Comment on Nexus Mods with Amethyst-Mod-Manager (first steps starting guide)
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week agoHmm, the minimalism style might be preferred by some. This Amethyst tool seems pretty feature rich and complete, as far as I can tell (not that I have any experience with other tools so far). Just out of curiosity, I would like to know your opinion in case you try it out later. Would be interested into a follow up post, if I catch it.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Limo lacks key features like using symlinks instead of hsrdlinks
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I would have thought hardlinks are preferred. I chose softlinks, as this was the default option, but wondered which is better.
WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Hardlinks double the file size while soflinks are just info that shows to source much more efficent
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Hmm, hardlinks actually doesn’t double the file size, it just appears to be because each file looks like an independent file. The idea is to have one block for the data that is actually occupying the hard drive (or softdrive like ssd, I use softdrive jokingly), and have as many hardlinks as you want. The real data on disk gets deleted only if the last hardlink to it get removed. The only real limitation is, hardlinks can only be on the same drive.
So I understand the technical differences. Overall I would think hardlinks are better for this kind of thing, unless the files point to a different disk.