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One can comfortably use NTFS to read and write files on modern Linux distributions, but NTFS in general is not very suitable for running applications on or using for long-term usage between a dual-boot. Windows can and will often lock up NTFS partitions whenever it decides to hibernate rather than shutdown or sometimes suspend. NTFS while not being the greatest FS in general will also have worse performance on Linux than Windows. You can totally keep data stores on a Linux system, though you won't be able to make use of many of the advanced features some Linux/BSD-oriented filesystems offer. You can totally keep your drives as they are now, though if you intend to make a full switch you should consider migrating your drives' data over to more Linux-oriented filesystems (be it Btrfs, Xfs, or Ext4 is your choice depending on the features you want). In short, NTFS works but lacks a lot of features and performance that a more suitable filesystem would offer.
Windows ext4 compatibility is awful. I have my steam library on an ext4 partition, and occasionally boot to windows for specific games that don't work in linux. I tried mounting my ext4 partition using WSL (which worked fine), adding the steam lib folder to steam (worked fine), but all the games wanted to be verified before being run, and then i finally started one and got a BSOD. I thought maybe steam might complain that some files were wrong, but I didn't expect that lol. But at least steam tried, Epic launcher just flat out refused.
I haven't tried btrfs in windows, I see WinBtrfs exists, I wonder how well it works.
Windows doesn't have ext4 compatibility. When you mount a Linux partition through WSL you aren't actually mounting the drive itself, you are booting a VM up and piping all I/O through that VM back to an emulated disk device on the host windows OS
You would be better off having your steam library on an NTFS partition - at least your Linux OS can read the drive natively
Yeah, but then I end up in all the threads about steam for linux having issues with NTFS.
It doesn't have issues. It just doesn't work. You need your library on ext3/4 for the games to run on linux.
For what it's worth I've never had an issue launching a game from a library on my NTFS partition
I never managed, I used Linux Mint, but I didn't bother to try others.