K eeping a Linux recovery drive is a wise approach because you can use it to access the disk files or reinstall the OS if ...

Many folks (including yours truly) switch from Microsoft’s OS series to Linux for its privacy-first and open-source nature.

That MacOS (formerly OS X) has BSD roots is a well-known fact, with its predecessor NeXTSTEP and its XNU kernel derived from 4.3BSD. Subsequent releases of OS X/MacOS then proceeded to happily ...