I have a question and couldn’t find an answer to it already on this forum, are world and character saves compatible between linux and windows versions of the same release? I’m planning on swapping to linux so I’d like to know if I could keep my saves.
They should be. I haven’t heard anything indicating direct compatibility problems.
As far as I know, all the data is in the JSON format, which means code has to interpret it to read it, and it also means OS specific data formats aren’t used.
There are some things that cause trouble, such as issues with non US character sets, and similar things (I think there are still issues with “,” vs “.” as decimal separator, and that this affects saves), but those aren’t directly related to specific operating systems.
If you use some more obscure version of *x you can get into trouble getting the game to run due to missing stuff in the *x environment, but that’s about getting the game to run, not save compatibility once you actually get the game to work.
Thank you! That’s really nice to know. I might update this if I run into any issues or remember to say it if it just works.