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maple<a href="https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rasterweb</a> Well the problem is there is nothing in <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> exactly like Apple's Time Machine. In particular, nothing includes the "Migration Assistant" functionality that is based on having a current Time Machine backup. In terms of GUI, the closest thing I ever came across was a program called <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cronopete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cronopete</a>, but I never actually used it.Many people, myself included, use two programs. I use <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Timeshift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Timeshift</a> to back up the system and the root directory (the latter because it changes very infrequently) and I set it to make a backup once or twice a week. Then, to back up my user directory, I use <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/BackInTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackInTime</a> and have it set to make a backup every four hours. Of course these are incremental backups, in both cases my understanding is that (much like Time Machine) only data that has been added or changed since the previous backup is actually saved to the backup drive.Timeshift has one glaring fault in that you can tell it how often to backup, but not WHEN to do the backups. There is a workaround (<a href="https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/how-to-force-timeshift-to-schedule-backups-at-a-specific-time-of-day/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://twosortoftechguys.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/how-to-force-timeshift-to-schedule-backups-at-a-specific-time-of-day/</a>) but why they don't give you this ability in the Timeshift GUI is beyond me.I have also never understood why it is recommended to run both programs to back up different parts of the system, or why no one has developed one program that does it all. I guess technically you can set Timeshift to back up everything but nobody seems to recommend that, and I don't really understand why. I THINK both Timeshift and BackInTime use rsync "under the hood". And there are several other <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/backup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#backup</a> programs, those are just the two I have seen recommended most often for Linux users.

maple<a href="https://gamerstavern.online/@therealahall" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@therealahall</a> I am in kind of the same situation, I am starting the process of transitioning from a <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mac</a> to a <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> system running <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a> 24.04 (but I also installed <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/QuickEMU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QuickEMU</a> so I can run a different distro or even Windows or @MacOS in a virtual machine if I really want to). Some things seem to work fine but differently enough to be maddening, for example I run Firefox on both systems and have it configured pretty much the same (so links open in new tabs) but if I send a link to Firefox in MacOS from another application it opens the link in a new tab AND brings Firefox to the foreground. In Ubuntu it still opens the link in a new tab but Firefox remains in the background, so I think nothing has happened and click the link several times (each time opening yet another tab that I don't see) until it dawns on me that this is Linux and I have to click the Firefox icon in the dock.In MacOS I an used highlighting a media file or image or text file in Finder and hitting the spacebar and having it display in QuickLook. In whatever Ubuntu's equivalent of Finder is, that doesn't happen.For a terminal program I am using <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Tabby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tabby</a> but while it is pretty good it is no <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/iTerm2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iTerm2</a>. Again it's little things that just work in iTerm2 that don't in Tabby. I have heard there are better programs, I would like to find one that lets you display your profiles in a sidebar like iTerm2 does (so you can just double click` on one to open a new tab using that profile).For Mastodon I am trying <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Tuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tuba</a> but what I don't like about it is it doesn't save your place in the (home) timeline so you can go back to reading where you left off, reading oldest to newest.For a <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSS</a> reader I am trying Fluent Reader (in place of Vienna in MacOS), it is okay but I wish that in Magazine View it would give you the choice to display the full text of articles, like Vienna does. Also it doesn't have an option to let you undo a "mark all read" operation in case you do that by mistake.In place of Little Snitch I am using <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/OpenSnitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSnitch</a>, it seems to work quite well other than that it doesn't honor the system theme.I use <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Joplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Joplin</a> in place of Apple Notes and highly recommend it, I have been using it now for quite some time. I use <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Timeshift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Timeshift</a> and <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/BackInTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackInTime</a> instead of Time Machine to do backups, don't really get why you're supposed to use Timeshift for system backups and BackInTime for home directory backups but they seem to work so I am okay with them. If you are looking for something that looks more like Time Machine there is <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/Cronopete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cronopete</a> but I am not sure if it is still being actively developed.At the moment it just seems like there are a bunch of small annoyances (such as notification sounds not being loud enough in some applications even though the system sound volume is all the way up). In time I am sure I will work through several of them (and already have done so with some, such as finding the Gnome extension that puts system notifications up on the upper right of the screen instead of the middle, and another that actually makes them stay on the screen long enough to be read!) but I have several things I am trying to get done at once so for the moment getting Ubuntu fully configured is kind of on the back burner. Anyway, if you find any apps you think do a great job of replacing equivalent MacOS apps I would be interested in hearing about them!

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