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That article explicitly says “for PC gaming”. If OP is using this drive for Plex, that’s perfectly supported in the kernel.
Totally agreed this may not be the best distro unless they also have another disk they want to use for gaming, but one benefit is that OP could rebaseline to another Universal Blue OS, or even back to Fedora SilverBlue.
Substitute "games" for "media" and the result is the same. Bazzite isn't incompatible with the games, its incompatible with the storage format Windows uses and this article was just using games as an example of an issue users might commonly come across.
Its the same the other way as well. Try to connect an Ext4 drive to Windows and it won't see it.
This is not correct.
The Linux kernel has had support for the NTFS file system since 2021. The issues detailed in the article you linked to explicitly refer to issues with Proton and Steam, which require characters that are illegal in the NTFS specification and symbolic links, which the spec does not support.
Sure, you may bump up against these limitations in other apps, but it is a hard crash in Steam and Lutris, which is why the distro has the article.
It is correct and is explicitly detailed here:
I dont see that mentioned anywhere in the article. Again its referring to gaming because there are probably a million PC gamers to every person hosting a media library, but it still uses all the same hardware in a similar fashion. This being isolated solely to game files makes little sense as an OS and filesystem see data as "bits" and "bytes" not "games," "movies," "pictures," and "programs" outside of file extensions which tell it which programs to use to interact with said data and how that data will be arranged within said file.
This is like claiming you can read Mandarin but only when certain topics are being discussed and not others even when the same words are being used.