Distros with good NTFS support?
Hi y'all. I've been running Arch on my daily driver laptop I use for word processing and some programming for about 2 years now, and I've finally decided to take the leap to switch my Gaming tower over to linux too. This isn't an impulse decision. I've had an eye on doing this for years, and the last time I made hardware upgrades, I did so with an eye to Linux comparability, so it's running a Radeon card and AMD CPU.
The one hurdle I'm dreading is that I have a lot of drives. This machine has been a bit of a ship of Theseus going back to 2015, and every time I've needed more storage, I've fallen for the same trap. Buy a big enough drive to consolidate the existing hardware into a single drive, plus the same again free. Then I get my PC on the bench and realise I have a free SATA port and cloning all the data sounds like a hassle, so I plug in the new drive and never actually consolidate down. As a result, I now have about 16TB of storage in the thing spread across about 6 drives maybe, some are mechanical HDDs, a few SSDs and at least one NVME.
Naturally, since this has been running windows for over a decade, these are all formatted NTFS. I would like to avoid messing with that if I can, mostly because it sounds like a real pain in the ass to move data around and do reformats. Thus I have two questions.
*1 - Is there a distro you would recommend to those who need NTFS support?*
*2 - Will this still be more hassle in the long run than migrating my files?*
Thanks in advance for your replies.