That's why most removable storage is default formatted to FAT32 or exFAT. Even NTFS drives aren't too bad because the other OSses will usually read them by default, I know Linux does. But there's programs you can use, I found this with a search: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
There must be a way to use the Windows Linux Subsystem to read them but I'm not even going to bother to look into it.
In general I probably wouldn't trust the Steam Deck to format SD cards if it does them in ext4. Just format them in Windows and the Deck should read it fine anyway. I'm assuming it doesn't actually need them to be ext? I actually haven't tried Steam on Linux installing to a NTFS drive but then my Ubuntu install on my laptop auto-mounts that partition at boot anyway so I dunno.
There must be a way to use the Windows Linux Subsystem to read them but I'm not even going to bother to look into it.
In general I probably wouldn't trust the Steam Deck to format SD cards if it does them in ext4. Just format them in Windows and the Deck should read it fine anyway. I'm assuming it doesn't actually need them to be ext? I actually haven't tried Steam on Linux installing to a NTFS drive but then my Ubuntu install on my laptop auto-mounts that partition at boot anyway so I dunno.
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