We use btrfs for the / partition and xfs for any data partitions. Has served us well, the snapshot feature saves us some valuable time when an update goes awry.
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NTFS Usally for windows,ext4 for linux,btrfs to install linuz on,vfat/fat32 for cross platform compatibility
dual boot NixOS and FreeBSD on a single drive, ext4 on Nix and ZFS on FreeBSD. each partition has its own boot, swap and root, all encrypted
btw, OP wrote that FAT32 is limited, isn't it the default fs for the boot partition? can other fs like ext2/3 be used?
Btrfs because it sounded cool when I first read about it and worked fine so far :3
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ext4 because I value my data and don't want to lose it. I used to mess about with ZFS for mass storage but it's a university course to learn how to use and have decent performance.
I used to use XFS, but ext4 caught up.
And I used to use XFS... on something other than Linux.
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Most of my drives are EXT4, but I started using BTRFS a couple years ago and will be using it on all new installs from now on. I really like being able to make snapshots and compression reduces the install size quite a bit.
Every photocopy machine I've come across that accept USB sticks do not support exFAT, so what I would do with my USB stick is to split it into two partitions, one FAT32 and the rest exFAT.
Btrfs on my Linux desktops and laptops, ZFS on my server, APFS on my Apple devices I guess
EXT4 on PC, ZFS on my server and APFS on my mac
Depends on the device and the use case, mostly FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, EXT4