> Care to explain why do you think NTFS is crap?

I don't know if it's crap but it's much much slower than EXT4.

I remember reading a comment here that Windows in a VM on a Linux host was faster than bare metal.

Probably not true but I decided to make a test. I have a .net core app that insert data in a sqlite db (the resulting db is about 300 GB).

So I benchmarked this app on Linux (it was previously running on Windows) and IIRC it ran about 4 times faster.