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On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, mr meowski wrote:
the usual bleats, whinges and criticisms.
Get real, will you? This is an ordinary person who dabbles in a bit of Linux, etc.
My wife has iphone, watch, mac book pro, backups and insurance. If she loses a physical device it's replaced within 24 hours and backups are restored. Job done and its not expensive.
1: You didn't read the question properly
I did.
The question was:
"what Linux distro could read and write to a mac computer's
external back up?"
My answer: None.
My reasoning; it's not worth it.
2: You answered with the typical flippant IT Pro "oh just do this, that, that, that and then this, it's soooo easy LOL!" spool
That's because it is easy. It's far easier to replace hardware like for like and restore than to spend hours/days/weeks farting about with old PCs running VM/hackintosh/whatever to try to emulate a nice shiny MBP or read all that Mac data. Do you really think a young person at uni really wants that these days?
3: Uh... who cares.
This is a personal laptop for a student. The medical aspect of it is pretty much irelevant here.
This is what insurance is for. You're probably already covered on your household insurance. We are.
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