I have Linux Mint installed on my work PC. As I work with IT I am sometimes tasked with doing stuff like restoring Iphones and such, which is normally done through Itunes. But there’s no Linux support for Itunes, and I haven’t been able to install it through Wine. I also can’t use a VM as my PC isn’t powerful enough for it. I’m hoping there’s a solution for this, as I will have to re-install Windows if I can’t get it to work on Linux, and I really want to avoid that.
Wine can’t properly access USB devices, so even if you got iTunes installed, it wouldn’t work.
I’m sceptical that a VM is out of the question, one should run on almost anything, though not necessarily perform well. I would give it an attempt, if you didn’t already.
Still, it might be simplest to set up a windows install with itunes on a usb, or second partition, and boot into windows only when you need to.
It’s possible to install Windows onto a USB? I ask b/c once in a blue moon I need a Windows install for mouse firmware updates or something.
Should be. A USB drive is a storage device like any other. Shouldn’t matter that it isn’t connected via SATA or NVME.
One would think, but so you haven’t actually done it, have you? Because I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure I tried to install Windows onto a USB drive one time. I couldn’t get the installer to show the USB drive. I really want to be wrong, though.
Apparently windows doesn’t like it, but it can be done using Rufus or WinToUSB.
IDK if you can have a live windows usb, but virtualbox is great for that sort of thing.
I’m also curoious how bad of a computer OP has if it’s unable to run a VM
It still has a Windows 7 sticker on it.
It probably just needs some more RAM installed.
I am using thinkpad t430 with 8 gig of ram ,with virt-manager and qemu and have installed windows 10 with after script to delete all bloatware to make system more snappy and more responding u can easily USB pass through I phones in there for iTunes,for accessing just file on iPhone u can use ifuse