With the advances in gaming on Linux in recent years, it is so tempting to switch full time. I would absolutely love to, but I am a Game Pass Ultimate subscriber and it is where I play a lot of my games on PC. I know you can use the cloud version, but I cannot stomach streaming games in their current state, so it is a no go. A large portion of my Steam library is compatible, but anytime I have done an install I end up giving in and going back to Windows for games.

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    1 year ago

    NTFS is fine with Linux, but any new OS tends to need you to install things again. There used to be a way to zip all of your Steam downloads for a new install, but I can’t seem to find any instructions that still work.

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      1 year ago

      I think the option is under Steam > Backup and Restore Games. I successfully backed and restored some back ups I had made about a year ago with that method.

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        1 year ago

        I think you’re right. I’ve used this before as well, but I was thrown because my Linux Steam only has “Restore Game Backup” as an option in the menu. I wasn’t sure whether something had changed, or if this is a Steam for Linux peculiarity.