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Filesystem doesn’t really matter once you have a reliable, redundant off-site backup and recovery plan set up and tested.

Really, use what fs feels best for you. And do your backups.

Did I mention backups are important?

Search amazon for “shoes, size 13”, you’ll get anything but shoes in a proper size

“Hey Jimmy, look what I found in the trunk! Does this look like a dead judge to you?”

If windows is 100% nightmare, Ubuntu is like 5 to 10% that. While other distros are 0 to 1 percent.

Use whatever distro your buddies use.

For me that was Debian.