> I own Linux

Does idevicebackup/idevicerestore not work anymore?

But agreed, there's no technical reason why the phone can't just accept normal USB-connected storage and store a file in there (in whatever proprietary/encrypted format it wants, but at least the _storage_ is standards-compliant).

It seems to be actively maintained, so I would assume it still works:

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

The backup part definitely works, I haven't tried the restore part.

You can run macOS or Windows inside a VM on Linux.

Tecnically yes but slow as hell and you are using a software you are not licensed for in this case.

From Linux you literally cannot

>I own Linux.

That's the trouble with these niche desktop platforms, people don't write software for them.

Is windows also niche?

You can backup your phone to a Windows machine (using iTunes).

I think he meant iOS.