Migrating Windows 10 -> Pi

Yes, it’s simple like that, but there are few gotchas:

  • if you migrating from Windows GUI - move data to subfolder “storage”;
  • the NTFS is not native for Linux, it’s working slower in a few times and will have corruptions during the work, especially if NTFS was used on Windows 10 - MS uses special features such as compression and deduplication by default, which have a limited support under Linux without special tuning, as result - you may lose data because of incompatibility.

At the moment I have only negative experience working with NTFS on Linux: Moving from Windows to Ubuntu and back