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.
It might be possible, but you can be sure that Apple made it as inconvenient as they technically could. They try their best to lock everyone in. You’re probably better off getting some kind of Apple box to manage those machines.
Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me. I can technically get an Apple box, but my boss might be a little upset with me for losing that functionality on my PC, and might want me to revert to Windows.
my work PC […] isn’t powerful enough
Ask a more powerful work PC, that’ll be cheaper for them than you tinkering for hours.
A few options
1,Getting a Mac with apple silicon and install asahi , dual boot. 2. Add a new SSD and some ram to your current one and enable virtualization in bios. Might need a bios update as well. 3 Dual boot windows , might want to check out https://ameliorated.io/ 4 Get a old crappy Mac just for the itunes. 5. Use the Linux tools mentioned earlier
- Throw away your Apple devices. Fuck that walled garden.
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.
https://asahilinux.org/ but sure no roms for iphones
https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS
you can restore on Linux i think, but you have to use the cli
Correct.
There is also iFuse and iMobileDevice
What’s your computer specification?
You can start the restore/factory reset from the phone. But if you need iTunes after, then you probably have to run windows in a vm like qemu. Also might want to pass trough ‘usb hub’ to that wm. Wich if the usb controller share several ports you would want to use mouse and kb on different usb-controller.
