I anticipated these issues and bought the ThinkBook with Windows 11 Pro. When installing Tumbleweed I squeezed ntfs and added btrfs:
thinkbook:~ # fdisk -l /dev/nvme0n1
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 476.94 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG MZAL4512HBLU-00BL2
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7DBBDC49-D9D4-495E-B5FD-53CAC1F4ED46
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 534527 532480 260M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 534528 567295 32768 16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3 567296 205367295 204800000 97.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 996118528 1000214527 4096000 2G Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 205367296 996118527 790751232 377.1G Linux filesystem
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
thinkbook:~ #
More user data sit on an external drive:
thinkbook:~ # inxi -D
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 4.1 TiB used: 2.64 TiB (64.3%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZAL4512HBLU-00BL2 size: 476.94 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT4000P3 SSD8 size: 3.64 TiB type: USB
thinkbook:~ #
thinkbook:~ # btrfs filesystem usage -T /Crucial/
Overall:
Device size: 3.64TiB
Device allocated: 2.62TiB
Device unallocated: 1.01TiB
Device missing: 0.00B
Device slack: 0.00B
Used: 2.62TiB
Free (estimated): 1.02TiB (min: 525.38GiB)
Free (statfs, df): 1.02TiB
Data ratio: 1.00
Metadata ratio: 2.00
Global reserve: 512.00MiB (used: 0.00B)
Multiple profiles: no
Data Metadata System
Id Path single DUP DUP Unallocated Total Slack
-- --------- ------- -------- --------- ----------- ------- -----
1 /dev/sda1 2.58TiB 44.00GiB 80.00MiB 1.01TiB 3.64TiB -
-- --------- ------- -------- --------- ----------- ------- -----
Total 2.58TiB 22.00GiB 40.00MiB 1.01TiB 3.64TiB 0.00B
Used 2.57TiB 21.21GiB 336.00KiB
thinkbook:~ #
Booting into Windows 11 is PITA. However every other year some appliance wants to talk to Windows only. A few years ago I shredded the flash storage of my Garmin FR735XT.
I went to a friend of mine and tried to recover from the mishap. However the Garmin site had been attacked by ransom ware and was down for a week.
In the meantime I installed free Windows 10 from ISO on the 6700k, a sibling of erlangen. When the Garmin site was great again I attached the watch and got recovery within a few seconds.