What's your process for keeping track of multiple hard disks and naming conventions etc.?
You may use your distro's GUI file manager. It probably has all the same stuff as Windows explorer. Then you have "Documents" and stuff, to organize yourself.
The paths you need to follow are found, I imagine, the same way as on Windows, by using a search engine. Maybe Linux complicates that, but I dont' think so as far as once you're inside the Steam game folder.
I searched "steam linux fallout 4 mod folder" and came up with stuff.
Oh that's cuz it's using Wine. Wine makes things look like Windows to the app. The game will want to install to a C: or D: or whatever, so wine needs to emulate that.
I have all my games in a dedicated games drive I mount in my home. Seems to be the most sane thing to do so I don't have to juggle with general download folder etc for space.
I know, it's an unsatisfying answer. But there's no technical reason why you couldn't. I think the default is ~/games/whatevername and you're free to install games to any mounted file system.
Personally, for my entertainment, I like being able to just back up my home directory and not think too much about or keep track of other places my stuff can be. Is this efficient? Probably not, but sometimes a decrease in cognitive load for years to come is worth the 1 or 2% reduction in gaming performance from sharing drive bandwidth with your OS today.
I don't think it really matters any more whether you use a physical HD or a partition on the drive. Except inasmuch as you might want to physically separate your stuff. so just depends on how your workflow is. i don't often install extra hds any more; just use bigger ones.
You may use your distro's GUI file manager. It probably has all the same stuff as Windows explorer. Then you have "Documents" and stuff, to organize yourself.
The paths you need to follow are found, I imagine, the same way as on Windows, by using a search engine. Maybe Linux complicates that, but I dont' think so as far as once you're inside the Steam game folder.
I searched "steam linux fallout 4 mod folder" and came up with stuff.
Replace "C:" with "whatever folder is under Configure - Game options - Wine prefix/drive_c" and everything else works the same as it did on Windows.
Oh that's cuz it's using Wine. Wine makes things look like Windows to the app. The game will want to install to a C: or D: or whatever, so wine needs to emulate that.
I have all my games in a dedicated games drive I mount in my home. Seems to be the most sane thing to do so I don't have to juggle with general download folder etc for space.
It's up to you.
I know, it's an unsatisfying answer. But there's no technical reason why you couldn't. I think the default is ~/games/whatevername and you're free to install games to any mounted file system.
Personally, for my entertainment, I like being able to just back up my home directory and not think too much about or keep track of other places my stuff can be. Is this efficient? Probably not, but sometimes a decrease in cognitive load for years to come is worth the 1 or 2% reduction in gaming performance from sharing drive bandwidth with your OS today.
I don't think it really matters any more whether you use a physical HD or a partition on the drive. Except inasmuch as you might want to physically separate your stuff. so just depends on how your workflow is. i don't often install extra hds any more; just use bigger ones.