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Help Figuring Out Storage (Noob Question)
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I have used NTFS on my external drives on Linux for longer than I care to admit with absolutely no issue.
It works, but performance suffers for games etc.
My main use case for it is storage, so it makes sense that I never noticed any issues.
As have I, but I wouldn't say its always been no issue. But there have been known performance issues, and filesystem locking issues when dual booting (I know, not OPs concern). I think its worth a warning at least, so OP doesn't go in blind.
They rewrote the in-kernel support for NTFS a while back, and it works much better now. The old driver lacked proper write support and was kind of questionable in general.