> I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. Then you haven't used any Gigabyte, Asus or Intel motherboard for the

> I've never seen a motherboard supporting anything else than FAT for an UEFI partition. Then you haven't used any Gigabyte, Asus or Intel motherboard for the last 5-7 years, because all the ones I tried include a native NTFS UEFI driver alongside the mandatory FAT32 UEFI driver. But, as others have pointed out, while it is definitely getting commoditized, you can't rely on NTFS being available in a UEFI firmware.