Hah. I just saw this on the back of some other guy berating me for complaining that Steam exploded when trying to get it to acknowledge Steam libraries on NTFS drives. I’ll stop complaining the moment my stuff works.
But hey, I hear my HDR monitors are supposed to have stopped artifacting out on the latest Nvidia drivers I installed last week, so if I ever get Steam to work again maybe I can give that another try and see if I can scratch that one from my routine.
Meh, never mind me. I’m just cranky from all the troubleshooting. I really thought I had this down semi-permanently a couple weeks ago.
Yeah. It was working for me for a while, and then some combination of some drives refusing to mount and some Nvidia driver issues ended up in a state where it doesn’t anymore.
I tried removing all related Steam packages and starting over but it didn’t quite do it, and I draw the line at reinstalling the entire OS. I could do a more thorough scrub and start over step by step, but man…
Gotta keep Windows for work reasons, I’m not rebooting every time I want to play a game and there are terabytes of stuff in there I’m not duplicating.
So yeah, I’m going to use whatever format works on both (which at this point is MS’s option, I’d take a good ext4 implementation on Windows, too).
And, you know, if that isn’t an option then maybe Linux isn’t ready? Maybe that cue card had stuff written on both sides, eh?
Seriously, what’s with the Linux community defaulting to “oh, you tried to do this officially supported thing on Linux? You idiot”. If I’m not supposed to use NTFS on Linux maybe don’t include a driver for it that mounts all my Windows drives out of the box. In the meantime I’ll continue my entirely unreasonable expectation that built-in features of the OS actually work.
For the record, it is Steam that’s borked. The NTFS driver just randomly sets the dirty flag on the drives and forces me to manually clean them up every now and then. I could live with that if it was the only issue.
Hah. I just saw this on the back of some other guy berating me for complaining that Steam exploded when trying to get it to acknowledge Steam libraries on NTFS drives. I’ll stop complaining the moment my stuff works.
But hey, I hear my HDR monitors are supposed to have stopped artifacting out on the latest Nvidia drivers I installed last week, so if I ever get Steam to work again maybe I can give that another try and see if I can scratch that one from my routine.
Meh, never mind me. I’m just cranky from all the troubleshooting. I really thought I had this down semi-permanently a couple weeks ago.
I’m really trying to remember what I did, but I got steam playing ball with my NTFS drives without issue…
Both on steamdeck using an SD card formatted to NTFS, and on a manjaro/windows dual boot with an NTFS shared drive…
Genuinely don’t remember how I did it… I want to say something to do with symlinks…
I assume you’ve come across and tried this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows
Yeah. It was working for me for a while, and then some combination of some drives refusing to mount and some Nvidia driver issues ended up in a state where it doesn’t anymore.
I tried removing all related Steam packages and starting over but it didn’t quite do it, and I draw the line at reinstalling the entire OS. I could do a more thorough scrub and start over step by step, but man…
Hence the cranky stuff.
No legitimate complains allowed. Didn’t you hear that Linux is perfect and there’s absolutely nothing that needs improvement?
Maybe don’t use proprietary Microsoft formats on other operating systems
Ah, here we go again.
Gotta keep Windows for work reasons, I’m not rebooting every time I want to play a game and there are terabytes of stuff in there I’m not duplicating.
So yeah, I’m going to use whatever format works on both (which at this point is MS’s option, I’d take a good ext4 implementation on Windows, too).
And, you know, if that isn’t an option then maybe Linux isn’t ready? Maybe that cue card had stuff written on both sides, eh?
Seriously, what’s with the Linux community defaulting to “oh, you tried to do this officially supported thing on Linux? You idiot”. If I’m not supposed to use NTFS on Linux maybe don’t include a driver for it that mounts all my Windows drives out of the box. In the meantime I’ll continue my entirely unreasonable expectation that built-in features of the OS actually work.
For the record, it is Steam that’s borked. The NTFS driver just randomly sets the dirty flag on the drives and forces me to manually clean them up every now and then. I could live with that if it was the only issue.