Disclaimer: I am very new to Linux (1 week).
I have installed the Valve version of Steam on LMDE6. I have used Disks to automatically mount the NTFS drive I used with Windows (doesn’t hold bootloader, it is just for Steam library storage) at boot ( /media/[username]/Gaming ) and I made it the default library folder in Steam.
Running games works perfectly (actually, performance is surprisingly good), but I cannot install them due to a “disk write error”.
I looked for solutions and found this page, from which I understand that I need to change permissions to the mounting point, but when I do, using chown -R, I get a “Read-only filesystem” error for all files and folders.
I can see no options to fix this in Disks and I tried to edit fstab once, but it messed things up so badly I had to use the USB drive with the portable installer to fix things.
What’s with that disaster of colorized text?
Lemmy’s Web UI does something wonky and nonstandard with Markdown backtick-surrounded monospaced text. I assume that it’s some attempt to pretty-print code or something that nobody wants. Doing the four-space indent gets monospaced text and avoids it, but then you can’t do it inline with proportional text.
I just ignore the colorization. Hopefully someday they’ll just get rid of it.