Which FS to use?
 

I'm swapping to Linux soon and want to get all of my ducks in a row, particularly about file systems. I know there's NTFS support for Linux, but how good is it? Currently, I've got a drive that's a 1TB SATA that I store my media on. It's formatted for NTFS right now, but should I reformat it to another file type when I swap to Linux or is Linux OK with NTFS enough to not have to worry about it?

The ntfs-3g driver gives you full read-write support on NTFS, but no all distributions include it currently, as far as I know. The kernel NTFS driver lets you read data from an NTFS partition. ntfs-3g is actually good.

If you're only going to be using Linux, I'd suggest if capable of doing so, reformat to a more native filesystem that Linux handles by default, preferably ext3, JFS or any of the other journaling filesystems. If you're gonna have a mixture of Linux and Windows, keep NTFS and don't waste your time, configure your Linux machines with the module described above to access the NTFS drive.