🎁 indicates a nixpkgs
package.
macOS Program | Linux alternative |
---|---|
Notes | Notes web app, Cryptee |
Reminders | TickTick |
Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office running on Windows in VirtualBox on NixOS, Google Docs/Sheets/Slides, libreoffice🎁 |
Time Machine Backups | Rsync backup on linux🎁 |
Menu Bar apps | gnomeExtensions.appindicator🎁 and GNOME extensions installed via chromium🎁 from https://extensions.gnome.org/ |
Music, TV, Books and Podcasts (iTunes) | clementine🎁, iTunes on a Windows in VirtualBox on NixOS, spotify🎁 |
File sharing (iCloud/DropBox/Google Drive/OneDrive) | dropbox🎁 (it might be possible to get the others working but DropBox works the best out of the box on NixOS) |
Sometimes webapps are the nicest option for some program, using Brave/Chromium/Google Chrome’s “More Tools” > “Create Shortcut” > “Open as window” option is quite useful. gnome3.epiphany🎁 also has nice support for single page web apps.