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 have backups also, used to be timeshift but that one was just way too time consuming (ironic with the name). Now I just run a borg script that take a backup every day and keeps 1 per month, week and last couple days.
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.
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 have backups also, used to be timeshift but that one was just way too time consuming (ironic with the name). Now I just run a borg script that take a backup every day and keeps 1 per month, week and last couple days.
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.