can i add games from windows folder to steamos?
I just installed steam os on my legion go. Can I add games from windows folder to steam? and how? pls help me
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Since your windows folder is obviously ntfs then no
Ntfs is a terrible choice for sharing game drives between windows and linux
Unless your windows drive is btrfs
oh, so i need more hardware format btrfs to share between 2 os ?
Yes you need drive formatted as btrfs
And you need winbtrfs driver in windows side
Do it with your own risk because i cannot guarantee the data is safe since winbtrfs is third party project not from microsoft itself
oh i just have 1tb from my lgg, maybe sharing game not feasible
You could do 100GB for Windows, 100GB for Bazzite and a 800GB shared btrfs partition. Note that there are some permissions that you have to set in WinBTRFS else you end up with files that your Bazzite user cannot access if they are created by Windows. There is a guide on this https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/#sharing-games-with-a-windows-dual-boot
If you have epic, gog and amazon prime games, then rather use Heroic Games Launcher in Windows than the other clients. Not sure if Uplay and EA games works with BTRFS on Windows. Gamepass games cannot be installed on the BTRFS drive.
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nah it emplements the opensource btrfs type of filesystem. only why it is not from Microsoft means not that its bad or bugy. i use this solution with shared btrfs drive like from the vido from mike and it works great so far
yes but its from third party project and windows is never designed to be use with linux filesystem
its easy to do. the only tricky part for me was the creation with the grub live system that worked not for me but maybe you can create the btrfs partition in bazzite.
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How to set up a shared btrfs partition for sharing games between Wi...
In this video we'll be looking at how to create a shared btrfs partition for
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00:00 Introduction
00:48 Creating our shared btrfs partition in GParted
01:40 Installing WinBtrfs
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03:16 WinBtrfs permission configuration
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its like ntfs filesystem on linux
it works but there is a catch
in my opinion that dos not matter because the driver is designed to do. windows is designed to use third party drivers for devices right? also devices like storage ssd, hdd, sticks etc. so if the driver is ok windows can do handle the device and the storage i think ✌️
fair but don't complain if there is a problem like data corruption or something
not sure if that is compareable since im not sure if ntfs is open source. btrfs is open source so people can develop btrfs drivers for every operating system that allows third party drivers. Ok soory dont want do start a discussion here, in my usecase it makes no problem since weeks of shared usage.
I would recommend that you hide your main Bazzite partition from from Windows in the WinBtrfs configuration else you can break your Bazzite install from inside of Windows (same as if you mount your Windows ntfs partition in Bazzite), this in mentioned in the guider.
So far so good with the shared btrfs partition but time will tell. Then again if it breaks it's just a games partition. I wouldn't put important documents on it.
yes, and we can check the btrfs partition with KDE Partitionmanager