I know this is a pretty common question, but the Google results don’t seem to offer a good solution and are mostly aimed at people who already know Linux.

I am looking to switch from Windows, where I have my OS and whatever big game I’m currently playing on my 128GB SSD, and everything else (games, most software, documents, ect.) on my 2TB HDD. ELI5, How would I replicate this on Linux? I’m planning on installing Mint, but am open to using Bazzite if it offers any additional tools for this sort of this.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🧩 🧠 🖥️@feddit.dk
    2·
    16 days ago

    I can only speak for myself on how I’d do this, but I’d dedicate the non-SSD for /home which avoids most of your headaches. For games on your SSD drive you could just make a dedicated /games folder on your root partition.

    Personally I’m lucky as I have a 2 TB main SSD (NVMe), so I don’t have to choose. And then 2x4TB for storage, backups, linux ISOs etc.
    Obviously you don’t want “just buy a bigger SSD” answer, but I’d definitely consider saving up for that.