@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world I should clarify that was me pulling the path from memory. So might not be 100% accurate but it explains how the path works with proton/wine when using steam.
Essentially WINE creates a windows styled directory, with all the core folders, and then the emulator uses this as it’s root directory.
Documents is a great example. On Linux the document path is
/home/<USER>/Documents.
On windows it’s
C:\users\<USER>\documents
If we use the default wine settings, the path for the wine documents folder on Linux is
/home/<USER>/.wine/drive_c/users/<USER>/documents
Any program running in wine will only see the files from drive_c and down, emulating how a windows environment would work.
Happy to answer any questions if that isn’t clear. Feel free to DM.
Any idea how proton handles this for windows only games running on linux? Where is My Documents mapped to?
In a Wine/Proton prefix stored in
compatdata. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Proton-FAQ#where-are-my-saved-games-located@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world I should clarify that was me pulling the path from memory. So might not be 100% accurate but it explains how the path works with proton/wine when using steam.
Essentially WINE creates a windows styled directory, with all the core folders, and then the emulator uses this as it’s root directory.
Documents is a great example. On Linux the document path is
On windows it’s
If we use the default wine settings, the path for the wine documents folder on Linux is
Any program running in wine will only see the files from drive_c and down, emulating how a windows environment would work.
Happy to answer any questions if that isn’t clear. Feel free to DM.