Might be a stupid question, but bear with me, I just started the transition to Linux!

I’ve been playing a game on Steam for some time now, and modding it was a huge hassle (not modding it per se, but rather make every mod work together, incompatibilities, merging, etc., you know the drill), so I’d rather NOT do that again from scratch (especially because the mod organizer tool I used is only for Windows, unless I can run that through Proton?); on the other hand, if I wait until I beat the game, it’s going to delay the move to Linux a lot, months.

I think most of the files needed to run the modded game lie in the game folder, some user settings needed for the mods to work correctly are in the game’s Documents folder; would I be able to just crudely copy-paste these two folders from Win to Linux? If yes, I guess I have to use an external drive to do so, since I can’t access each other OS’s partitions while I’m on one or the other, correct?

If you need more info feel free to ask; as I said I just started moving to Linix so I probably forgot important info! Thanks in advance

edit: don’t know if websearches return Lemmy threads, but just in case: I installed the game via Steam on Linux and launched it once through Proton. After that, I just copy-pasted the folders that cointan mods from the Windows drive to the Linux drive and then the game’s document folder as well (although this one doesn’t go into the Linux’s Documents folder, rather in a Documents folder inside the Steam directory of the game). Game boots with no script compiling errors (meaning everything went well with the simple copy-paste). Haven’t played yet apart from a quick load to confirm that mods were working, but usually if the game starts there won’t be problems down the line! Guess I can start booting Linux instead of Win for the most part! Thanks everyone for the help!

  • ddhEnglish
    18•10 months ago

    I can’t access each other OS’s partitions while I’m on one or the other, correct?

    Not entirely correct. Linux can read and write to NTFS partitions. However, probably a better idea, if you have three disks or partitions is to format a ‘data’ drive that Windows and Linux can share. The exFAT format might be preferred for this.

    • @bec@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      7•10 months ago

      I now know! Since I couldn’t see the Linux drive via Win I assumed it was the same the other way around

      Once I finally start to main Linux, I plan on organizing my drives better, especially for the shared drive!

      Thanks!

      • @c10l@lemmy.world
        12•10 months ago

        I’ve been using a btrfs partition for my games shared volume. Just install winbtrfs on Windows.

        I wouldn’t recommend ExFAT for anything other than a thumb drive used to exchange files between computers. It lacks many features of modern file systems which makes files on it a lot more susceptible to corruption.

        https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs

      • @akulium@feddit.de
        3•10 months ago

        I’m not sure whether it is a good idea for your mods, but in my Linux home folder I have a link to a folder of documents on my Windows drive that I want to be able to access from both.

        It was a symbolic link first, but I made a bind mount now which is treated more like a normal folder.

        • @bec@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          Thanks for the tip, I’ll keep it in mind for other games as the one I’m currently playing has a dedicated folder for mods in its own folder so I don’t think I need to do as you did. I’ll have to look into how to do that in case I need to in future. Thanks!