Doing stuff on Linux is like buying random Ikea pieces from a flea market. Half the time they don’t all fit together and you spend hours custom making things to get it to work following a guide on a forum, and it is still janky.
I wanted to use a 2TB external USB drive with the FreedomBox, which runs Debian. Currently formatted with APFS. Tried to get apfs-fuse running, which broke the web services. Had to roll back to a snapshot. Then spent an hour trying to get a tool on macOS working to format the drive with ext4. Once I did, the FreedomBox was too underpowered to run the drive. Spent 20 minutes digging through old boxes to find either a better power supply or a powered USB hub. Ended up using my daily driver hub from my desk. All to get this drive to mount.
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