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hirak99 / steam_deck_encryption

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Use a common location for Steam UI #4

Open hirak99 opened 11 months ago

hirak99 commented 11 months ago

Add optional instructions on moving .local/share/Steam into a common directory, keeping only user configurations and games per the encrypted and unencrypted directories.

Benefits -

  1. Should save about 3G of space.
  2. SteamUI updates will be needed only once.

Risks -

  1. Leaking information to unencrypted partition.
    • We may need to know which directories are user-specific and which are not, very accurately. The directories files which are specific to users, within ~/.local/share/Steam, may include
      • config/
      • userdata/
      • steamapps/
      • appcache/ ?
      • friends/ ?
      • log/ ?
      • local.vdf ?
    • Alternatively, we may choose to only keep directories we are very sure to be sharable in common. This would include ubuntu_*/ directories.
  2. Increased chance of breaking SteamUI updates.