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Re:Windows 10 Review by sytelus on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:14AM (#10128003)
Biggest hurdle I found moving to other OSes were bunch of NTFS formatted external hard drives with TBs of my data. How do you use them from *nix/Mac? On Mac NTFS were readonly unless you install 3rd party stuff but even then there were several problems sharing on network. Reformatting dozen hard drives to new file system was just too much work.
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Re:Windows 10 Review by Zardoz84 on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:09AM (#10128160)
NTFS on GNU/Linux was rw without any issue from years ago.

I have a big partition with my user data on a NTFS partition that I shared across Windows 8.1 and Kubuntu 15.04 without any issue. The only problem that I could have is that if I unplug the computer on Windows, I need to reboot on Windows to mark it-self as safe, so Linux can mount it again without any warning message.

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Re:Windows 10 Review by erik14th on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:49AM (#10128099)
On Linux I use NTFS-3G[0]. Never had a problem.

[0]http://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/

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Re:Windows 10 Review by malbs on Thursday August 27, 2015 @03:17AM (#10128009)
Last year I bought a Synology NAS w/ 12 TB (9tb usable) and copied most of my data to it. So data wasn't a problem. Bonus now is I can use NFS!
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