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

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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] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Throw away your Apple devices. Fuck that walled garden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely, but OP will have to explain a bit to their boss why. Maybe we can help OP there?

Fuck that walled garden is not a business value added task so can we, as a community who cares how openness, translate that to C-suite MBA speech?

Apple devices are more expensive to manage (source? time from OP to do so? additional hardware? TCO comparisons?)
Apple devices are less compatible with software solution we use in the company (examples?)
Apple devices ...

Maybe Ubuntu, RedHat, and other company selling FLOSS have reports to help there.

This is nearly 20 years old but give the idea of the words needed https://www.cio.com/article/274764/operating-systems-the-tco-of-operating-systems-compare-the-big-oses.html

Here is something a bit more recent https://umatechnology.org/comparing-operating-system-costs-windows-macos-linux/ but again this isn't to give an "answer" but at least understanding management perspective, which is not really a technical one but rather a cost/value one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://asahilinux.org/ but sure no roms for iphones