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Separate drive for games while dual booting? (OSes - Games - Data) (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello Linux community,

I'm getting a 2TB pcie gen 4 SSD to replace a 1TB gen 3 SSD.

I'm going to start dual booting Linux (looking at Endeavouros because vibes), because it seems that sooner rather than later, Windows will be enshittified. I'm a beginner though in using Linux, only had a bit experience with Raspbian on a raspberry pi for a personal data server. I'm looking to game mainly on Linux, and slowly phase out Windows, eventually only for specific uses if any.

So the plan is: 2TB gen 4 - Win & Linux + general software (productivity, CAD, coding, etc.) 1TB gen 3 - Game library 2TB SATA HDD - Data, long term storage

So my goal to separate the game library is not for performance, but rather to utilize the available hardware, and organization.

Is there any downside to doing this? Are there known issues with Proton and Wine with this config? NVDIA GPU if that's relevant.

If you guys have experience or any input please help a dude out.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The main thing I would say is that you may run into issues if you want to run software from both OSes on the same partition. If both Windows and Linux are trying to execute or install programs on the same partition, they can end up messing with permissions for the other OS (mostly Windows messing with Linux). Reading and writing data should be fine, so intermingling storage shouldn't be a problem, but execution can be more complex.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I see...that could probably affect a shared steam library I guess? I'm aiming to use almost exclusively though, wish me luck!