Fuck I got completely derailed as to what I wanted to ask
Linux experts in the fedi:
I'm struggling with my Steam Deck refusing to make a Steam library on my external hard drive's exFAT partition. It keeps giving me errors about the folder not being executable, but I can do all normal file system tasks in that folder and it is marked as read/write/executable in its properties.
Does anyone have any advice?
@LiquidParasyte
This is because fat derivatives including exfat do not support permissions - at all.
@crabbypup @LiquidParasyte
Also check the mount options for the filesystem, It could be mounted 'noexec' which would stop you from running any programs stored there.
@LiquidParasyte
As far as I'm aware, Steam only supports library folders on EXT3/4 and BTRFS.
Could be wrong, however.
@LiquidParasyte
Try with a disk formatted with ext4?