 There's something about me that you probably didn't know and that is that I used to be the biggest Apple fanboy in the world like I would seriously watch every single one of their events. I Still do But I watched every single one of their events and I was always excited about it And if I had the money at you know that point in my life I would buy as many of their devices as I possibly could and For the most part I didn't have that kind of money, but I always wanted to have that kind of money I was wanting to have I always Endeavored to be able to someday afford like I had this plan when I first started podcasting to buy The 2013 Mac Pro now that's the little trash can thing. I wouldn't touch that thing with a 10-foot pole now But when that first thing first came out, I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread I thought it was amazing. It was the future. I wanted one like I would I would seriously I'm gonna remember I was not very old at that point or at least I was younger And I would go onto their website I would buy or I would build you know in their configurator the best Mac Pro I could possibly build and just fantasize about how I was gonna one day own that computer Like I had no real use for that kind of power at that point and even now I really don't but man Did I want that thing? But now I'm a Linux user and I no longer need the highest end Hardware or anything like that whenever I buy a new phone. It's always a used phone Whenever I buy a new piece of hardware It's usually either used or a couple generations old at least for example that monitor that sits behind me in all My videos that thing is probably 15 years old now like I don't need top-of-the-line anymore So I have definitely Transitioned away from being an Apple fanboy and an Apple apologist But I still like I said watch their events and Oftentimes gates at their hardware like man, that is really cool hardware Like it's really like one thing that Apple does really well is they do design hardware They can really design hardware, right? So what I thought I would talk about today is Not how awesome Apple is but more about how Linux could learn from Apple and Mac OS so Here are the five things that Linux and the Linux community could learn from Apple and Mac OS Let's go ahead and jump in So the first one and I think that this is very important, but also Not necessarily something that is ever going to really play a role in the Linux community And that is pretty software cells So you can argue that Mac OS is not as functional as Linux I would argue that and I would also Say that there are many things with Mac OS that just are Other garbage like there's some things there that are just not good at all but one thing that you can't deny is that their aesthetic is at least somewhat pleasing and when you boot into a Mac for the first time and you see their design language That really does transition not only from the operating system But also into the applications that Mac OS runs you really get the sense that Things are meant to work very well together on this platform and they're supposed to all look like they're on the same platform One of the things on Linux that you can't say is that there is a cohesive design language There's not like every application looks different like Mildly different even if if you have two applications that will you know do the same thing They could look completely different and one of the things that Linux and the Linux Community and really the open-source community in general has a problem with is that They're not always the best designers when it comes to apps Usually their functionality is perfectly fine And I would argue that in some cases open-source software is superior to anything you would get on Mac OS But when it comes to the actual look and feel of these applications a lot of these things are subpar when it comes to things you'd find on Mac OS and some examples of this GIMP is a good one GIMP is Okay designed. It's definitely better than it used to be like 10 years ago when it was like four different panels or something like that And it was completely unusable But now it's better, but it still doesn't really look as nice as some of the options that you get on Mac OS And I'm not even just really talking about Photoshop I'm talking about other applications that you'd find on the Mac App Store Same thing with a lot of like video editors. Kate-in-Live is a kind of a hot mess compared to like Final Cut Pro You know, it's just it doesn't look as well. Now. I understand from a usability perspective Looks really don't matter like it doesn't really matter how Kate-in-Live looks or that it's overly complicated because it works It works really well but When you are trying to draw in new users one of the things that does matter is how your software looks and Think consistency and sometimes the Way that some Linux software and opens our software looks kind of dated does play a role in How people perceive Linux like when you open up For example audacity like let's just I always show you actually audacity right now Audacity would look the same on Mac OS as it does here, but this is the premier audio recording Software on Linux we have other options for sure But this is the one that most people use and it looks like it was developed for Windows 95 You know what I mean, and it's still perfectly functional. It definitely is But it looks old and it's not the only Example of that out there a lot of Linux or open-source software It just kind of looks old So pretty software is something that Linux could learn from or at least open source could learn from the next one on the list Is that installation of software should be easy and when I say easy? I mean it should be drag and drop easy I talked about app images on the podcast this previous week and one of the things that I said was that app images had a chance to be the way of Installing software on Linux literally you drag and drop it to an applications folder and it runs You know, that's the way it works on Mac when you download a piece of software on Mac, whether it's Whatever it is like you download it from the web and it just comes up on your desktop You open up the thing you drag into a folder. It's installed. That's the way Installing software really should work at least when you're trying to download something away from a store when you're installing something from a store It's different obviously, but if you're downloading something from the web being able to drag that application from Where you downloaded it into your application folder and just having it installed? That's an amazing way of installing software and that's the way it works on Mac OS for the most part and has for years now Obviously, there are some exceptions where there's windows style wizards and stuff like that But for the most part you download a DMG or whatever. It's called you double click on that It shows you a window and it tells you what to do drag from here to here and it's installed That's awesome. And it's not hard is the thing is the one of things that's a problem on Linux is that we have 50,000 different ways of installing software. Obviously that is an over exaggeration Don't message me in the comments saying we don't really have 50,000. I understand we don't have 50,000 I was being hyperbolic. It doesn't matter We have a lot of ways of installing software and we've tried to come up with ways that are cross distro in order to install Software better snaps flat packs app images. These are all attempts by developers to make and song software easier Across distros like we've tried It hasn't always necessarily worked flat packs and snaps have probably come the closest But for the most part people still rely on their distro given package manager in order to install software Most people do and there's nothing really wrong with that but from a new user perspective That is messy because especially if you change distros as a new user quite often like if you go from Manjaro to Ubuntu or back and forth whatever those things have different package managers And you can't go into Manjaro and do sudo app install. You can't go into Ubuntu and use sudo packman dash capitalist You know, I mean they're different things and if you don't know that they're different things That's going to be a hurdle for you to get past So installing software on Linux is a mess and it could be better similar to what it is on Mac OS The next one is in a similar vein in that one thing that Mac has done really well is created a store That is really good like it has a lot of software in it Now I know developers have had a lot of problems with the Mac app store over the years And it definitely takes a lot of money from developers and you can argue about all the flaws like it definitely has flaws I'm not saying any of this stuff is perfect I'm just saying that the Mac app store is a great central place to download applications for the Mac now Obviously, there's just one Mac OS. So They don't have a problem creating one, you know app store and saying here's where you get your apps That's just the way to do it when you have 300 Linux distributions It's much harder to create a central place to download applications Because we can't first of all we can't agree on anything. We're never going to we're never gonna all sit down and say hey flat packs That's the way to go definitely not the way it's going to work, but we could somehow maybe come to an agreement where there is a Front end that kind of accesses all the different package Places like snaps and flat packs and app images like one Store that just kind of works with all of those things. Maybe this thing could also tie into The distro centric package management systems and repositories that would allow you to then kind of have a front-end that works with every distribution It would be a app store that just kind of exists on every Linux distribution that could then be used to download software It looks the same It doesn't really matter where the software comes from because most users don't care just long as they can get their software And then it just works, you know, they don't have to deal with having the GNOME Software Center on Ubuntu They don't have to have the elementary app store the PAMAC on Ubuntu, whatever or not on Ubuntu on Manjaro You know, you have 12 different app stores. They all look different. They all have different functionalities Some of them work better than others. It's a mess having one that kind of goes across all distributions works well with all the different back ends would be a great way of Having software just again very easy to install the next one on the list is that Hardware really matters one thing Apple really does well is they create fantastic hardware and Whether you like them or not, you know, especially since how they're obviously really expensive, you know They're not definitely not for everyone, but even people who can't afford them or Have no interest really in spending that much money on something they can still admire the fact that this hardware is really really good and Because they own the entire software stack and the hardware stack they allow those things to work really well together and Linux, I don't know how they would go about doing this like there are some or at least there's one good example of a hardware manufacturer that's doing something similar than that and that's systems 76 they Manufacture hardware and they've made their own distribution to go on it They work really well together and that's kind of a good thing, right? One of the things we always talk about when we talk about the proliferation of the Linux desktop is that in order for it to actually happen Hardware needs to happen people need to be able to go into Best Buy or Amazon or whatever and buy a piece of hardware Would Linux on it? That's not something that you can really do right now and until you can do that Linux won't be very popular at least in the mainstream So hardware really doesn't matter, but it's really more than that Like we have hardware vendors that make Linux hardware like some of it's really very good some of it is Pretty cheaply made because they have to source it from other companies and stuff like that So one of the things that Apple does really well is they make really premium hardware and stuff that people Aspire to own like remember my story about the Mac Pro earlier in the video people aspire to own that machine or the new Mac Pro that's looks way better people aspire to it and You can't really say that there's very much hardware out there in the Linux ecosystem That people aspire to the last thing on the list is that arm is the future And I think that out of all the ones that I put on this list. This is the One that Linux open source really truly already gets like I think that of the vast majority of Linux distros The maintainers of the Linux distros a lot of the software and hardware vendors They know that arm is going to be the future of Computing like when you buy a computer 10 years from now it's almost guaranteed to be an aren't based processor of some kind and We know that because at least at this point in time arm does a fantastic job of creating Mobile worthy processors that can run desktop class software Without sacrificing things like battery life and performance like you you can buy a mem one or M2 MacBook and run everything you want to run it while simultaneously getting battery life that extends You know into the double digits of hours something that you can't do with a Intel or AMD processor It's just not possible yet and while it's possible that Intel and AMD will get their shit together and create processors that can either mimic or Surpass the arm-based processors that Apple uses. It's possible at the moment Arm seems to be the direction where that kind of functionality is going to go like if you want high performance Without the power costs of the traditional processors arm is just way better And it seems like it's going to continue being self or the foreseeable future So I think that already like I said a lot of Linux distros They have arm versions and they've worked to make their distributions and the Linux kernel and all this stuff work on arm It works really well like things like you could buy a Raspberry Pi and run a full-fledged Linux distributions on there And as of right now, it's almost So good. You can actually use that as a daily driver. It's not quite there yet But another generation or so and who knows you could use a Raspberry Pi as your daily computer It could be possible. So we know that from a software standpoint Linux distributions are at least thinking about how they can Make their distributions and Linux in general work well on arm And I think that that is a good thing But I also think that there's a good chance that if that Development doesn't speed up a little bit that Linux could be left behind as more and more hardware transitions to arm if the functionality and Ability for Linux doesn't keep up with that speed of the hardware It might become harder for Linux to actually run on some devices now It's possible that Linux could keep up or even Surpass the other operating systems that are out there in terms of arm capability But it's also possible that they could fall behind and that is something that scares me just a little bit Like if Linux doesn't keep up with the development in order to keep arm support there Where it needs to be for the vast majority of hardware that comes out It would be A shame because as of right now if you want to run Linux on a computer you can do so Pretty much any computer that's out there as long as it runs an intel or an AMD processor You can put Linux on no problem pretty much any computer that has ever existed You could put Linux on without any issue But when it comes to arm there are problems because the development just Hasn't been there yet for that kind of sought hardware support So Linux the Linux kernel supports a huge variety of pc hardware That support for arm hardware is still really small If the pool of arm hardware Grows faster than the support the Linux kernel can give to it That means that you could go out and buy an arm computer But not be able to install Linux on it And that is a little bit scary because if everything goes arm in the future And you can't install Linux on everything like you can right now with Linux on everything that is Intel and AMD Then where does that leave Linux? You know, it's kind of out in the cold Some of that is paranoia. I will just put that right out there right now But it's just something that I worry about just a little bit if Arm continues to be the thing and Linux doesn't keep up that hardware support That is known for What are we all going to do, you know, so anyway, so those are the five things that Linux and open source can learn from mac os and apple And i'm sure there are other things and I should just put this out there I'm not saying you should go buy a mac or an apple A product of any kind in fact, I think that the apple has a lot of flaws when it comes to privacy and being a monopoly, you know They have many flaws and mac os definitely is not perfect to has many flaws. I would not use it You know, that's the thing is like despite my admiration for some of the things that mac os does I wouldn't use it. I love linux. I want linux to have Some of the things that mac os has I think we could do well with emulating some of the things that apple does But also linux is free and open source software And I wouldn't want the future of linux to be anything but free and open source So I wouldn't want them to completely adopt to apple way of doing things That would be horrible and it would make me not want to use linux anymore So I don't want anybody out there to think well Matt's an apple fanboy. He wants linux to become like the mac And I'm gonna unsubscribe from his channel now. 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