I’ve backed up many of the Steam games I had installed in Windows. Am I able to use these on Linux or do I need to re-download them?
I’ve backed up many of the Steam games I had installed in Windows. Am I able to use these on Linux or do I need to re-download them?
Yes. I transfer games between a Windows NVME, Linux NVME, and a SteamDeck all the time. You still have to “download” them but steam will detect already existing files and check to see if everything is there.
AFAIK you can skip the “download” by also copying the corresponding
.acf
file in the parent directory.