Warning!!! Let it be known that, I have corrupted these ssds twice after the setup because I incompetently unplugged them while they are still being read by the system. It was so bad the second time when I was in a rush to shoot the cover for this video that I unplug the enclosure when the Linux Mint was still running (in sleep mode), I spent 5+ hours the night before releasing this video trying to recover all the data using fsck, e2fsck and gparted on both of the external drives without any luck. I ended up installing popOS along with games on the 2TB drive now without using the 1TB anymore. Be careful before going this path. I have to download all these games, install them again and start them from beginning all over, which is way less ideal and cost me way longer than simply playing them on Steam.
Not too many people consider this, even if you have 1 disk, split it into 2 partitions, format the first one for the system (around 100gb) and the other space use for your documents and games. This way you can only keep formatting the first partition if something goes wrong or you distro hop. About the games, a quick and simple way to play and game you want, is to play the PS3 version of it, there is a RPCS3 emulator which lets you do this, the bad side of it is that there are visual glitches, poor performance, and you need a controller.
Good call, way better than me getting the USB ssd corrupted all the time. But my way would work without back up and restore the game saves all the time
Good point, I do understand what you both are saying here. But the issue is steam don't do cloud save for non steam games, I'll have to sync it myself somehow when swapping my system
transfer speed is usually measured in gigabits per second, not gigabytes. only RAM and nvme are having speeds in gigabytes range 10 Gbps = ~1 GBps = ~1000 MBps
You could also just install the games on the External Hard-drive, move your Wine Prefix and for example Lutris config to the External, and you can always just create a simple link to the home directory. But your aproche is also interesting
Thanks, your suggestions is pretty good, the simplest I found now is to just install the games on external drive and do the bottles back up and restore which will take less than 10 minutes each time
I used to run Linux Mint from an external USB drive and during installation the partitioning menu let me specify the drive to use for the boot loader (Grub). In later versions of Mint, this menu became less obvious, but it was always somewhere in an advanced or optional menu of the installer.
Warning!!!
Let it be known that, I have corrupted these ssds twice after the setup because I incompetently unplugged them while they are still being read by the system.
It was so bad the second time when I was in a rush to shoot the cover for this video that I unplug the enclosure when the Linux Mint was still running (in sleep mode), I spent 5+ hours the night before releasing this video trying to recover all the data using fsck, e2fsck and gparted on both of the external drives without any luck. I ended up installing popOS along with games on the 2TB drive now without using the 1TB anymore.
Be careful before going this path. I have to download all these games, install them again and start them from beginning all over, which is way less ideal and cost me way longer than simply playing them on Steam.
Not sure if it helps, but I have found btrfs way more reliable than ext4. Maybe it is something that you want to try for the next installations.
Couldn't agree more, after some study I already swap everything external to btrfs yesterday, thank you for the suggestion
i have a 512GB drive and 1TB drive in my Lenovo Legion 5. I install the OS on the 512GB and use the 1TB for my Steam Games Library
Not too many people consider this, even if you have 1 disk, split it into 2 partitions, format the first one for the system (around 100gb) and the other space use for your documents and games. This way you can only keep formatting the first partition if something goes wrong or you distro hop. About the games, a quick and simple way to play and game you want, is to play the PS3 version of it, there is a RPCS3 emulator which lets you do this, the bad side of it is that there are visual glitches, poor performance, and you need a controller.
Good call, way better than me getting the USB ssd corrupted all the time. But my way would work without back up and restore the game saves all the time
@@MumblingHugo or if u use steam u can just keep your games in a different partition.
Good point, I do understand what you both are saying here. But the issue is steam don't do cloud save for non steam games, I'll have to sync it myself somehow when swapping my system
transfer speed is usually measured in gigabits per second, not gigabytes. only RAM and nvme are having speeds in gigabytes range
10 Gbps = ~1 GBps = ~1000 MBps
Thanks for pointing it out, I always have trouble with this.
You could also just install the games on the External Hard-drive, move your Wine Prefix and for example Lutris config to the External, and you can always just create a simple link to the home directory. But your aproche is also interesting
Thanks, your suggestions is pretty good, the simplest I found now is to just install the games on external drive and do the bottles back up and restore which will take less than 10 minutes each time
I used to run Linux Mint from an external USB drive and during installation the partitioning menu let me specify the drive to use for the boot loader (Grub). In later versions of Mint, this menu became less obvious, but it was always somewhere in an advanced or optional menu of the installer.
Thanks, good to know
I have resigned from mint gaming, it was always unstable after installing gaming tweaks
Oh, right, I already swap it to Fedora, this video is no longer up to date