Here’s my way 1. Check Which Driver You Have modinfo ntfs | head -5 Look at the author field: Author Driver Namjae Jeon New “NTFS Resurrection” driver (read-write) Anton Altaparmakov Old classic driver (read-only, removed since kernel 6.10) If you get modinfo: ERROR: Module not found , load it first: sudo modprobe ntfs . 2. Manual Mount sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdXN /mnt/point Note: the filesystem type is ntfs , not ntfs3 — the new driver reuses the old name. 3. Make Dolphin / File Manager Use It Dolphin uses udisks2 under the hood. When udisks2 tries to mount an NTFS partition, it: Tries mount -t ntfs3 first (old Paragon driver) → fails with “wrong fs type” if you don’t have it Falls back to the FUSE helper at /sbin/mount.ntfs → loads ntfs-3g (slow, fuseblk) The fix is to skip both and go straight to the new kernel driver: # Step A — remove the FUSE intercept sudo mv /sbin/mount.ntfs /sbin/mount.ntfs.bak # Step B — tell udisks2 to try "ntfs" only, skip "ntfs3" sudo tee /etc/udisks2/mount_options.conf << 'EOF' [defaults] ntfs_drivers=ntfs EOF # Step C — restart udisks2 systemctl restart udisks2 Now clicking an NTFS partition in Dolphin will use the new kernel driver directly. 4. Verify mount | grep ntfs Expected ( type ntfs ) Wrong ( type fuseblk ) Kernel new driver ntfs-3g FUSE