Migration to Linux: Migration Plan
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Apps and their replacements
| macOS | Linux | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Photos (iPhoto) | digiKam | Make sure you add the face recognition plugin and write the tags back to the files. |
| Music (iTunes) | Lollypop, Rhythmbox, Audacious, | My favourite is Rhythmbox, the Interface is the most simple and iTunes-like. |
| Safari, Firefox, Chrome | Brave | Jean-Paul, what happened to Cliqz? |
| QuickTime Player | VLC | Add h.264 codecs! |
| Omnigraffle | LibreOffice Draw | Not as cool, but free and compatible with the rest of the world! |
| Pages, Numbers, Keynote, MS Office | LibreOffice | -
fine! |
| Mail, Thunderbird | KMail/Kontact PIM | No solution for M365-/Exchange accounts (w/o purchasable plugins)! |
| KeePass XC | Just store your KeePass XC-Database in Nextcloud-Files. If you're ambitious think about setting up a Bitwarden server. | |
| iCloud | NextCloud | Hint: Floccus is great tool for syncing bookmarks, and there's a great Outlook-Plugin to sync if you're forced to work with Windoof at work… |
| Finder | Dolphin | |
| Merlin Project | ? | ? |
| TextMate | Kate, Geanie | |
| Books | Why was there a dedicated app for the job? | |
| VMWare Fusion | Virtual Machine Manager, QEMU/KVM, libvirtio | Not as slick but works just as fine! |
| Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo | Gimp | I can't believe I paid for that functionality before! |
| Cyberduck | FileZilla | Okay, FileZilla has a crappy UI, but it does the job; and we are techies, so using a CLI-based ftp-client should not be an issue… |
| OpenSCAD | OpenSCAD | Just the same on Linux. |
| Cura | Cura | Just the same on Linux. |
| Fritzing | Fritzing | Just the same on Linux. |
| GraphicConverter | ImageMagick | |
| WireShark | WireShark | Just the same on Linux. |
| yEd | yEd | Just the same on Linux. |
| Sequel Pro, DBVisualizer | DBeaver | Yet another Eclipse-based Database Manager. |
| Linkinus | HexChat | IRC, for you WhatsApp-fools! |
| iMovie | Kdenlive? | More: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Videobearbeitung/ |
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Here is a comprehensive list of applications for various purposes: https://www.debian.org/blends/