Hmmm, that's a risky proposition at best. I'd wager Steam will keep only a single-system version of a game in a folder anyway, so if you boot into Windows after using Linux, it'll at the least delete all Linux-specific files (in extreme cases the entire game?) and re-download the Windows ones. Of course, after you boot into Linux, it'll do the reverse.

So... not a practical proposition any way you look at it. :-(

Quoting: GuestDual booting is for beginners, be pro and use single os only.

Okay this is getting embarassing. For you I mean. I'm not sure if you're trying to troll or just doing Linux evangelism wrong, but please stop.

One of the reasons GamingOnLinux has come as far as it has is because we're not a venue for zealots and elitists, but a relaxed community of Linux gamers of all creeds. It's nice that you're happy with Linux as your one and only OS (and so am I), but let others decide for themselves. They'll see the light some day without us beating them over the head with it.

You may be able to do share things on a per game basis. Pick the data directory of a large game, check if the files are identical and symlink the Windows version to the Linux version. That saves space and is relatively safe. I suspect you will get updates twice though.

Personally, I started saving SSD space by deleting/installing games as I play them. A slight bit of bandwidth abuse. :D

Yeah, I wouldn't share a folder between Windows and Linux Steam instances. Saying that, the few Windows games I play don't have Linux offerings, and there is no need to share them. I'd also keep separate my native Linux Steam games and any WINE Steam games.

Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: GuestDual booting is for beginners, be pro and use single os only.

Okay this is getting embarassing. For you I mean. I'm not sure if you're trying to troll or just doing Linux evangelism wrong, but please stop.

One of the reasons GamingOnLinux has come as far as it has is because we're not a venue for zealots and elitists, but a relaxed community of Linux gamers of all creeds. It's nice that you're happy with Linux as your one and only OS (and so am I), but let others decide for themselves. They'll see the light some day without us beating them over the head with it.

This x over 9000.

We are a community, we aren't die hard zealots and we don't like that kind of behaviour here.

Dual booting isn't the devil, sometimes it's necessary. Just because we love Linux and want it to succeed as a platform, doesn't necessarily mean we can't use other platforms too.

Anyway, debianxfce, your attitude is annoying me. Please stop, don't derail forum posts with zealotry.

debianxfce is a troll, he thinks XFCE is the best thing ever, and everything else is crap and that people who use Gnome are retarded.

So I guess the people who use Windows in his eyes are not much smarter than a really old can of spam.

Back on topic;

So I normally would launch the Windows version of Wine to use that directory, for some reason I did it through the Linux Client, which caused all my ills. But I really wish Valve would fix that, seeing as how it'd be nice to have a central storage so that no matter what the data is synced in there.

For example, I've also managed to tell Steam at one point to install the data files for Morrowind, that shows up as 'installed' in Linux because I also added the non-steam launcher for openmw.

Would be nice if the debian 'game-data' package had more of a direct way of getting data files through Steam.

thanks for the info