I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...
Unless you're using Linux on a virtual machine, installing the open-source OS is usually done via a USB drive. Because of this, you can burn an ISO to a USB drive, reboot the system, boot into the USB ...
Whatever the case, a portable Linux installation on a flash drive can be used in place of a normal storage drive in your PC.