Top 13 Mac Apps Every Linux User Will Love

Not all Linux users are able to use their primary platform all the time. At work, a situation such as corporate mandates can force you to use another operating system. For those of you that use a Mac to perform your System Administrator duties, this video counts down 13 apps that you might want to consider.

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04:37 - Firefox
05:51 - Raspberry Pi Imager
06:27 - MacUpdater
08:11 - Standard Notes
09:57 - MacVim
10:33 - Parallels Desktop
11:40 - SyncThing
12:45 - Bitwarden
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[oscs]

Homebrew is a must for me on Mac machines

[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.

[JohnNo]

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

[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.

[eugenesmirnov]

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

[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.

[Practical-IT]

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

[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.

[RadioTeal]

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.

[rohan]

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

[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.

[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

[mr.t]

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)

[UnwalledGarden]

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

[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?

[teachonlywhatiseasy]

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

[thomasaquinas]

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.

[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.

[allanseidel]

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?