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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Wait, why not? I've been doing this for a few games so I can play on Linux or boot to Windows and play there if I need more reliable remote play or better performance. I haven't had any major issues, just annoying occasional proton reinstallation when I'm in Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wait a minute, Proton didn't shit the bed when you run games off of NTFS? Did you happen to set permission masks or smth?

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

@MyFairJulia wait, you can run games from ntfs drives with linux? what ntfs driver is recommended for that? is ntfs3g broken? I'm asking because each time I try to do something like that, I do get permission issues, as you say. Worse, each time windows would make a file, the linux side would come up with a permission error when trying to access it. That's why, I don't use ntfs stuff anymore at all

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

I didn't know that I wasn't meant to run windows game off ntfs, didn't have any issues but the drive did die recently (bad sector) I'm assuming this might have been the reason?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

that's possible, ntfs and linux are known to not work very well, as you probably have seen in this thread.

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