Brand New Install Of Bazzite. Steam will not download and games will not launch
Hey I hope I'm making a request correctly. I am Completely lost at this point. I'm really new at linux and I'm just fully struggling with my system. Steam can see my HDD (which I basically swapped from my old windows OS straight into Bazzite), but nothing will run and whenever I try and download a game (Counter-Strike 2) I get a disk write error. I tried checking forums and Reddit posts, no known fixes seem to work (or I'm just a novice and I must've done something wrong). I even tried using ChatGPT to walk me through it. I'm completely stuck, and considering going back to MicroSh*t Windours 10.
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You installed bazzite on a hdd?
Like hdd, not ssd?
Oh wait only the game drive is hdd? You mentioned its straight from windows plugged to bazzite. Id its an ntfs drive well its not supported
By swapped, you mean it's still NTFS formatted?
Hey guys… what’s NTFS? I’m gonna start there. I don’t know what I’m doin and I had no idea NTFS formatting was an issue. I definitely didn’t read enough when looking into this, so I’ll start with trying to reformat the drive (HOPEFULLY I can find a way to get my save files transferred to my freshly formatted drive). If you have any advice for this level of noobalingus defection such as mine, I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks for responding so quickly
I think it should go without saying, I will not be using ChatGPT anymore when it comes to getting help with Linux. It can recall commands well but it completely missed that NTFS isn’t supported. Im sure this is the headache I’ve been dealing with. I’ll keep watching this post if y’all have any insight or advice to share. Thanks again
can you open the terminal, run and post the output of
lsblk -f?
ntfs is microsoft's default filesystem, which doesn;t play well with linux. if the drive is indeed NTFS, then you will have to reformat it to btrfs (essentialy wiping the contents)I've begun the process of copying the contents of the HDD to another location (backing up all my game saves and all my important files). After this is done I will reformat my drive to btrfs and copy my data back onto the drive. I've realized the error of doing this with hard drives, as the process has already taken over 2 hours just to copy the data and transfer it over. Hopefully I will have the drive reformatted and the data transferred back within the next few hours
good luck!