[dopeboy]

Ubuntu user since the 5.04 days. The vertical integration the apple ecosystem offers is incredible and not something linux can ever compete with. I see my fiancee use her iphone with her apple tv and her mac - everything connects together, seamlessly. There are walled garden elements to it but look, I'm done fighting the FOSS fight I waged in my late teens and early 20s. I got work to do, my life to live, etc.

My advice to the Ubuntu, Fedora, etc teams: focus ruthlessly on creating a smooth experience for the office/enterprise clientele who mostly use a narrow set of hardware (thinkpads x/t, dell inspirons, etc). Get this to a place where everything just works and lobby partners when it doesn't. Example from two days ago: shared my screen on zoom, clicked to stop screen sharing and the UI on my side didn't update. So another attendee went to share their screen and I couldn't see it - I had to rejoin. Worst still, that happens intermittently.

That said, I'm personally bearish on this ever happening against a much more well funded incumbent that is now producing ground breaking hardware with the M1s, etc.

[LeFantome]

I am not arguing really. I think you are mostly right.

That said, I use Zoom daily on Manjaro and have not had that happen. It happened to me just last week on my iPhone though.

While I love Airplay, I use Plex to stream media not only to my iPhone and the Apple TV downstairs but also to my Roku, my LG TV, an Amazon Fire stick, and my son’s Android tablet. Even after buying expensive apps, I could never get AirPlay working on the Fire stick or the LG TV ( the places my wife wants to watch ).

[awilfox]

I found Jellyfin to be a great media server. Its client is so nice and works on Roku. Not sure about LG TVs. It's libre and .NET so it runs anywhere – including my Mac server :)

[kaba0]

I think this integration is overblown, given that my experience is not complete (I own an iphone, an apple watch and use a mac book).

There are some cool features like clipboard being shared between my computer and my phone, but e.g. sending a website between the two machines is “half-baked”, as it simply shares a link, which is pretty useless when I want to continue reading the hn thread from the same point I left it on my other device. Opening the same link can be “hacked” into android and kdeconnect just as well, it’s not some difficult thing.

Focus mode and friends are yet again, quite trivial. I can accept that the ipad as an external screen thingy is cooler that these examples, but I don’t have experience with that.

[dhzhzjsbevs]

Email zoom your info. They have excellent Linux support and staff work to resolve issues quickly.