• chaogomu@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

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

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          1 year ago

          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.

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        1 year ago

        Only if you have another place to hold it temporarily.

        You can’t really install linux onto an NTFS drive. So you have to wipe the NTFS partition and start over with something like EXT4… that will kill the games.

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      1 year 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.