• HollowNaught@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Does anybody know the best way to transfer all my files to Linux? I dabbled in it a bit, but I was a little worried I’d have to reinstall everything, considering I had to make a (relatively small) partition using my unused d drive space

    Is there a way to transfer ~2TB worth of steam games, outside of uninstalling then reinstalling them?

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Consider this: why do you have 2TB of games installed?

      IDK what your gaming habits are, but I find myself bouncing between a few at most, 1 big AAA at most, and found keeping the rest… to be blunt, data hoarding.

      I suppose the only exception is modded setups, it even then I always redo them anyway since the base games, modding frameworks and mods get updated over time.

      You can redownload what you use, progressively.

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        37 minutes ago

        I have very bad internet, so I tend to prefer to keep my games installed, rather than wait 24 hours to download a 60gb game again. I still log on to things like MH world or DJMax respect V every now and then for a few rounds, they’re fun to go back to

        Similarly, like you said, I have a lot of mods installed. To the point where my backup mod folder on my external hdd is about 100GB in size, so I’m a little worried about spending hours tracking down all my mod lists again

        I’ve transferred about 400GB in (legally sourced) roms to my steam deck, so I thought there’d be a way to do this, but oh well

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      23 hours ago

      Just copy C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/ to /home/yourname/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/ and Steam will recognize those games are already present when you try to download them.

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      18 hours ago

      Some of those games have native Linux build, and even though Windows version will work under Proron, native version will work better, worth checking out.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        This is not always true. I measured that the Proton version of Rimworld and Stellaris, for instance, are massively faster than the Linux one.