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Thanks so much for pulling these integrations together into a video. I recently switched from Mac to Linux desktop and have had a hard time accessing parts of the Apple ecosystem. You provided a few nuggets that are really going to help me out.
Ta for this. I'm a Linux user that's seriously contemplating getting next year's Air, as my uni requries me to use software not available on Linux and I refuse to use Windows...
@@MatrixMaverick1980 Yeah I'm a Linux user, but I also do visual/web design, audio production, and video production. Obv MacOS is the media-workstation standard, and I've often found myself considering buying a Macbook Pro. But I also sort of a hate Apple, and if I bought one I'd definitely end up using MacOS instead of Linux to get the true benefits. But with the M1's performance in video rendering it's even harder to say no. Fun fact, look into the Linux for Apple Silicon project. Some hopeful work being done there.
@Watcher I've honestly never attempted it in KVM/QEMU. I "might" be running MacOS in VMware Workstation though, and it may have a slightly noticeable, but not unmanageable performance penalty. I wonder if it would perform better with QEMU/KVM?
I have a hunch that people here don't like Apple. Honestly, the only thing keeping me from getting one is the price tag. Other than that they are great machines.
If you like Linux, chances are you'll like MacOS because MacOS is a Unixoid operating system, with a package manager like Brew, MacOS is even more fun. And a Mac is not as closed as some here claim, you can install applications either or from the AppStore or from any source on the internet like Linux or Windows. And if necessary, you can run Linux in a VM, possibly soon even natively as a dual boot (Asahi Linux).
Awesome video IG I have been looking for something that would work with I massage. I use both Linux and mac os daily. Also i been watching you from day one! Your one of the main reasons why I use linux!!!
My spouse, a teacher, has recently gotten one of these Macbook Airs lately. Part of a German government initiative for the pandemic - laptops for teachers. And of course Apple got their dirty fingers on the contract. Now all the teachers got a macbook air, with absolutely no accessories, no adapters and no licenses. While the school operates with windows, has a windows server with windows network drives, projectors with HDMI (or even still VGA) ports and 90% of the staff have never even seen a Mac. so they just need some of those apple TV boxes then you say? Yeah, the Laptops were provided as the teachers' personal equipment by the federal state. and the projectors and hardware to connect to them are part of the building which is run by the municipal council. And they say, nope. Ain't got money for that. BIG SUCCESS!!
@@fahimhussain1918 They simply don't. As the governerment needed almost 20 months from deciding to buy laptops to actually doing it and getting them to the teachers they either bought their own laptop or don't use any anyway. There is no MS-Office license with them (which is waht it taught to the kids and generally used) and due to the lack of connectivity they all now have an expensive toy at home that they just keep in the box and don't use at all. Ludicrous.
Brilliant video, Blaine. Thanks for making it, mate. I love my Apple gear, but I also love my Ubuntu. This content is super useful in getting the most out of both. Really love your videos, keep up the excellent work and thanks for the great content. Regards from Adelaide.
Thank you. 2004 I migrated from Debian/Fluxbox set up to a G4 Powerbook. Now I’m sort of drifting the other way, but any notes on managing work flow across systems are handy.
I've used Apple notes in web... BUT!!! if you have a shared folder, they don't show up on the web. And its very limited. I share a bunch of notes with my wife I just can't see in my notes.
I use NFS through a hub NAS to get Mac, Linux, BSD and Linux sharing. Although we do have a few Windoze machines here they are kept strictly away from this network.
@@platotle2106 Yes, I find it doesn't fit with the type of video that it is and also not my taste in music. Music is fine as long as it adds something to the video and is appropriate. This music isn't. At first I thought something was playing in the background of another tab, or that IG left the music on by mistake when making the video.
The hard part is accessing common files on hardware accessible to all Systems. I run macOS, Windows and Linux and end up duplicating way too much stuff. Linux's and Window's dated formats hold back macOS if you try and maintain commonality.
Dated formats? I'm not sure what you're referring to there. But yeah, I have a mostly Linux home network with a couple Windows machines running for specific things. It's WAY too difficult to get just Samba on Linux to work well with Linux, and sometimes you can't even figure out what the issue is. I think they need to work on that since Samba is clearly intended to work with Windows shared directories. For a long time I ran a VMware ESXi machine with all of my servers/files. But now with all of the HD video projects, graphics, and music I can probably justify setting up a dedicated NAS. I might go the wild way and run a Plan 9/Inferno NAS server built on Venti.
This is all good.. But still can't update or add a playlist to my iphone.. And I only have an iphone because NO other phone offers visual voice mail.. If I could find a phone that offered this or had a built in answering machine I would get ride of my iPhone too.. Oh and yes I need this because I run a business and can get up to 15 voice messages a day.
The web versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote are poor cousins to the desktop versions, but at least you can access the documents. The problem with Linux for me is I can not find any decent equivalents to all the amazing suite of macOS Apps, plus the huge selection of commercial macOS only Apps. As a designer with several PCs and Macs I am looking for a solution where I not just open and edit my documents on all my Systems: macOS, Windows 10 and Zorin OS, but can easily access my resources without duplicating them. Any help would be much appreciated.
Joplin is the best. I used Bear notes for a long time and it's no where near Joplin. I edit all my conflicts with a bash script that joplin calls with neovim. I mostly use the terminal version but the gui version has a lot of flexibility, custom themes etc...
Apple is such a unique beast. I think their hardware is excellent, and their software often works well (although I ran into my fair share of bugs when I had iPhone / Mac), but their methodology of pushing users to use Apple-only services has rubbed me very much the wrong way. Apple has almost become a religion. I don't like religion.
Apple still have the 50V line next to the 1V that goes into the CPU and one drop on that connector blows the CPU. Have had this for 9(?) years as what Louis Rossman says. Bad design made just to make you buy a new one.
although this used to be correct, I don't think it applies on the new ones, the majority of Mac users tend to have their devices for quite a long time. Yes there are always failures, but iMac, Mac mini and MacBooks tend to age quite well. The comment of having it to make you buy more is not really true. Bad design yes. Louis says many truths, but you always have to keep on the back of your mind that he was making money out of servicing/fixing Apple devices. He lost most of his income when Apple shifted towards on non-easily repaired hardware. So this is not an objective point of view. just saying.
Another good video, this time on Mac integration. You didn't touch on the aspect of mounting and integrating the Apple File System (APFS) in Linux, in such a way that one could even copy files from and to a Mac and do other things. BTW, the choice of your sponsor, MeisterTask, is a bit meh. It is an interesting solution but clients exist for MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Where is the Linux client? Ok, one can use it in the browser but the others have dedicated clients. Nothing against proprietary and paid solutions, as long as they are valuable and improve your life...and don't spy you.
@@zZSkarbogZz He is correct, as macOS can be better optimized, as it supports only certain hardware configurations. I personally really like macOS, but hate macs, as now they have become absolutely unrepairable and a privacy nightmare too.
@@johndumpling1896 They are literally perfect for everything except gaming and the absolute security minded individual. If you truly value privacy you basically have ruled out literally anything with a modern CPU, and you have Purism or System76, or a custom and hacked reflashed bios. You understand privacy doesn’t exist on the hardware side for any single manufacturer? It isn’t up to any particular software when the CPUs from both intel and AMD have built in backdoor with 100% remote access and surveillance? So then if you really want privacy you have to own multiple machines, compartmentalism of browsing and email clients, burner phone ect. Apple makes just about everything easier and faster. Don’t trust them or Linux or windows because the CPU is spying on you whatever you are using.
@@RokuRG eh. Osx is trash . It's unsecure and spy's on its users just as much as windows. To heavily locked down. Not to mention lack of good software and games. On top of all of that you're locked into apples trashy and unreliable hardware. There's a reason why most Linux users dualboot with windows.
@@ashishpatel350 Working on computers professionally for over 15 years I've NEVER seen an infected Mac. Ever. The software is much higher quality than on Windows or Linux. Apple has some of the best hardware I've seen. Windows has games....thats it. for everything else Windows blows and Linux is simply better. Mac is the best OS you can get ATM full stop.
MacOS is objectively better than Linux and both are a hell of a lot better than Windows. I made the switch to MacOS and Linux for all my personal and office machines years ago. I was all Windows from win 95 to windows 8. Started playing with Linux back in 2006 and Mac in 2008. I don't miss windows at all.
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Thanks so much for pulling these integrations together into a video. I recently switched from Mac to Linux desktop and have had a hard time accessing parts of the Apple ecosystem. You provided a few nuggets that are really going to help me out.
This ecosystem integration series is great. Lots of utilities I hadn't heard of or wasn't previously sure if they were worth the download.
Ta for this. I'm a Linux user that's seriously contemplating getting next year's Air, as my uni requries me to use software not available on Linux and I refuse to use Windows...
Mac OS and M1 Macs are amazing.
@@MatrixMaverick1980 Yeah I'm a Linux user, but I also do visual/web design, audio production, and video production. Obv MacOS is the media-workstation standard, and I've often found myself considering buying a Macbook Pro. But I also sort of a hate Apple, and if I bought one I'd definitely end up using MacOS instead of Linux to get the true benefits. But with the M1's performance in video rendering it's even harder to say no.
Fun fact, look into the Linux for Apple Silicon project. Some hopeful work being done there.
@Watcher I've honestly never attempted it in KVM/QEMU. I "might" be running MacOS in VMware Workstation though, and it may have a slightly noticeable, but not unmanageable performance penalty. I wonder if it would perform better with QEMU/KVM?
I have a hunch that people here don't like Apple.
Honestly, the only thing keeping me from getting one is the price tag. Other than that they are great machines.
Man, find a used one online. Get an older one and they are highly upgradable. I duel boot one of my Macbook pros with manjaro and it works great.
The bloat free and consistent experience is so worth it. I really love my apple devices.
I've gotta use macos for work, so this'll be really helpful :)
If you like Linux, chances are you'll like MacOS because MacOS is a Unixoid operating system, with a package manager like Brew, MacOS is even more fun.
And a Mac is not as closed as some here claim, you can install applications either or from the AppStore or from any source on the internet like Linux or Windows.
And if necessary, you can run Linux in a VM, possibly soon even natively as a dual boot (Asahi Linux).
Exactly!
Awesome video IG I have been looking for something that would work with I massage. I use both Linux and mac os daily. Also i been watching you from day one! Your one of the main reasons why I use linux!!!
I switched from windows to linux to mac. Then my laptop got old, so its back linux. As long as it's not windows all is well.
great video!!!
My spouse, a teacher, has recently gotten one of these Macbook Airs lately. Part of a German government initiative for the pandemic - laptops for teachers. And of course Apple got their dirty fingers on the contract. Now all the teachers got a macbook air, with absolutely no accessories, no adapters and no licenses. While the school operates with windows, has a windows server with windows network drives, projectors with HDMI (or even still VGA) ports and 90% of the staff have never even seen a Mac.
so they just need some of those apple TV boxes then you say? Yeah, the Laptops were provided as the teachers' personal equipment by the federal state. and the projectors and hardware to connect to them are part of the building which is run by the municipal council. And they say, nope. Ain't got money for that.
BIG SUCCESS!!
macs are trash. at least with windows you can chose your hardware and use linux if you want.
@@ashishpatel350 Macs are so much better than PCs its not even an argument. lol
Jesus it must be hell connecting one of those airs to a projector for the class
@@fahimhussain1918 They simply don't. As the governerment needed almost 20 months from deciding to buy laptops to actually doing it and getting them to the teachers they either bought their own laptop or don't use any anyway. There is no MS-Office license with them (which is waht it taught to the kids and generally used) and due to the lack of connectivity they all now have an expensive toy at home that they just keep in the box and don't use at all.
Ludicrous.
@@dragonballjiujitsu The best computer is pointless if you cannot actually use it.
Brilliant video, Blaine. Thanks for making it, mate. I love my Apple gear, but I also love my Ubuntu. This content is super useful in getting the most out of both. Really love your videos, keep up the excellent work and thanks for the great content. Regards from Adelaide.
Nice video.
Thank you. 2004 I migrated from Debian/Fluxbox set up to a G4 Powerbook. Now I’m sort of drifting the other way, but any notes on managing work flow across systems are handy.
Great video. Thanks.
ZorinOS 16 Lite was just released
Weird ! yeah I found linux through the exact same process, only a bit later with the first gen Intel macs and Os x 10.4 tiger
I've used Apple notes in web... BUT!!! if you have a shared folder, they don't show up on the web. And its very limited. I share a bunch of notes with my wife I just can't see in my notes.
5:40 does it has the photo hashing scan? i really need that for my security
I use NFS through a hub NAS to get Mac, Linux, BSD and Linux sharing. Although we do have a few Windoze machines here they are kept strictly away from this network.
Please leave out the background music next time!
It's not there for most of the video. Is there a reason why it bothers you? Genuinely curious.
@@platotle2106 Yes, I find it doesn't fit with the type of video that it is and also not my taste in music. Music is fine as long as it adds something to the video and is appropriate. This music isn't. At first I thought something was playing in the background of another tab, or that IG left the music on by mistake when making the video.
The hard part is accessing common files on hardware accessible to all Systems. I run macOS, Windows and Linux and end up duplicating way too much stuff. Linux's and Window's dated formats hold back macOS if you try and maintain commonality.
Dated formats? I'm not sure what you're referring to there. But yeah, I have a mostly Linux home network with a couple Windows machines running for specific things. It's WAY too difficult to get just Samba on Linux to work well with Linux, and sometimes you can't even figure out what the issue is. I think they need to work on that since Samba is clearly intended to work with Windows shared directories.
For a long time I ran a VMware ESXi machine with all of my servers/files. But now with all of the HD video projects, graphics, and music I can probably justify setting up a dedicated NAS. I might go the wild way and run a Plan 9/Inferno NAS server built on Venti.
Thanks for this video, my highest frustration is I can’t upload music from Linux into iPhone. Do you have a solution?
Nice!
This is all good.. But still can't update or add a playlist to my iphone.. And I only have an iphone because NO other phone offers visual voice mail.. If I could find a phone that offered this or had a built in answering machine I would get ride of my iPhone too.. Oh and yes I need this because I run a business and can get up to 15 voice messages a day.
Food for algorithm ;-)
The web versions of Pages, Numbers and Keynote are poor cousins to the desktop versions, but at least you can access the documents.
The problem with Linux for me is I can not find any decent equivalents to all the amazing suite of macOS Apps, plus the huge selection of commercial macOS only Apps.
As a designer with several PCs and Macs I am looking for a solution where I not just open and edit my documents on all my Systems: macOS, Windows 10 and Zorin OS, but can easily access my resources without duplicating them.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Legality?? I’d love to see Apple make the legal case against relaying basic text data between computers.
Joplin is the best. I used Bear notes for a long time and it's no where near Joplin. I edit all my conflicts with a bash script that joplin calls with neovim. I mostly use the terminal version but the gui version has a lot of flexibility, custom themes etc...
Apple is such a unique beast. I think their hardware is excellent, and their software often works well (although I ran into my fair share of bugs when I had iPhone / Mac), but their methodology of pushing users to use Apple-only services has rubbed me very much the wrong way.
Apple has almost become a religion. I don't like religion.
Apple still have the 50V line next to the 1V that goes into the CPU and one drop on that connector blows the CPU.
Have had this for 9(?) years as what Louis Rossman says.
Bad design made just to make you buy a new one.
although this used to be correct, I don't think it applies on the new ones, the majority of Mac users tend to have their devices for quite a long time. Yes there are always failures, but iMac, Mac mini and MacBooks tend to age quite well. The comment of having it to make you buy more is not really true. Bad design yes.
Louis says many truths, but you always have to keep on the back of your mind that he was making money out of servicing/fixing Apple devices. He lost most of his income when Apple shifted towards on non-easily repaired hardware. So this is not an objective point of view. just saying.
Use a free bsd Os for an easier time.
Another good video, this time on Mac integration. You didn't touch on the aspect of mounting and integrating the Apple File System (APFS) in Linux, in such a way that one could even copy files from and to a Mac and do other things.
BTW, the choice of your sponsor, MeisterTask, is a bit meh. It is an interesting solution but clients exist for MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Where is the Linux client? Ok, one can use it in the browser but the others have dedicated clients. Nothing against proprietary and paid solutions, as long as they are valuable and improve your life...and don't spy you.
Installing edge on linux is a sin!
Never again apple. One try was too much :(
90% of the stuff you talked about is not linux specific. they are just general, in a web brower
I actually think mac os is a great os
But its ruined by the fact that its only on apple branded systems
Thats the main reason its so good.
@@dragonballjiujitsu LOL. No.
@@zZSkarbogZz All day every day ;)
@@zZSkarbogZz He is correct, as macOS can be better optimized, as it supports only certain hardware configurations. I personally really like macOS, but hate macs, as now they have become absolutely unrepairable and a privacy nightmare too.
@@johndumpling1896 They are literally perfect for everything except gaming and the absolute security minded individual. If you truly value privacy you basically have ruled out literally anything with a modern CPU, and you have Purism or System76, or a custom and hacked reflashed bios.
You understand privacy doesn’t exist on the hardware side for any single manufacturer?
It isn’t up to any particular software when the CPUs from both intel and AMD have built in backdoor with 100% remote access and surveillance?
So then if you really want privacy you have to own multiple machines, compartmentalism of browsing and email clients, burner phone ect.
Apple makes just about everything easier and faster. Don’t trust them or Linux or windows because the CPU is spying on you whatever you are using.
Last time I was this early… she asked for a divorce
linux apps are better than apple
I'd rather go to windows than apple.
I wouldn’t, Windows is by far the most tedious to use for me. Mac is much better for everyday usage and work.
@@RokuRG eh. Osx is trash . It's unsecure and spy's on its users just as much as windows. To heavily locked down. Not to mention lack of good software and games.
On top of all of that you're locked into apples trashy and unreliable hardware.
There's a reason why most Linux users dualboot with windows.
Windows sucks ass and MacOS is better than Linux. Its not even close.
@@ashishpatel350 Working on computers professionally for over 15 years I've NEVER seen an infected Mac. Ever. The software is much higher quality than on Windows or Linux. Apple has some of the best hardware I've seen. Windows has games....thats it. for everything else Windows blows and Linux is simply better. Mac is the best OS you can get ATM full stop.
@@dragonballjiujitsu LOL. Again :)
MacOS is objectively better than Linux and both are a hell of a lot better than Windows. I made the switch to MacOS and Linux for all my personal and office machines years ago. I was all Windows from win 95 to windows 8. Started playing with Linux back in 2006 and Mac in 2008. I don't miss windows at all.
with having Linux who will use bullshit apple