....doesn't linux natively read exfat?

@apophis they're patented so not by default since it's not worth it

@eris dodged a bullet there (was trying to reformat a really old thumb drive that was in fat16 that kept recording wrong last modified dates... ended up doing ext4 and deciding i'll email myself if ever i need to put that shit anywhere on windows ever again)

@apophis you need fuse tools for it

@apophis yes, but it's Linux, you better check with who built your kernel.

@apophis i think the option is marked experimental in the kernel

@tisanae @apophis just pulled up menuconfig, not a word about it being experimental. Linux 6.15.4

@ekg @apophis sorgy i've not configured my kernel in a while

@tisanae @apophis nothing to be sorry about, unfortunately most distros aren't on the latest kernel. It's definitely possible that OP is running a kernel before support was merged.

@ekg @tisanae i actually didn't even realize compatibility was a relatively new thing, OP was just a subpost of someone else who *did* need to install additional software

@apophis @tisanae just looked it up my self. Would be very confused if I had been in that situation.