For the past decade or so I’ve mostly had a windows rig for gaming, and a dual boot laptop for travel/work (windows for Microsoft Access/PowerPoint, Ubuntu for everything else).

An odd issue I ran across was drive data format; it caused unending issues with steam/lutris when installing games running under wine/proton to drives formatted for windows (they’d just not run, no error messages till one day I tried to force it via terminal and got an error I could search via Google).

In the end I just partitioned off the drive to a native Linux format and that fixed it (had to dump the contents of the drive to a portable which took a while!), but now I am wondering if there was another alternate workaround?

  • rowinxavier@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 days ago

    NTFS does not have the permissions structures Linux native filesystems have. All sorts of problems come from using NTFS for executable files. That said, exfat seems better in a bunch of ways, maybe try that?

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Yes - there’s a workaround for this. I install games onto NTFS drives all the time. You just need to symlink the Steam compatibility folder on your main drive to the one on the NTFS drive. It’s called the Proton NTFS workaround

  • ragepaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Not what you asked, but i switched my wife to OnlyOffice and she can’t find much difference betweenit and MS. For myself and most importantly, I switched my work system to OnlyOffice and my coworkers haven’t had any issues with files I shared with them.

    • Alex Crosby@datasci.social
      1·
      6 days ago

      @ragepaw @HexesofVexes I have noticed some formatting and sizing differences, do you usually create in OpenOffice and pass to word users or the other way around? Which format do you use to interop? I’d love my coworkers to ditch MS Word.

      • ragepaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        OnlyOffice, not Open Office. OnlyOffice strives for Office compatibility.

        No issues yet whether I create docs, or other users do.

      • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        If you are talking about OpenOffice, that’s different. The other user suggested OnlyOffice, so try that and see if the formatting issues are there too.