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Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as a Trojan and Removes it from the System - Deform (deform.co)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I really need to bite the bullet and wipe windows off my new laptop. I've had an arch based distro downloaded and ready to go since mid August. Just don't want to have to download my steam library again. My shitty Internet is painful sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can't you just move it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can confirm you can just move the game files to your Linux steam library to avoid redownloading

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That might help. Sadly I don't have enough raw space worth of thumb drives. And I'd do a full install of Linux, no dual booting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Buy a second drive, they are cheap these days. Then you can keep the OEM Windows around, for a just in case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oof, I hear ya there. At least in my case I pretty much only play older games from GOG, usually in a virtual machine, so no Steam for me.

I did however go out of my way to download and compile the source code for Descent 1 and 2 directly on Linux, that was fun figuring out how to compile LOL!

Good luck with your Steam library though. If it was me, I'd test Linux out in a virtual machine first so you can test out copying your games over without outright wiping Windows first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there no way to save your stream library to an external hard drive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've got a bunch of large games. And not as much space worth of thumb drives.

The other concerns, I have two programs that would be a pain to get running with wine.