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Sure, if you have many Wine prefixes they take up a lot of disk space but Wine compresses wery well, you can reclaim %75-90 disk space by just using compression and I am not even going into deduplication. For shader caches I don't have much to recommend but they are usually around %10 of the game's size and a shader cache must exist for Windows as well (idk how large it is) so Linux is not at disadvantage here. Manager applications like Heroic, Lutris etc. don't actually take up a significant amount of disk space.
I have installed a full fat Linux distribution (Pop OS) to a 16 GiB thumb drive and have more than half free space. I can install Steam and HOI4 with all DLC and still have plenty of disk space available.
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No, but it does allow me to have a no-nonsense, pure 64 bit setup tailored exactly to my wants and needs, for normal use. I play some native games and open source games there, but the gaming system needs a lot more libraries, including all the multilib builds of everything and a lot of things that make me want to barf.
I don't like eating dogfood, so I make a lot of work for myself on both setups, too.
It would actually save disk space to just use Windows for games and have only have one custom Linux setup. However, I would just buy another 2 Tb NVME if I need more storage for games. I don't need to have them all installed at once, though. I'm actually having to remove games I'm not playing because I've filled up a 2 Tb dedicated to games (Steam is installed there, my Lutris wine prefixes are stored there etc.)
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I was frustrated and may have exaggerated the figures a "little bit".
Will check how much disk space Flatpak is using,
and if I have a few GB taken up by SystemD error logs,
or installed more games then I intended.
Have not played around with BTRFS, Will have to give it a go.
Why didn't Valve use BTRFS for the SteamDeck?
They need the raw speed? Which EXT3 / EXT4 is better at?
Might end up doing a clean install.
Thanks for all the constructive critique.
Last edited by Craggles086 on 24 January 2023 at 1:10 am UTC
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Don't use EXT4. XFS is better if you need a classic type filesystem.
Last edited by Shmerl on 24 January 2023 at 2:14 am UTC
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if we use native apps we dont need more space than actually game requires.
also ext4 rulez.
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