Ease of use
What does it take to set up a filesystem and use all its features?
There are virtually no extra steps required to use Btrfs, Ext4 or XFS. For years, they’ve been included in the Linux kernel, which means that any Linux system can mount such partitions without installing or configuring anything else. Formatting, growing, fixing filesystem errors and similar service tasks are performed by command-line utilities found in the btrfsprogs, e2fsprogs and xfsprogs packages available in any Linux distro. The same goes for NTFS – most mainstream distributions are normally capable of reading and writing on NTFS partitions.