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Comment by gjsman-1000

ext4 and Btrfs are only well supported on Linux; they are not universal standards.

NTFS was only supported well on Windows until recently; but extensions like NTFS Encryption (BitLocker) are still Windows only. Mac still does not let you write to an NTFS volume.

APFS and HFS+ are obviously Apple file systems.

FreeBSD does not support ext4 or Btrfs well; but instead prefers UFS2 or ZFS despite also being an open-source Unix-inspired OS.

The world runs on proprietary or non-universal file systems with CDFS (ISO 9660), FAT, and exFAT being the sole exceptions.

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