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If you were to format the drive with extra and then copy something to it from Linux - if you try open it on another Linux machine (eg you distro hop after this event) it won't open the file because your aren't the owner.
Then you have to jump though hoops trying to make yourself the owner just so you can open your own file.
I learnt this the hard way so I just use exFAT and it all works.
I mean, if you want to set permissions on a drive to a userid and groupid in /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the current machine:
That's not that painful, though I guess it could take a while to run on a drive with a lot of stuff.