Windows can't (native) read the various Linux drive formats, like EXT3/4 Btrfs, etc, where Linux can manage FAT32 and NTFS with some bit wrangling. There are two separate versions listed on the Seagate site, one for macOS 10.10 to 10.15, and another for the Macs running an Apple silicon chip. Any external drive should work just fine with Linux - but you'll have to use a drive formatting that works with Windows - like FAT32 or NTFS. Or, if you bought an external hard drive from Seagate, it should come with Paragon Driver to let you read and write data interchangeably on Windows and Mac without formatting the drive. You can use a third-party app to write to an NTFS disk on a Mac. As a consequence, you won’t be able to add, change, or delete files. On macOS, you can only read disks in this format, not write to them.
Is your external hard drive showing up as “read only” on your Mac? This usually happens because the drive is formatted with Microsoft’s NTFS file format. Here’s a guide to macOS disk permissions to help you understand the technical concepts. As darnir said, Gparted is a suitable tool for this. This lets you set the permissions to Read & Write to yourself while keeping the read-only for other users. Since it is an external drive, you might want to format with Fat32 or NTFS, so you access the files when moving the disk around to different platforms. If this is a drive you formatted yourself, you can change the individual permissions in the box above. You won’t see this option if the external storage is used as a boot drive or a Time Machine backup drive.
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