The Perils of M1 Ownership

Re:The Perils of M1 Ownership by MeinBlutIstBlau on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:02PM (#27877481)

All of your talking points are the reason why I can't devote myself to the Apple ecosystem anymore. On top of making it borderline impossible to retrieve any of your data as a file, they have been focusing way too much on Apple One and their SaaS models than they have their actual products. It wasn't until the M1 came around that I really looked upon them very disfavorably.

But now with Macbooks reaching $2k for a decent base model on the horizon, I'm really starting to just dip further into Linux every day. At least with ext4, btrfs, or zfs I can access those files on different operating systems. APFS? Have fun with recovering those backups without having to shell out for another Mac. Not to mention the OS is free. Had I still been an avid gamer Windows would hold it's leash on me, but Windows 11 is not looking better either.

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Re:The Perils of M1 Ownership by Nextgrid on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:04PM (#27877493)

> APFS? Have fun with recovering those backups without having to shell out for another Mac

I've successfully used Paragon's APFS filesystem driver to mount an encrypted APFS drive on Linux. The price was reasonable too: https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-linux/

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Re:The Perils of M1 Ownership by sharikous on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:04AM (#27881190)

APFS is openly documented (although a bit badly): https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/Apple-File-Sys...

Your point still stands, though, with those soldered in SSDs needed for the boot process...

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Re:The Perils of M1 Ownership by heavyset_go on Sunday July 18, 2021 @07:38PM (#27877720)

There are two open source FUSE drivers for APFS that, theoretically, should work on any system with userspace file system support. They don't support all APFS features, though, and I wouldn't rely on them for anything serious or that you care about.

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