When you say all those words in a sentence, I have honestly no idea what you are saying.

ya know. I’ve read this a lot directed at me… I clearly have a communication issue. I’ll reread everything and try to figure myself out .

I just quasi ran into storage issues. have 1 qnap with 16tb raid1… NTFS

I can’t for the life of me get it to connect to Linux, detects it being connected, won’t display as a drive.

I stupidly installed bazzite, which is stupidly restrictive (so I’ve learned) on fstab… found out after I had to boot into grub to edit fstab back since it wouldnt let me edit the file since bazzite revoked me root access? ok… that was the deal breaker for me (with bazzite, not Linux)