Honestly, the biggest loss that I'm still mourning since switching to Linux and Android is the loss of iTunes, no, not Apple Music, _iTunes._ I know some think of it as a relic of the past, but I have an aversion to subscription services and I like being able to purchase a song and have it be in my library forever. I could hear a song I liked on the radio while at work, Shazam it, and purchase it within seconds. And that song will be automatically ready for me on my Mac when I got home (and vice versa). It was so convenient. Now it's like... where do I even buy music? Google Music is gone, Amazon only sells mp3s... do I really just have to hope they have a bandcamp page? My music listening and purchasing has really suffered now because it's such a faff to purchase music and sync that between devices. It's such a shame that Apple doesn't want to support iTunes on Linux.
Torrents might help. My collection is local as well (and no subscriptions), but I just take audio from RUclips since with my cheap headphones and speakers I won't hear the difference anyway.
I still use iTunes (running High Sierra on my iMac) and manage a huge music library with it. It's funny that I've basically used the same music player/library app since the 90s (iTunes was made from SoundJamMP which Apple purchased) and I've yet to find as complete a replacement for it. I can't stand music streaming services, I want to OWN my music. (I'm also a DJ so I kind of have to).
Appreciate the time and effort to show how to use things Apple on Linux, rather than just dismissing all of it with "Apple is stupid, dummy. Don't use Apple." As for iMessage, my understanding is that it is theoretically possible to get iMessage working on Linux. In practice it takes enough nonsense - starting with running a mac (or mac vm) on your LAN to act as a sort of proxy to the iMessage service - that it makes doing so all but impossible as you pointed out.
I have this setup but it was a massive pain to do. The average user is unlikely to stick through all the hoops you have to go through to get it to work tho. It was worth it for me because I love being able to respond to texts and iMessages from my computer
I'm using both, apple OSs and linux since about 20 years. In the first years it was easy since there were no apple phones. then it got difficult for a time but now it is easy. there are many options to transfer files and use apple services as you pointed out. for me the easiest solution for filetransfer is Signal and Signal Desktop for linux - just send yourself a file or whatever and you got it on your other device - no syncing though, but I don´t need it. BTW: love your videos!
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I replaced the Desktop & Downloads folders on 2 Macs and a Linux Notebook by symlinks into Nextcloud folders. All devices share the same Desktop Downloads and of couse all other Nextcloud files. Works pretty good.
I am someone who uses an iPhone and isn’t really planning on switching back to android, but is moving my PC to linux, this video is really helpful. Thank you so much!
The Reminders and Notes web interfaces are massively disappointing - extremely basic. I would like to see a video or two about how to set up a NextCloud environment to replicate the utilities 😊 🤔 Great vid as always 🎉
Excellent video Nick, big fan here. One thing to mention which is not minor regarding the iPhotos: the web interface will not allow to upload big videos, so if you have several videos that are 4 or 5 mins long, you won’t be able to upload using the iCloud web interface, so you won’t be able to store your video memories. This is a limited feature that only works through Mac OS integration (and the reason I use Google Photos and Google Drive for all my docs and personal files, as I have a Linux/ Mac hybrid environment at home)
Thank you for making this video!! I'm trying to get into using Linux after being exclusively on Macs since the early 1990s. I work in music production and MacOS has basically been a requirement because the industry standard software has been Mac only all this time. It basically still is. Anyway, I'm currently dual booting with Linux (Fedora at the moment) on an external NVMe drive in a thunderbolt enclosure. It's so fast! , but it's really hard to totally make the switch because I really miss the fantastic conveniences of the Mac ecosystem. I thought I was going to have to resort to switching to Google for these services, which I really didn't want to do. Now that you've showed me how... Just... thank you. thank you. Thank you!!
theres no good music software on GNU linux. id reccomend you dont switch for that purpose. im trying to find a way to run my waves and logic pro on my chromebook and came across this on my search but besides it theres nothing.
@@famousmwofficial8046 Thanks for the reply. I'm not switching in my profession. The studio needs to stick with macOS for a whole multitude of reasons. I'm trying to switch on my personal / office laptop. I haven't been able to do it 100% yet because I still need Quickbooks for the business accounting and Quicken for personal finances. For personal finance, there are fine alternatives on Linux, but there isn't anything for small business on Linux that has all the features I need and there probably never will be and I'm trying my hardest to avoid paying a subscription for the software. I've been able to get macOS Monterey to run in a VM, but it's incredibly slow. So far I've tried QuickEMU and VirtualMachineManager. the QEMU KVM works slowly with only 7MB of video ram. I was hoping VMM would run better (you can set available RAM and processor allocation much easier) but I've been unable to get my Monterey VM virtual drive to boot under it. I've given up for the time being.
Very comprehensive. I would only add the Barrier app. Screen sharing might be impossible with iOS but at least it will do the trick with an iMac or MacBook.
If you have any Mac laying around (even an old decrepit one) you can use it as an iMessage server via an app called BlueBubbles that can forward iMessages to Linux (or Windows or Android) devices.
For iMessage, there is a project called "Beeper" that offers interoperability between different messaging services (based on matrix bridges), and they were working on iMessage integration last I checked.
@@mritunjaymusale I don't think the Beeper app is, but the have Swift Framework for interacting with iMessage on their Github. And afaik you can use it with any Matrix Client like for example Element, because it is essentially just a Matrix homeserver with hosted bridges.
Ever since I found KDE Connect, I have been in love with it. Granted I am on Android, and I do not presume I will ever go Apple, it just gets too frustrating over time and not an enjoyable experience.
I came to linux from macOS. I used to use iCloud for everything, and I had tried using it with linux, including the chromium web apps... but found it a rather meh experience. It actually spurred me to get into NextCloud so I just did the reverse - made a NextCloud server, and then connected my macOS/iOS devices to use that. Also replaced notes with Obsidian which is far superior in every way. Apple's ecosystem is quite excellent if you're all in on it. It's a smooth, complete experience... if you only use Apple devices. I've honestly never been happier since I moved all my stuff off iCloud (well almost all).
@Cody Murphy Photos the macOS application and service? Nextcloud can't as far as I'm aware. You *can* however browse your photos library from the filesystem, so what I would try is somehow syncing the internal "originals" folder inside the library with a directory nextcloud can read.
You do not have to give up your Apple computers that are no longer supported by Mac OS. Just run Linux on it. I have the following installed on my 2009 Mac Pro, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, PCLinuxOS, and Manjaro. All works just fine.
Thank you for this video, it’s exactly what I wanted to see, I would like to keep using my iMac 2017 for Linux, as macOS supported is gradually now being phased out for intel Macs. It’s a decent machine and don’t need to buy a new one yet, I just want to keep using it as long as possible, as at the moment I’m not keen on the way Apple implemented storage on their latest machines, seems to be some failures in nearby chips.
Hi just saw you mention in this video that installing Linux mint apps is an option you use Can you make a video or share on mastodon of how you make it work i have tried many times and failed
No, I didn't pause. But anyways, one tool that would help I think is Resilio and Syncthing. They do the same thing really, syncing your storage/folders across devices without cloud requirement, but have different features. I like Resilio better because they have made selective sync a supported feature and have more features, but I can totally understand people preferring Syncthing because it's open source and has Flatpak. I think they're just good to use to get off Cloud Storage and they've saved me up money I used to pay OneDrive for.
C'est vrais! Effectivement I did pause the video to read your onscreen message! And thought also leaving a message would help share this video the way it came to my attention!!
I love warpinator, it's a Linux version of AirDrop created by the Linux Mint team but of course that means Desktops and Laptops only, not sure if it is available on Smartphones yet.
Snapdrop is another good one. Although you should host that one yourself, works on any device from a browser. Docker setup took me literally 5 minutes. So far it's the best AirDrop replacement out there!
How is your gnome theme so consistent? Mine is very broken and half the time it's the old GTK look and half the time it's the new libadwaita. I don't have any custom themes installed other than papirus icons. Does the "user themes" extension break the consistency for the default theme?
Step 1 : don't. I'm joking of course, well, half joking, half very much serious. Apple is very anti-consumer; unless you have an absolute need for their software for one reason or another I'd avoid their services altogether. They have made some good crap, and I'd by lying if I said the new M-series of chips weren't damn impressive technologically, but they are so thoroughly anti-consumer you really should at least make the effort to switch away IMO. Their recent privacy thing is one stunt, but lets not forget their "neural-hashing" photo scanning of your entire icloud, the kneecapping of old phones, (although I do recognize the technological necessity to lower power usage for aging battery hardware, let's be real that wasn't why they did it) their anti-repair practices, etc. You do give up some things sure, but I think the conversation regarding Apple is far too binary. Either you irrationally hate them and cannot articulate why in any meaningful way because you don't have a why, or you constantly ignore their blatant anti-consumer practices because they make one or two things that are good. I think a much greater focus should be put on addressing that, yes, apple does offer some good features and utility, but apple is also extremely anti-consumer, so focus should be put on replicating apple's integration and efficacy through alternative, pro-consumer, means. Continued use of their services should only be done with the explicit admission that it is a long term risk and it's dancing with the devil; they'll make your dreams come true, but it's only a matter of time before they take their end of the bargain. If you're okay with that and don't care, I will not for a second claim I have any right to stop you, but don't lie to yourself that Apple cares about your or has your best interests at heart, they don't. I can count the number of companies I genuinely trust on one hand, and Apple is in a different area code. Oh also, frankly Linux is very much starting to rival them on integration. When I was setting up my linux install on my new computer I got KDE connect running and got confused as hell because I seamlessly got a discord notification through my phone, before I even had my VPN configured to let me have internet access.
The best and only Apple Service I still use is Apple Music with Cider on Linux, like Apple Music on all other platforms it just has the most pleasant UX and UI.
Syncthing is amazing software. I have a complex web of synced folders across all my computers and devices. One problem being syncthing cannot work on iOS (due to file system sandboxing which Apple is adamant on). The work around? Use syncthing to sync your icloud drive folder from one of your macs - now you can have it all together. I use it to keep Obsidian sync'd between all my devices and it works perfectly.
I agree that someone should code that feature and it would be super easy, and I hope someone takes you up on that offer, but it won't be me. I'd rather code such a feature for KDE, if I were to do it, but I have a slight hatred for Apple these days.
I had no idea how to sync contacts and calendars to thunderbird thank you so much Also I second cider I’ve been using it for a while now and is so much better than the iTunes for windows application, now I only need to use iTunes for backups, and it feels faster than iTunes too. HIGHLY recommend.
Scientists: we have invented a universal data network and a stack of standard information exchange protocols so that any user from anywhere in the world from any computer can access any information Apple: If it's an Apple computer, of course
The lack of a "legit" iMessage equal on both Linux and Windows is unfortunate and Apple should challenged in court because of that limitation. Yes, I know if you have a jailbroken device you can use Webmessage but we shouldn't need to go to that extent to be able to type text messages from a keyboard
No lol. RCS is an incomplete garbage right now. Some things are end to end encrypted and some aren’t. Apple is not going to adopt it when it’s literally in such early stages. Maybe in 3 years depending on its state it will
@Zaydan Alfariz Yes it’s a mess I have seen it. When sometime it will become good then we see. Also it’s UI looks totally garbage. Idk how can apple always have amazing UI. Why doesn’t android copy apple on the UI?
@@hunhowshadow317 Software patents, most likely. Also Google follows an entirely different design language with Android, what works in one environment may not neccessarily work in another.
I agree Keynotes is just amazing, even now when I rarely use my MacBook I, still create every presentation using keynotes. I never even bother with PowerPoint or Libre Office Impress. Pages is fine and notes is an abomination which should exist.
Just tried out Numbers online (on Firefox, on Linux). It is actually quite nice if you know what you are doing with it. Can't say what you mean by abomination.
I saw your post on Mastodon about this video. Sorry to say I, as others, didn't watch it at first glance. But I'm so glad I did. I learned a lot and have much better Iphone etc interactivity now as result. Thanks so much for this one.
Well, the iMessage thing isnt entirely true. Here's a solution. 1. Set up the Sosumi OS X VM snap 2. Set the Sosumi snap to auto start and auto log in 3. Log into Messages on Sosumi. Boom. Messages on Mac OS on Linux. You can also go further to put it on an Android phone tho 4. Install AirMessage server on the Sosumi VM 5. Install the AirMessage app on your Android phone and connect to your Sosumi server I did this for a while, but ended up not using it. It's not ideal by a long shot, but you technically can use it. If you have a home server, you can set it up to run on that isntead of your main machine as well
Great solution lemme set up an entire NASA for it to work. Also FaceTime? iMessage extensions? Editing messages? It will be a solution to send simple message nothing else work so forget it
Using macOS on Work computer and Fedora on personal computer. Invested heavily on using keyboard shortcuts on mac and every time I try to do something on my personal computer, the keyboard shortcuts are very unpleasant to use. Hope there will be an official implementation of macOS shortcuts on future.
AirMessage is a great solution for using iMessage cross-platform. It requires a Mac, but you can get a Mac Mini on eBay for under $100. Mine lives under my couch and sends iMessages from Linux all day.
On Fedora 37 I was able to copy 10GB of videos to VLC on my iPad through the Documents mount point in Nautilus without installing anything extra, so not sure what happened there
Disclaimer: The Documents on iPhone only show up if you have 'gvfs-afc' and a file explorer that supports GVFS. See the archwiki page for iOS, the automounting section.
Well, I think he’s wrong about iMessage people are buying iPhones for just iMessage and FaceTime so you can’t just say that you can find alternative of iMessage just because you want to switch to Linux that’s not make sense :) by the way, if you live in Europe, or any other country, people are using secondary messaging app because they don’t know how to use ecosystem itself mostly
We’re still missing a GTK4 Flatpak program that supports iPhone plugged in the Linux PC, and automatically backs up photos and videos on the hard drive. MEGA has a sync features, which is utterly annoying because you have to delete files every now and then to stay under the storage limit, but then because of sync it will reupload them. Neverending circle.
I used Cider for a couple of months. Then one day I had to travel for like 15 days or so, and when I came back, Cider just stopped signing in the Apple account I got. So, I mean I would love if Cider works well, but it doesn't when it doesn't, and Ubuntu software centre removed it as well.
can't wait for a real linux smartphone to come live ( with real perf and camera ), starting to get bored by android / ios ( have both for personnal and work )
also "technically" you're wrong about the iMessages thing. air message does need a Mac server running but it lets you access iMessage on android or through the web
As a mac user honestly if it takes so much to get it working just use something else like Signal. iMessage is amazing out of the box, if you have to make it as much difficult as compiling gento Linux just use Signal instead and be done with it
@@hunhowshadow317 it's not about your convince imo, it's about other people not using signal (I use signal too). and also it's not that hard to setup for if ur isp isn't fucky
@@-aexc- I have never done it but setting it up sounds awful because also. In IMessage I use other extensions with other people I talk like GamePigeon, I doubt it would work with air message, also what about each update in IMessage? It would technically break it. What about photos? Can you send photos, iMessage is made to utilise High Efficiency Image Container which almost no android supports so how do you get that to work? What I am trying to say is that there are so many problems and breaking things that ain’t worth it. I use IMessage with my iPhone friends, Signal for my android friends and Instagram for the boomer girls.
@@TheLinuxEXP You said Messenger and other are far better options than iMessage? What? Only signal is better than iMessage Seriously how is Messenger far better options? I can’t find 1 advantage it has: Huge compression, no HEIC(I think),Ads, Extreme surveillance, no end to end encryption and no that fake E2E encryption Facebook offers is backdoor or whatever and just marketing.
Not a problem for me, since Apple products here in Brasil are only for people with serious amount of money (not my case as a simple IT Professional). Linux works fine for me.
One of the only thing keeping me on my mac mini is that Apple doesn't like external NAS' devices for anything but backups. I want to have all my long term storage on a NAS drive but Apple doesn't like Photos or Music on a shared device. I RDP in to my mini only for certain tasks like searching for photos. Yes, I know I can move it to my Synology device but I can't use native apple tools.
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As long as you work with symlinks most things will work even on external devices. As long as they do not necessarily need special Apple File System features. You can always make a test. I just commented before here that i use Desktop and Downloads on my Nextcloud Server.
@ Apple doesn't like to share. There are some things in Apple land that literally have to be locally mounted and only used by a single user - like the photos or music catalog. Make it multi-user and it can easily get corrupted.
Hi Nick! I'm in the process of getting a Steam Deck but I haven't used a non-MacOS computer in some time. To make the transition easier for me, I'm planning to use Progressive Web Apps on my Steam Desktop. Is using iCloud PWAs like these possible? My current strategy is to download Distrobox on Steam OS and get Linux Mint so I have access to Webapp Manager. Then get desktop shortcuts to Pages and Keynote. Is this possible? Will I have to sign in to iCloud every time? Hoping to hear from you. Thanks.
Hey I do it to varying degrees. There are worse things in life. Mac does work for the average person or someone who doesn’t have time to learn terminal.
With Linux getting more and more UX centric, does average Jo need to learn terminal? Am thinking of setting up for family. As long as most things work with alternatives not sure they care so much.
@@africandreamchild with my basic knowledge, Id say you can get away with it, but there will still be some things that need work arounds because we all know there are some software that doesn’t run on Linux that runs on windows or mac. I tried to get my daughter to use it when she was maybe 9. She got it, but kids are flexible. My wife wants nothing to do with learning Linux 😂
Back in the PPC days Apple os was good BUT now I call it Garbage I was a developer for apple and I will not go back. It is So bad that Microsoft looks good. compared to what Apple's doing. And I do not like Microsoft at all.
The one thing I have been unable to successfully do on my fedora laptop is stream audio from my laptop to an airplay device. I have a yamaha receiver that only does airplay and two homepod minis.
I have had some success with Airplay running iTunes in Windows in a VM (though it took a little jiggling of sequences of starting things up and a few reboots to get it going). You may think this is unnecessarily complicated, and I would agree, but at least it can be done, unlike syncing Music on my iPhone. Chromecast Audio might be easier, but of course Google discontinued the hardware.
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Honestly, the biggest loss that I'm still mourning since switching to Linux and Android is the loss of iTunes, no, not Apple Music, _iTunes._ I know some think of it as a relic of the past, but I have an aversion to subscription services and I like being able to purchase a song and have it be in my library forever. I could hear a song I liked on the radio while at work, Shazam it, and purchase it within seconds. And that song will be automatically ready for me on my Mac when I got home (and vice versa). It was so convenient. Now it's like... where do I even buy music? Google Music is gone, Amazon only sells mp3s... do I really just have to hope they have a bandcamp page? My music listening and purchasing has really suffered now because it's such a faff to purchase music and sync that between devices. It's such a shame that Apple doesn't want to support iTunes on Linux.
Isn’t there a Windows version of iTunes? It might run ok on Wine.
Yes, this! Totally agree.
Torrents might help. My collection is local as well (and no subscriptions), but I just take audio from RUclips since with my cheap headphones and speakers I won't hear the difference anyway.
There are better option for digitally buying songs. Qobuz for example sells albums in cd quality or *higher*.
I still use iTunes (running High Sierra on my iMac) and manage a huge music library with it. It's funny that I've basically used the same music player/library app since the 90s (iTunes was made from SoundJamMP which Apple purchased) and I've yet to find as complete a replacement for it. I can't stand music streaming services, I want to OWN my music. (I'm also a DJ so I kind of have to).
Appreciate the time and effort to show how to use things Apple on Linux, rather than just dismissing all of it with "Apple is stupid, dummy. Don't use Apple." As for iMessage, my understanding is that it is theoretically possible to get iMessage working on Linux. In practice it takes enough nonsense - starting with running a mac (or mac vm) on your LAN to act as a sort of proxy to the iMessage service - that it makes doing so all but impossible as you pointed out.
I have this setup but it was a massive pain to do. The average user is unlikely to stick through all the hoops you have to go through to get it to work tho. It was worth it for me because I love being able to respond to texts and iMessages from my computer
Webmessage works but your device needs to be jailbroken
iMessage is awesome because it works out of the box. If you have to create an entire network and what not to make it work better leave it
I'm using both, apple OSs and linux since about 20 years. In the first years it was easy since there were no apple phones. then it got difficult for a time but now it is easy. there are many options to transfer files and use apple services as you pointed out. for me the easiest solution for filetransfer is Signal and Signal Desktop for linux - just send yourself a file or whatever and you got it on your other device - no syncing though, but I don´t need it. BTW: love your videos!
I replaced the Desktop & Downloads folders on 2 Macs and a Linux Notebook by symlinks into Nextcloud folders. All devices share the same Desktop Downloads and of couse all other Nextcloud files. Works pretty good.
This is actually a really good idea, thanks!
@@KeithBoehler But always create another user for safety and of course to delete the Desktop folder and replace it by a symlink!
As a hard core apple guy I'm looking to move to a Linux desktop for day to day work - your video was very useful - Thanks!
I am someone who uses an iPhone and isn’t really planning on switching back to android, but is moving my PC to linux, this video is really helpful. Thank you so much!
The Reminders and Notes web interfaces are massively disappointing - extremely basic. I would like to see a video or two about how to set up a NextCloud environment to replicate the utilities 😊 🤔 Great vid as always 🎉
Excellent video Nick, big fan here.
One thing to mention which is not minor regarding the iPhotos: the web interface will not allow to upload big videos, so if you have several videos that are 4 or 5 mins long, you won’t be able to upload using the iCloud web interface, so you won’t be able to store your video memories. This is a limited feature that only works through Mac OS integration (and the reason I use Google Photos and Google Drive for all my docs and personal files, as I have a Linux/ Mac hybrid environment at home)
Apple and Linux - mass hysterica, cats and dogs are living together 😅.
Thanks for the video, Nick 🍉😉👍!
Thank you for making this video!! I'm trying to get into using Linux after being exclusively on Macs since the early 1990s. I work in music production and MacOS has basically been a requirement because the industry standard software has been Mac only all this time. It basically still is. Anyway, I'm currently dual booting with Linux (Fedora at the moment) on an external NVMe drive in a thunderbolt enclosure. It's so fast! , but it's really hard to totally make the switch because I really miss the fantastic conveniences of the Mac ecosystem. I thought I was going to have to resort to switching to Google for these services, which I really didn't want to do. Now that you've showed me how... Just... thank you. thank you. Thank you!!
theres no good music software on GNU linux. id reccomend you dont switch for that purpose. im trying to find a way to run my waves and logic pro on my chromebook and came across this on my search but besides it theres nothing.
@@famousmwofficial8046 Thanks for the reply. I'm not switching in my profession. The studio needs to stick with macOS for a whole multitude of reasons. I'm trying to switch on my personal / office laptop. I haven't been able to do it 100% yet because I still need Quickbooks for the business accounting and Quicken for personal finances. For personal finance, there are fine alternatives on Linux, but there isn't anything for small business on Linux that has all the features I need and there probably never will be and I'm trying my hardest to avoid paying a subscription for the software. I've been able to get macOS Monterey to run in a VM, but it's incredibly slow. So far I've tried QuickEMU and VirtualMachineManager. the QEMU KVM works slowly with only 7MB of video ram. I was hoping VMM would run better (you can set available RAM and processor allocation much easier) but I've been unable to get my Monterey VM virtual drive to boot under it. I've given up for the time being.
Very comprehensive. I would only add the Barrier app. Screen sharing might be impossible with iOS but at least it will do the trick with an iMac or MacBook.
I use barrier between my Linux desktop and iMac which are both on my desk - absolutely cannot live without it. Fantastic software.
@@meowcula I was a bit less lucky. It didn't work with OpenSSL enabled between my Ubuntu and Windows 10 machines
If you have any Mac laying around (even an old decrepit one) you can use it as an iMessage server via an app called BlueBubbles that can forward iMessages to Linux (or Windows or Android) devices.
there is an app called bluebubbles that lets you run imesage on linux, windows and android but it needs a running macos instance
Maybe you can make a video about "darling", basically wine for macOS apps.
For iMessage, there is a project called "Beeper" that offers interoperability between different messaging services (based on matrix bridges), and they were working on iMessage integration last I checked.
@@mritunjaymusale I don't think the Beeper app is, but the have Swift Framework for interacting with iMessage on their Github. And afaik you can use it with any Matrix Client like for example Element, because it is essentially just a Matrix homeserver with hosted bridges.
Ever since I found KDE Connect, I have been in love with it.
Granted I am on Android, and I do not presume I will ever go Apple, it just gets too frustrating over time and not an enjoyable experience.
KDE connect is awesome!
I came to linux from macOS. I used to use iCloud for everything, and I had tried using it with linux, including the chromium web apps... but found it a rather meh experience. It actually spurred me to get into NextCloud so I just did the reverse - made a NextCloud server, and then connected my macOS/iOS devices to use that. Also replaced notes with Obsidian which is far superior in every way. Apple's ecosystem is quite excellent if you're all in on it. It's a smooth, complete experience... if you only use Apple devices. I've honestly never been happier since I moved all my stuff off iCloud (well almost all).
@Cody Murphy Photos the macOS application and service? Nextcloud can't as far as I'm aware. You *can* however browse your photos library from the filesystem, so what I would try is somehow syncing the internal "originals" folder inside the library with a directory nextcloud can read.
@@meowcula What about between Photos on iOS and NextCloud? Do they sync nicely?
@@PatrickDunca I actually can't speak to that as I do not use that feature.
I have moved mail, contacts, calendar first to a pro-privacy non-us service. Easy to use any device now.
You do not have to give up your Apple computers that are no longer supported by Mac OS. Just run Linux on it. I have the following installed on my 2009 Mac Pro, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, PCLinuxOS, and Manjaro. All works just fine.
Nice episode! I was looking for this info. Nice you did a video about iCloud apps on linux,
Thank you for this video, it’s exactly what I wanted to see, I would like to keep using my iMac 2017 for Linux, as macOS supported is gradually now being phased out for intel Macs. It’s a decent machine and don’t need to buy a new one yet, I just want to keep using it as long as possible, as at the moment I’m not keen on the way Apple implemented storage on their latest machines, seems to be some failures in nearby chips.
Hi just saw you mention in this video that installing Linux mint apps is an option you use
Can you make a video or share on mastodon of how you make it work i have tried many times and failed
No, I didn't pause.
But anyways, one tool that would help I think is Resilio and Syncthing. They do the same thing really, syncing your storage/folders across devices without cloud requirement, but have different features. I like Resilio better because they have made selective sync a supported feature and have more features, but I can totally understand people preferring Syncthing because it's open source and has Flatpak.
I think they're just good to use to get off Cloud Storage and they've saved me up money I used to pay OneDrive for.
System Tray icons are a way to keep apps alive in the background, so that's most likely the reason for the Cider tray icon.
It's not the Apple ecosystem that I avoid, it's all ecosystems that I avoid. This keeps me from using cloud storage, synching anything and so on.
C'est vrais! Effectivement I did pause the video to read your onscreen message! And thought also leaving a message would help share this video the way it came to my attention!!
0:23 personally i found it easier than expected, though i had been drifting away from apple services for quite a while at that point
I didn't pause the video to watch it but it did cross my mind
Always a pleasure listening to your explanations
THX , you're welcome
I love warpinator, it's a Linux version of AirDrop created by the Linux Mint team but of course that means Desktops and Laptops only, not sure if it is available on Smartphones yet.
Warpinator is fantastic!
Snapdrop is another good one. Although you should host that one yourself, works on any device from a browser. Docker setup took me literally 5 minutes. So far it's the best AirDrop replacement out there!
I’m about to put cider on my holoiso box. Thank you Nick! Always appreciate the information.
How is your gnome theme so consistent? Mine is very broken and half the time it's the old GTK look and half the time it's the new libadwaita. I don't have any custom themes installed other than papirus icons. Does the "user themes" extension break the consistency for the default theme?
Step 1 : don't.
I'm joking of course, well, half joking, half very much serious. Apple is very anti-consumer; unless you have an absolute need for their software for one reason or another I'd avoid their services altogether. They have made some good crap, and I'd by lying if I said the new M-series of chips weren't damn impressive technologically, but they are so thoroughly anti-consumer you really should at least make the effort to switch away IMO. Their recent privacy thing is one stunt, but lets not forget their "neural-hashing" photo scanning of your entire icloud, the kneecapping of old phones, (although I do recognize the technological necessity to lower power usage for aging battery hardware, let's be real that wasn't why they did it) their anti-repair practices, etc.
You do give up some things sure, but I think the conversation regarding Apple is far too binary. Either you irrationally hate them and cannot articulate why in any meaningful way because you don't have a why, or you constantly ignore their blatant anti-consumer practices because they make one or two things that are good. I think a much greater focus should be put on addressing that, yes, apple does offer some good features and utility, but apple is also extremely anti-consumer, so focus should be put on replicating apple's integration and efficacy through alternative, pro-consumer, means. Continued use of their services should only be done with the explicit admission that it is a long term risk and it's dancing with the devil; they'll make your dreams come true, but it's only a matter of time before they take their end of the bargain. If you're okay with that and don't care, I will not for a second claim I have any right to stop you, but don't lie to yourself that Apple cares about your or has your best interests at heart, they don't. I can count the number of companies I genuinely trust on one hand, and Apple is in a different area code.
Oh also, frankly Linux is very much starting to rival them on integration. When I was setting up my linux install on my new computer I got KDE connect running and got confused as hell because I seamlessly got a discord notification through my phone, before I even had my VPN configured to let me have internet access.
I have Nextcloud mainly to replace Dropbox and ICloud stuff :) works pretty well, but its not as smooth or properly integrated.
The best and only Apple Service I still use is Apple Music with Cider on Linux, like Apple Music on all other platforms it just has the most pleasant UX and UI.
I'm using home assistant for My homekit defices and to controll my homepod
For iCloud drive you can use syncthing to sync files across
Syncthing is amazing software. I have a complex web of synced folders across all my computers and devices. One problem being syncthing cannot work on iOS (due to file system sandboxing which Apple is adamant on). The work around? Use syncthing to sync your icloud drive folder from one of your macs - now you can have it all together. I use it to keep Obsidian sync'd between all my devices and it works perfectly.
Why would you want this? When I used an iphone, I made every attempt to avoid these poorly-made apps.
I agree that someone should code that feature and it would be super easy, and I hope someone takes you up on that offer, but it won't be me. I'd rather code such a feature for KDE, if I were to do it, but I have a slight hatred for Apple these days.
Great video, very useful , thank you..
I had no idea how to sync contacts and calendars to thunderbird thank you so much
Also I second cider I’ve been using it for a while now and is so much better than the iTunes for windows application, now I only need to use iTunes for backups, and it feels faster than iTunes too. HIGHLY recommend.
Loving this channel thank you so much! Recently installed Ubuntu on my old Mac so this is awesome.
As always writing a comment to support the channel
9:30 I'm a college student in the US and everyone uses imessage. I heard it isn't really a big thing in Europe but over here, it is.
Everyone I know uses WhatsApp. It think it is the main chat message app here in Europe.
@@QazCetelic I have never met a whatsapp user, or at least I have never tried to text one
Until I started taking in exchange students I had no idea what whatsapp and Line even were. iMassage is still far better.
@@dragonballjiujitsu Line?
@@channel-uz9fz Line is the app my Japanese daughters use. Far more popular in Asian countries.
Not "ecosystem", but "vendor lock in".
Scientists: we have invented a universal data network and a stack of standard information exchange protocols so that any user from anywhere in the world from any computer can access any information
Apple: If it's an Apple computer, of course
The lack of a "legit" iMessage equal on both Linux and Windows is unfortunate and Apple should challenged in court because of that limitation. Yes, I know if you have a jailbroken device you can use Webmessage but we shouldn't need to go to that extent to be able to type text messages from a keyboard
@Zaydan Alfariz It would be great if Apple ever allowed RCS
No lol. RCS is an incomplete garbage right now. Some things are end to end encrypted and some aren’t. Apple is not going to adopt it when it’s literally in such early stages. Maybe in 3 years depending on its state it will
@Zaydan Alfariz Yes it’s a mess I have seen it. When sometime it will become good then we see. Also it’s UI looks totally garbage. Idk how can apple always have amazing UI. Why doesn’t android copy apple on the UI?
@@hunhowshadow317 Software patents, most likely.
Also Google follows an entirely different design language with Android, what works in one environment may not neccessarily work in another.
I agree Keynotes is just amazing, even now when I rarely use my MacBook I, still create every presentation using keynotes. I never even bother with PowerPoint or Libre Office Impress.
Pages is fine and notes is an abomination which should exist.
a great and useful presentation.
could you show me how to use gmail with sylpheed or thunderbird?
Just tried out Numbers online (on Firefox, on Linux).
It is actually quite nice if you know what you are doing with it.
Can't say what you mean by abomination.
I saw your post on Mastodon about this video. Sorry to say I, as others, didn't watch it at first glance. But I'm so glad I did. I learned a lot and have much better Iphone etc interactivity now as result. Thanks so much for this one.
You can use blue bubbles for imessage
Great video as always! I have a friend who might find this useful.
there is bluebubbles and airmessage, also you can use a vm
Which email client were you using when showing how to add an iCloud email? The UI looks great
I want to know it too. Good question 😊
@@nemowei5553 After a quick search, turns out the mail client is Geary :)
Well, the iMessage thing isnt entirely true. Here's a solution.
1. Set up the Sosumi OS X VM snap
2. Set the Sosumi snap to auto start and auto log in
3. Log into Messages on Sosumi. Boom. Messages on Mac OS on Linux. You can also go further to put it on an Android phone tho
4. Install AirMessage server on the Sosumi VM
5. Install the AirMessage app on your Android phone and connect to your Sosumi server
I did this for a while, but ended up not using it.
It's not ideal by a long shot, but you technically can use it.
If you have a home server, you can set it up to run on that isntead of your main machine as well
Great solution lemme set up an entire NASA for it to work. Also FaceTime? iMessage extensions? Editing messages? It will be a solution to send simple message nothing else work so forget it
@@hunhowshadow317 never said it was a good solution, just that it's technically possible
There is a way to get iMessage on linux using airmessage, but it requires you to run a server on a mac device
Still waiting for a Linux distro/desktop to support Mac key bindings.
More importantly nice mug at 9:45!
It’s a CAT!
Using macOS on Work computer and Fedora on personal computer.
Invested heavily on using keyboard shortcuts on mac and every time I try to do something on my personal computer, the keyboard shortcuts are very unpleasant to use.
Hope there will be an official implementation of macOS shortcuts on future.
Hi Nick, many thanks!!
Easiest way to access your apple apps on linux is make a good nice vm
AirMessage is a great solution for using iMessage cross-platform. It requires a Mac, but you can get a Mac Mini on eBay for under $100. Mine lives under my couch and sends iMessages from Linux all day.
Or just buy a god damn iPhone than having a mac and broken iMessage 😂
@@hunhowshadow317 I have an iPhone. I do not use MacOS so AirMessage is how I text from my desktop.
I did pause the video! 😀
On Fedora 37 I was able to copy 10GB of videos to VLC on my iPad through the Documents mount point in Nautilus without installing anything extra, so not sure what happened there
Disclaimer: The Documents on iPhone only show up if you have 'gvfs-afc' and a file explorer that supports GVFS. See the archwiki page for iOS, the automounting section.
Well, I think he’s wrong about iMessage people are buying iPhones for just iMessage and FaceTime so you can’t just say that you can find alternative of iMessage just because you want to switch to Linux that’s not make sense :) by the way, if you live in Europe, or any other country, people are using secondary messaging app because they don’t know how to use ecosystem itself mostly
Mexican here. the "poshy"side of my familiy uses everything apple... except iMessage.
Cyder also has support for apple podcasts tho
We’re still missing a GTK4 Flatpak program that supports iPhone plugged in the Linux PC, and automatically backs up photos and videos on the hard drive. MEGA has a sync features, which is utterly annoying because you have to delete files every now and then to stay under the storage limit, but then because of sync it will reupload them. Neverending circle.
how to usr apple keychain in Linux, pkease help
What about beeper for iMessage
I used Cider for a couple of months. Then one day I had to travel for like 15 days or so, and when I came back, Cider just stopped signing in the Apple account I got. So, I mean I would love if Cider works well, but it doesn't when it doesn't, and Ubuntu software centre removed it as well.
can't wait for a real linux smartphone to come live ( with real perf and camera ), starting to get bored by android / ios ( have both for personnal and work )
also "technically" you're wrong about the iMessages thing. air message does need a Mac server running but it lets you access iMessage on android or through the web
As a mac user honestly if it takes so much to get it working just use something else like Signal. iMessage is amazing out of the box, if you have to make it as much difficult as compiling gento Linux just use Signal instead and be done with it
@@hunhowshadow317 it's not about your convince imo, it's about other people not using signal (I use signal too). and also it's not that hard to setup for if ur isp isn't fucky
@@-aexc- I have never done it but setting it up sounds awful because also. In IMessage I use other extensions with other people I talk like GamePigeon, I doubt it would work with air message, also what about each update in IMessage? It would technically break it. What about photos? Can you send photos, iMessage is made to utilise High Efficiency Image Container which almost no android supports so how do you get that to work?
What I am trying to say is that there are so many problems and breaking things that ain’t worth it.
I use IMessage with my iPhone friends, Signal for my android friends and Instagram for the boomer girls.
No one is going to do that though
@@TheLinuxEXP You said Messenger and other are far better options than iMessage? What?
Only signal is better than iMessage
Seriously how is Messenger far better options? I can’t find 1 advantage it has:
Huge compression, no HEIC(I think),Ads, Extreme surveillance, no end to end encryption and no that fake E2E encryption Facebook offers is backdoor or whatever and just marketing.
I'd love to see GarageBand and iMovie run on Linux.
What the name of this browser used in video?
Not a problem for me, since Apple products here in Brasil are only for people with serious amount of money (not my case as a simple IT Professional). Linux works fine for me.
Linkarc for sync bookmarks on any device.
I live for segues!🥰 You handle them like a pro. ROFLMFAO!! Yes, I did pause it.
Hahaha I knew someone would!
Any solution to install itunes client for backup / flash the ios ? i use windows for backup /recovery and reset etc.
Thanks!
One of the only thing keeping me on my mac mini is that Apple doesn't like external NAS' devices for anything but backups. I want to have all my long term storage on a NAS drive but Apple doesn't like Photos or Music on a shared device. I RDP in to my mini only for certain tasks like searching for photos. Yes, I know I can move it to my Synology device but I can't use native apple tools.
As long as you work with symlinks most things will work even on external devices. As long as they do not necessarily need special Apple File System features. You can always make a test. I just commented before here that i use Desktop and Downloads on my Nextcloud Server.
@ Apple doesn't like to share. There are some things in Apple land that literally have to be locally mounted and only used by a single user - like the photos or music catalog. Make it multi-user and it can easily get corrupted.
Hi Nick! I'm in the process of getting a Steam Deck but I haven't used a non-MacOS computer in some time. To make the transition easier for me, I'm planning to use Progressive Web Apps on my Steam Desktop. Is using iCloud PWAs like these possible? My current strategy is to download Distrobox on Steam OS and get Linux Mint so I have access to Webapp Manager. Then get desktop shortcuts to Pages and Keynote. Is this possible? Will I have to sign in to iCloud every time? Hoping to hear from you. Thanks.
Which browser are you using ?
didn't know apple had services. but it seems that they succeeded in making them more locked down than the alternatives.
Apple’s ecosystem is the best around and I say that as both a Linux and Apple user.
Hey I do it to varying degrees. There are worse things in life. Mac does work for the average person or someone who doesn’t have time to learn terminal.
With Linux getting more and more UX centric, does average Jo need to learn terminal? Am thinking of setting up for family. As long as most things work with alternatives not sure they care so much.
@@africandreamchild with my basic knowledge, Id say you can get away with it, but there will still be some things that need work arounds because we all know there are some software that doesn’t run on Linux that runs on windows or mac. I tried to get my daughter to use it when she was maybe 9. She got it, but kids are flexible. My wife wants nothing to do with learning Linux 😂
Is it possible to run an iOS app (e.g. game) on Linux?
Back in the PPC days Apple os was good BUT now I call it Garbage I was a developer for apple and I will not go back. It is So bad that Microsoft looks good. compared to what Apple's doing. And I do not like Microsoft at all.
RIP JV apparently 😂
I did pause... you got me
Good luck using iCloud to upload any pic though. Or to photos. Like .png pictures.
The one thing I have been unable to successfully do on my fedora laptop is stream audio from my laptop to an airplay device. I have a yamaha receiver that only does airplay and two homepod minis.
I have had some success with Airplay running iTunes in Windows in a VM (though it took a little jiggling of sequences of starting things up and a few reboots to get it going). You may think this is unnecessarily complicated, and I would agree, but at least it can be done, unlike syncing Music on my iPhone. Chromecast Audio might be easier, but of course Google discontinued the hardware.
Was expecting XCode here as well, but now I think there isn't any :(
04:00 yes
I wish I could use Logic or Final Cut on Linux without running a macOS vm.
lmao at do a 45 minute unedited "distro review"
How to open heic on linux
Don't think you can. I tell my iPhone to only do JPEG, it is universal.
imessage is better than whatsapp and all the other messengers you mentioned. wish we could use it in Linux :(