Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by KyleGospo on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:18PM
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I can only speculate Valve's reasoning, but there are a very select few games that require actual case folding and not the simulated case folding that wine offers. I know of literally only one.
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Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by nephyrin on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:52PM
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SteamOS dev here - lack of case folding is one (but solvable, we supported development on native case folding for ext4), but general stability issues are the main concern. Our testing with btrfs has not been promising for deploying it in a zero-maintenance manner to many users and finnicky SD cards and have it Just Work, but we're keeping an eye on things and weighing where we could contribute.
Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by jonny_eh on Monday January 01, 2024 @12:42AM
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Is there a way for adventurous users to opt into using BTRFS on SD cards?
Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by bsimpson on Monday January 01, 2024 @05:07AM
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Have you done any performance testing with btrfs compression?
I have a Legion Go. I don't have the specs handy now, but the SSD was rated fast enough that I suspected compression would harm my overall performance.
Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by freedomben on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:41PM
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Can you help me with some searchable terms for learning about case folding? Is that something specific to games? Specific to disk formats?
Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by KyleGospo on Sunday December 31, 2023 @08:47PM
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It's a file system feature, all it means to be case folding is that capital and non-capital letters are treated the same, as NTFS does.
All Linux filesystems will by default allow "TEST" and "test" and "Test" to exist in the same folder, which no Windows application is ever intended to handle. Wine works around this by default.
Re:Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living ro...
by anticensor on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:59AM
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NTFS is also case sensitive, however case folding is done at search time according to default windows settings.
Windows apps are expected to handle case sensitivity gracefully in non-FAT filesystems.