I saw this post on reddit and im banned there so I figured I'd post here for anyone who sees this and considers it.
I've directly tried this before, it was close to a year ago though or maybe longer so maybe things changed. But I've noticed when you try to launch a game that was previously running through wine on windows instead, it can completely stop the game from launching with wine in the future unless you reinstall the game (or maybe change install drive in steam?) or do some other fix im unaware of.
That's not a problem for everyone, if you just wanna use that specific game only on windows then you're fine, but i thought this should still be kept in mind in case people decide to do this to compare performance etc.
and also in order to run games off an ntfs drive you just need to set drive permissions in your fstab. Im on the shitter rn so maybe once im back at my pc ill grab the options and edit them into this. Sometimes the drive will stop giving proper access to it and all you need to do is run fsck on the windows drive then it should work on linux properly again its just some dumb windows shit.
EDIT: uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133 these are the options to add to your fstab, replace uid and gid with your user id and group id of your user account. after that games should work fine on ntfs.
i used to have an entire drive that was ntfs just to store stuff between windows and linux now its just bcache formatted to xfs though cuz i never touch windows really.
Good point. Don't dual boot. It's only a matter of time till Windows borks up your MBR. Go full Linux.
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If you still have an MBR you have bigger issues. Working with ESPs in a GPT partitioned disk is much more stable.
this has in fact happened i fixed it so it didnt cause any problems but it was definitely fuckin annoying
It is actually impressive how Windows Update not only breaks Windows, but also other OSes on completely different drives
(Yes it broke my dual booted Linux, and then somehow even broke Linux again even after I moved it to a completely separate drive)
I dual booted for a year before this happened twice in the span of one month. Windows literally just deleted the fucking drive partitions with linux.
Nuked that shit OS in an instant.
I have dual booted since 2004 and this has never happened to me. Since 2016 I also didn't take any precautions like I used to.
How about dual boot, but the Windows OS is never online?
I used to be Linux only, but after I've got a new machine with Win11 preinstalled, I went dual boot " justfor now until I got all my apps running on Linux". Well, it's been a while and I still didn't figure out how to run some apps, so dual boot turned out to be a bit more permanent.
However, since I don't have WiFi and Windows starts sucking my mobile data once connected, I established a strict 'Windows must never be connected to my hotspot' policy. So it never updates.
I still plan to go back to Linux only, because I just like open source and dislike Windows for spyware and thinking it would be smarter than the user (which in my case is probably true, but still, I take my pride in being able to screw up my own OS if I make a mistake). But at the moment I'm out of ideas for certain things not running on Linux, so my machine is still punished with a secundary Win OS.
What if they're on separate disks?