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The lengths I've had to go to (on Windows, and on Ubuntu) to get games installed for multiple users is frankly ridiculous. I feel like I'm always fighting agai

The lengths I've had to go to (on Windows, and on Ubuntu) to get games installed for multiple users is frankly ridiculous. I feel like I'm always fighting against the OS just to share files amongst users. I suppose the answer is probably a deduplicating fs like zfs/btrfs - although, do they dedupe across users (that feels like an exploit route).

hnlmorg 2y ago
> I feel like I'm always fighting against the OS just to share files amongst users. I’m not really sure what the issue you’re having is from what you’ve shared. But if the files and have read permissions for the relevant users, groups, or even everyone, then it should “just work”. Perhaps the issue was with folder permissions? Hidden ACLs? Or shortcut icons? (the way Linux handles application icons is vastly over complicated in my personal opinion) > I suppose the answer is probably a deduplicating fs like zfs/btrfs - although, do they dedupe across users (that feels like an exploit route). Why would it be an exploit route? zfs and btrfs are CoW (copy-on-write) file systems which means if someone makes an edit on one copy, it wouldn’t edit both copies. Maybe you’re thinking of hard links? These aren’t limited to CoW file systems (eg supported by NTFS and ext4) and those could run into issues where one person could update someone else’s “copy”.