Top 13 Mac Apps Every Linux User Will Love

[@oscs4556]

Homebrew is a must for me on Mac machines

[@tschorsch]

When you're stuck on a Mac for work, it's the only way to get moat apps you need.

[@melorama808]

Also surprised he didn't recommend Homebrew package manager as well. It can also manage standard Mac apps via the built-in Homebrew Cask feature. And if you install the "mas" Mac App Store command line utility, you can also manage App Store apps from the CLI as well. Then you can just exportr a list of all your installed applications and CLI utilities by running "brew bundle -f dump", then easily reinstall all of those apps on a new Mac just by copying the resulting "Brewfile" dump to the new Mac's home directoriy, then running "brew bundle install" to automatically install everything in that list (including Mac App Store apps!)

[@UnknownEntity420]

+1 Though it's MacPorts for me :P

[@mandrael]

11:30 I use UTM for running Win11 on my Mac. This is free and very performant. Way more performant than VMware. Parallels is very good, but pricey.

[@corywest]

I was surprised UTM wasn't on this list too. I actually used UTM to run VMs of Linux distros for Jay's Ansible course on Udemy and didn't have any issues.

[@John7No]

Hi nice video as always. 2 things that I would highly suggest that fall in the same category are 1. brew 2. for terminal iTerm2. This is my go to for MacOS. I Understand if someone wants to have the same terminal in both Linux and MacOS

[@tschorsch]

iTerm2 is pretty good and it's open source.

[@digiampietro]

As a terminal emulator, I use Royal TSX (not free, but cheap). It is a tabbed terminal emulator that also supports RDP, VNC, Web Console, file transfer, etc. Highly recommended. As a freelancer, I often need to use Windows-only applications (like Visio), and Parallels is really awesome. If Parallels were available on Linux, I would switch from a Mac desktop to a Linux desktop because, unfortunately, it is impossible for me to get consulting jobs without Microsoft applications like Teams, Word, Excel, etc.

[@stephen-collins]

Here are two MacOS features that Linux desperately needs a solution for: 1) Airdrop 2) Airplay Both are so useful and the reason I bought a Macbook Air for the house.

[@SeanClarke]

The missing app for those of us using multiple devices and OSs is Synergy. I use a Linux Desktop with a 49" 4K display and a 16" MacBook Pro. Synergy lets me control both from a single keyboard and mouse.

[@solido888]

I just use a usb switch. Works great.

[@IainNitro]

Hello: I love that you did this video. My Mac Mini M1 is my daily driver. I do use Linux (and FreeBSD for that matter) for administration as a professional. FreeBSD is the underlying UNIX in MacOS. Great information.

[@eugenesmirnov252]

Virtualbox deserves to be metioned. Brew, Docker etc comes along.

[@Practical-IT]

Great list Jay. There were a couple apps on there that I was not aware of. Kudos!

[@mr.t8838]

I like ITerm2 on MAC, and for virtualization I use UTM which is free (VMs on Apple Silicon run more smoothly than on x86_64)

[@Sakurina]

One more reason you might want to use a third-party terminal on the Mac is that the default terminal has some wonky color support that can break certain shell prompts or editor color schemes.

[@clvn9ja]

Was using Wezterm but after changing the original terminal font to the Meslo nerd font, all my oh-my-zsh, powerlevel10k, and colorls look just like in Wezterm. Went back to the OG terminal.

[@rohan1765]

What are you using for that CPU & network monitor on status bar, I desperately need it.

[@UnwalledGarden]

Thanks for showing love to Macs. I like the Shellfish terminal app for something that syncs across MacOS and iOS devices.

[@eramorn]

Very useful video like always jay! :)

[@HectorLugo]

How does MacOS being BSD based help admins? I mean, I understand the underlying UNIX-like structure can make it easier, but does Mac have all the tool built in that say a FreeBSD or a Linux distort might have to administer a network of servers?

[@ZombieLincoln666]

yeah it does. But many of them are pretty old versions

[@LM_AUDIO_VIDEO]

Hi, i'm running debian 12 and my ícones in the gnome software are broken. Since i add flatpak. Is there a solution? Thanks

[@musiqtee]

Tangent from an old fart…: I learned CLI & terminal shenanigans from OSX, as I transitioned from OS9. A bit like “learning Linux” with *BSD. Silly, but made me go into Linux for servers around 2007. Today, virtualised homelab & workplace servers - and old laptops with different distros for fun & learning… The earlier OSX versions contained FreeBSD / Mach binaries that were later purged - these can be found through Homebrew, or some from XCode utilities. 😊

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@FrontLineNerd]

No Parallels!! Even if you think it’s working, it’s about to break. USE MS RDS. So much more stable.

[@allanseidel5070]

Have you not used Vivaldi as your web browser? If so then why choose Firefox over Vivaldi unless one is unwilling to learn a users browser?

[@graysonpeddie]

7:17 Yeah Discord requires me to enter my admin user/password in order to use Discord--just for the dumbest sake of installing updates... Yeah let's run Discord as a root user! Good one, Discord. Good one... You might as well prompt me for a username/password just to install malware in my Mac... No thanks. I uninstalled Discord because this "what's new" dialog in Discord bothers the crap out of me.

[@dragonek_gnu_linux_pl]

i just stop even thinking about use mac os when you started to talk about package managing and updating :D, Later was worse and worse when i saw article about virtualisation. I stay with my Debian gnome 12 or arch on second drive :)

[@thomasaquinas9550]

I have a windows machine only for my Itunes account, which is extremely large. I think the most frustrating thing is not being able to use Itunes on Linux without some sort of magic.

[@Technopath47]

FYI, your email address stops being blurred out at 12:53 when you transition scenes.

[@teachonlywhatiseasy]

i use mas cli in brew to upgrade mac apps. its not automated

[@heisenvader]

Hard to justify $120 a year for parallels when VMware workstation is free. Also gnome boxes works for free on my linux machine. Funny how spending time in the mac "ecosystem" brainwashes people into thinking this is a great deal.

[@johnyferreira8733]

Tabby is the best Terminal for Macs! 🎉

[@jakobw135]

Since both Mac OS and Linux are Unix based, will programs like Adobe for Apple, work on Linux - NATIVELY?

[@code8986]

No

[@jakobw135]

@@code8986 Why not?

[@code8986]

Because they are very different operating systems and application software (like the Adobe Creative Suite) is written to depend on OS-specific APIs, services, and libraries. Of course, software written for one platform (like macOS or Windows) can be ported to run on another (like Linux), but doing so takes time and money that many major publishers (like Adobe and Microsoft) are not willing to spend. And since the software is closed source, no other companies or developers (such as the FOSS community) are able to do it for them.

[@jakobw135]

@@code8986 The Apple hardware notwithstanding, isn't the Mac OS a variation of Unix, like Linux is?

[@code8986]

​@@jakobw135 Yes, macOS and Linux do have some similarities because of their common Unix ancestry, but they also have many differences. They have different kernels, different graphics stacks, different networking stacks, different filesystems, and most likely different disk I/O subsystems, as just a few examples. It's these differences that make any real software (a trivial command line program might be possible) written for one platform to not run -- without modification -- on the other. A program (e.g. Firefox) can be developed to be cross-platform, of course, but that takes extra time and effort, just like porting a program from one platform to another would take.

[@Noodles.FreeUkraine]

I think this video was a wonderful idea. Linux is great, but sometimes we may use it on servers and prefer macOS on our personal machines or have to use whatever our boss plunks down on our desk.

[@tommaso8517]

It would be very interesting and useful a video about installing Linux (Asahi Linux in particular) on an Apple Silicon Mac

[@yahtzee1990]

onenote

[@TerminalWorld]

Annoying swooshing sounds.

[@Marc42]

Sounds like heresy to me

[@arxaaron]

Subscription softwares are NEVER worth using, regardless of the cost.

[@DCM777.]

Don't need any of them.

[@tschorsch]

Don't forget caffeine!

[@gustafolsson5047]

Or amphetamine, caffeine + 1

[@jacobsoby3910]

You lost me at Mac

[@homerjones3490]

Sorry but you are very far away from understanding the Mac, what are the best apps. As you said you just bought blah blah. You are in NO position to recommend. You are only in a position TO LISTEN.

[@AmberRascalVtuber]

what is bro yappin about

[@homerjones3490]

@@AmberRascalVtuber You are the one yapping or quacking or something

[@Kivaagno]

I laughed at su⚡️du T-shirt (09:52) joke! OMG! Ich bin ein Nerd! 👨‍💻 Btw: I want bald Emojis … not fair 😂