I have confirmed a bug in the NTFS driver of recent debian Linux, specifically Ubuntu 24 and zorin 17.2

Trying to back up windows files onto it from the system disk freezes my PC. Dunno if it is the USB C interface, but I have confirmed it probably is mainly NTFS driver

Reformat the drive as ext4 and try duplicating the files from a windows system drive, onto ext4, no problem.

NTFS = Not Totally Fucking Stable

It's also abominable at writing lots of small files... Duplicating my 25gb of source code stash takes longer than copying 500gb of flac files

Windows is a dumpster fire and I won't be surprised when they change the FS in the future. The ACL it uses is also excessively complex. This is why I'm making a backup... Stupid thing is trying to fix changes I made in the user profile library directories and breaks the whole installation.

Backing up so I can do a clean install on my nice fast nvme m.2 interface.

So glad I figured out I can do proper Go dev on windows including the gcc toolchain and bash.

Msys2 is clunky but better than wsl2 for my needs.