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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Is it possible to manage Apple devices on Linux? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have Linux Mint installed on my work PC. As I work with IT I am sometimes tasked with doing stuff like restoring Iphones and such, which is normally done through Itunes. But there's no Linux support for Itunes, and I haven't been able to install it through Wine. I also can't use a VM as my PC isn't powerful enough for it. I'm hoping there's a solution for this, as I will have to re-install Windows if I can't get it to work on Linux, and I really want to avoid that.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is absolutely no problem with virtualbox and a win10 vm. I tried wine as well but no luck. You just need to pass the usb port to the vm and youre good. I had to reboot the apple device though so it would connect correctly.

To be fully honest, running windows on the device should not be much more demanding than running windows baremetal. Because running a win10 vm means running the os in factory new condition and not having any additional autostarts etc. Only reason against that in my book would be a missing virtualization extension.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The thing is, first time I tried using a VM my whole system lagged and froze.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Others mentioned virtualization

I have had issues with COW filesystems (btrfs), as COW does not always play nicely with VM drives (extreme fragmentation and very poor performance).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like a missing virtualization extension of your cpu. Can you share your pc stats? Cpu model, ram, gpu?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I think you're on to something. I have a 10 year old laptop with linux, 4 cores, 8gb of ram, a mechanical drive, and a win10 vm on it and it runs fine for it's purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Sometimes you need to enable something in the bios (virtualization? i forget what it's called)