Hi all. I’ve used Linux off and on for almost two decades now but most recently in a VM. I’m thinking I might make the permanent switch sometime before Windows 10 EOL. My concern is that I have over 12TB of data spanned across many drives, all in the NTFS file system. How is NTFS compatibility nowadays? For a time, I remember it being recommended to mount NTFS as read only. It seems infeasible to convert my current data to a Linux filesystem. Thoughts?
Edit: I don’t have time to reply to everyone but thanks for the information and discussion. I’m looking to rearrange some things on my drives to free up one drive entirely and then perhaps give Fedora Linux another spin on a secondary drive along with Windows on another. If all goes well, maybe Windows will get the boot or um never booted again.
I have a 2TB ntfs drive where I store most of my files. In 1.5 years I have not had any issues with it. If you start with dual booting at first, you will need to turn off fast startup in windows so linux can mount the drives as writable. https://askubuntu.com/questions/70281/why-does-my-ntfs-partition-mount-as-read-only
I’ve booted into windows twice to play one game that initially didn’t run well with proton, but has since been fixed. I really ought to just ditch the dual boot setup and ntfs. But I digress.