[Think there was an error, so reposted the comment.]

I did some testing in Nobara and it seems like there are various things that just seem to work correctly out of the box. Most of which would not run properly on Linux Mint no matter what I tried when I was using in for ~3-4 weeks.

I have decided to keep my current win10 install and just do a single Linux distro.

Here’s an updated potential setup for Win10/Nobara dual boot.

NVMe SSD:

1. Windows 10 partition (NTFS)
   • leaving already installed win10 as needed
2. Nobara Linux partition (BTRFS) – / & /home
   • Planning on using installer defaults for /boot, /, & /home. (I believe BTRFS is the default)
3. Data & Games partition (EXT4) – documents, games, & screenshots [connected to /home partition via symlink]
   • I have heard that EXT4 can have some advantages when running games via proton because BTRFS does not have case folding

SATA SSD:

1. Current partition (NTFS)
   • leaving it as is to perserve win10 file backups already there
2. Shared Data partition (exFAT) – music, video files, miscellaneous files like pictures, & an easy way to transfer files between win10/Linux
   • I would like to have a partition where both OSes can read these types of files easily (and so far it does not seem that there will be any significant performance issues like)
3. Linux backups partition (EXT4/BTRFS?)
   • would like to have space to backup system files, persumably with some kind of snapshots/rollback (or something like Timeshift on Linux Mint). Not sure what setup would make the most sense for Nobara yet

Question: Does anyone have any recommendations about how large the Nobara Linux partition (/ & /home) should be?

Since I do not plan to put every type of user data on it and will put all my games on the Data & Games partition (which will the largest amount of SSD space), I imagine that I could get away with a smaller than average / & /home partition here. Of course, I do want to be careful with this since running out of space on / & /home would be a massive headache.

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Nice, thanks for sharing.

I have not used exFAT before, so I did some research and it appears that exFAT does not support permissions or ownership. This sounds like it might be a good option for preventing one OS from messing around with the shared files and causing problems in the other OS.

Is there anything I should know before trying exFAT or any potential issues with running certain types of files/programs in Windows (since it defaults to NTFS)?