My experience of using NTFS on Linux was downloading a torrent on a dual boot laptop and it shutting down due to overheating. This was more than a decade ago, so hopefully it’s a lot better by now.
Reading from NTFS is nearly flawless. Writing and actively using it is pretty bad occasionally though, to the point where steam doesn’t support it and recommends against it for game libraries on Linux.
That may be an old issue, but I just set up a couple of NTFS drive Steam libraries on Linux last week and it didn’t give me any errors or warnings about the drive format. But I did have big issues with the Flatpak edition of Steam - it couldn’t even write to a local second ext4 partition. Had to switch to .deb Steam install to fix all that
You might know this already, but some (all?) flatpaks are denied access to most drives in the system. I’ve used Flatseal to address that issue when it comes up, though there may be better ways.
Yes I did read up on that and tried using Flatseal for permissions granting, but it didn’t work so I didn’t troubleshoot it very far before doing to the .deb install
My experience of using NTFS on Linux was downloading a torrent on a dual boot laptop and it shutting down due to overheating. This was more than a decade ago, so hopefully it’s a lot better by now.
The heating feature is actually a critical part of my workflow.
I’ve been transferring files from old NTFS drives formatted for Windows on a Debian machine without issue.
Reading from NTFS is nearly flawless. Writing and actively using it is pretty bad occasionally though, to the point where steam doesn’t support it and recommends against it for game libraries on Linux.
That may be an old issue, but I just set up a couple of NTFS drive Steam libraries on Linux last week and it didn’t give me any errors or warnings about the drive format. But I did have big issues with the Flatpak edition of Steam - it couldn’t even write to a local second ext4 partition. Had to switch to .deb Steam install to fix all that
You might know this already, but some (all?) flatpaks are denied access to most drives in the system. I’ve used Flatseal to address that issue when it comes up, though there may be better ways.
Yes I did read up on that and tried using Flatseal for permissions granting, but it didn’t work so I didn’t troubleshoot it very far before doing to the .deb install