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Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.

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[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's best practice to keep it separate, and that mostly just has to do with how the different file systems are handled.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This. The problem is Windows can't read ext4 or Btrfs, and though Linux can handle NTFS, it isn't great.

When I was first switching to Linux a few years ago, I did have a shared library using NTFS. It mostly just worked, but the occasional game would refuse to start, and I had no issues once I was no longer using NTFS.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.

And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don't.

[–] flux@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yah. I split the drive so we will see how it goes. But memory is cheap. I'm not messing around with game saves that could possibly take away hours of my progress.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I think you mean storage. Memory is, at the moment, oddly expensive.