• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    every answer online is to “just use NTFS, it’s good now”.

    The hell is it! MOST topics about using NTFS with Steam on Linux is do not use NTFS. I have no idea where you got that info from.

    I also tried moving one of my drives to ExFAT

    Just… why? Granted exFAT is more open than NTFS (did they completely open it, can’t remember, too lazy to check), but it’s also very lacking compared to other filesystems. It’s really just meant as a filesystem for removable media. Something that just about every system is capable of reading and writing to. Like a bare minimum amount of features all OSes can work with.

    If you really want to try this unholy union of a setup, maybe installing an open source filesystem onto Windows would work (very slightly) better.

    Now I’m in no way promising that this will work. Windows does a lot of crap at the I/I layer that complicates things, so you might still have issues. But I think it has a better chance than what you’ve already tried.