This reminds me of how much I hate the fact that we haven’t had a PROPER portable file system that is truly portable, for nearly 20 years.
FAT32/ExFAT is fine, but simply lack a ton of features to be truly a modern portable FS. It’s fine if you want to drag around a few files, but for more complex tasks, it doesn’t have the right setup.
Ext4 is starting to show its age.
BTRFS could be the answer but both Microsoft and Apple are shitheads about filesystem drivers so it’s super hard to integrate with them.
Let’s not even talk about how closely Apple tries to guard HFS+/AppleFS, default drivers on any commercial OS will be a hurdle.
And Microsoft… third time trying to make ReFS happen while NTFS withers away, ancient, impossibly unusable for modern tasks due to its architecture, and licensed in a way as if someone would actually want to steal the crap functionality implemented in it.
I just hope their mega-city bankrupts them to hell and back, twice.