My expectation is that game dependencies should get installed to the same Steam library folder as the game, but I personally don't have insight into how Steam makes that choice currently.

Why would that be expected when it literally leads to broken installs? I had to delete the entire ~/.local/share/Steam directory and restart my install from scratch just to be able to chose to have Proton and Runtimes go to the correct drive (that I had already selected as the default install location prior to attempting to launch a game)

Closing in favor of the older issue reports.

I believe this issue should be re-opened as it's about a more generic problem, those older issues are all mainly about different problems (ie. uninstalling components, or specifically about NTFS).

My expectation is that game dependencies should get installed to the same Steam library folder as the game, but I personally don't have insight into how Steam makes that choice currently.

This assumption is wrong because it does not do that, for me (running on Linux Manjaro) Steam forces a storage library in my /home and it does not let me remove it, I have manually created a different location where I would like everything to be installed, and this is what I have marked as the default, all of my games do default to installing there.

However, Steam still makes all of the components (Steamworks Common Redistributables; Proton versions; Stream Linux Runtimes and probably other things) install onto the /home drive by default (and again, Steam will not let me remove this drive). I am forced to let them finish downloading onto the /home before I can tell Steam to move them which is quite annoying.

Additionally, the Steamworks Common Redistributables cannot be moved, it errors with:

Moving content for the following apps has failed :
- Steamworks Common Redistributables : has shared content

This is also annoying because well, I would like to have just one steam library (but in a location of my own choosing, not the one that Steam forces to exist), but this component is forced to exist on a specific drive, I can only assume that this is because Steam has hardcoded the location of it, which is obviously just bad practice and should be fixed.

I believe this issue should be re-opened as it's about a more generic problem, those older issues are all mainly about different problems (ie. uninstalling components, or specifically about NTFS).

I believe you should not be causing email and notification spam on 3 year old issues. I do no longer have an NTFS drive and thus cannot reproduce my own issue report, thus it should remain closed.

should not be causing email and notification spam

_{I would also love to know how one comment on a relevant issue is considered spam...}

@kisak-valve can this thread be locked? I am not interested in entertaining this childish conduct