Drive ownership and launching games

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So on my ongoing journey to learn how to use Linux I decided to wack a few games on a pop laptop.

Although some work, with others I either find they fail to launch with no indication why (from steam and minigalaxy) and a few further from steam give the error: “steam error missing executable”

A few people have suggested this may be a permit issue but all the games are -rwxrwxr-x

so the next suggestion was drive access. The games are installed on the one drive i have in the system (obviously used for boot too)

Now here is where my ignorance may bite me in the bum. I found the option to “Take ownership” presumably by my user account of /dev/data/root
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Is this a monumentally stupid idea, and if so why?

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i haven’t encountered such an issue with gaming on linux, but i don’t use PopOS. where are your steam games installed? should be something like ~/SteamLibrary or something. if you go into steam, and then your library, and click on the game so that the page opens, then on the right side is a gear icon, click that and go to properties, on the left of that screen find local files, and then click browse. it will open a file manager window to that directory.

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They are loaded from that partition of the main drive (Boot/OS drive)

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that is fine, however you should only need to worry about the actual steam files. just doing like you asked could break things, but i can’t give a definitive yes/no on that. if you actually DO have a permissions issue it would be in the steam game files, and you would “reclaim ownership” in the directory that opens following the steps i listed above.

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Checking the files of the game and of steam I (The user) am the owner so that is not it unfortunately.

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have you checked the protondb page for the ones that fail to launch?

We might not be able to help, but if you lost a list, or a couple, perhaps someone might have found it, or later stumble upon it from the internet

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If this is a permissions/mounting issue, can you post the output of mount, ls -lah /mnt, ls -lah /media/${USER}/, and cat /etc/fstab? I’m not sure what the “Take Ownership…” button does, but can you run ls -lah /dev/data/root?

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