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[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Probably should make an actual post or google it myself, but is there a way I can convert to Linux and keep my windows files and transfer them across?

[–] drangus@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can copy them to a thumb drive or huck them in the cloud, install Linux, and then copy them over. There’s a few other ways if that doesn’t work for you.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That works thank you.

I was kinda hoping to have like a shared folder both systems could access but I figure that's to hard

[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not at all. Personally I like to have a shared data partition for my media files. Both OSes can use that just fine, if it's NTFS or exFAT formatted.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Cool, I'll look into it, cheers

[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What kind of files are you wanting to keep?

You can partition or preferably install a second drive and install Linux on that. You can then access your files on the other drive/partition and connect your Steam library to your existing library without any issues*. Want to go back to Windows? Just boot into it and your updated files will be there.

*Only thing is you'll need to either disable fast boot on Windows or shut down by using the restart option or else the Windows drive is locked to read only.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Word documents photos videos and such. Basically all the sbitbive hoarded over the years that i don't want to get rid of by accident

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Any way to do that other than backing them up to another machine/USB drive is too risky IMO.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

2 weeks ago I got a Steam survey on my Steam Deck. Hope it helped.