seen anyone actually having problems with it. I myself have been dual booting for years and some games are on an NTFS drive shared between Linux and windows for convenience and I never had any issues besides the fact I had to disable fast reboot in Windows.

[–] popcar2 6 points 1 year ago

I've heard a lot of varying experiences but for me personally I just couldn't get it to work, and I tried most of the workarounds like disabling fast reboot. It worked for a while but every now and then I'd constantly have to reset permissions for the entire drive, and even then games would not run sometimes. If someone knows more about this I'd love some info on it, but in general most of the Linux community agrees that NTFS causes more trouble than it's worth.

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