Save disk space for your games: BTRFS filesystem compression as alternative to CompactGUI on Linux

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  • CompactGUI

    Discontinued Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI] (by ImminentFate)

    • So, there are programs for Шindoшs like CompactGUI or Compactor that can compress files or folders on NTFS partition using filesystem's capabilities of that. It's very good for some cases and can even make games load faster, especially huge ones that need to read a lot of data from disk. See this table for reference: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14CVXd6PTIYE9XlNpRsxJUGaoUzhC5titIC1rzQHI4yI

  • lzbench

    lzbench is an in-memory benchmark of open-source LZ77/LZSS/LZMA compressors

    • Are you sure about that? That's not what I see on https://github.com/inikep/lzbench and I tried to run that myself, although I have no idea which lzo to try so I went with what seemed the fastest...

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