I'd have assumed that people would flee from iTunes given the chance :) Perhaps it's improved in the years since I last used it (bought an iPhone when they wer

I'd have assumed that people would flee from iTunes given the chance :) Perhaps it's improved in the years since I last used it (bought an iPhone when they were the New Hotness here in Australia) but I doubt it. When I migrated off iOS I encoded my iTunes music to .ogg, which was a pretty good experience. I don't know what the state of the art is now though. According to the forums, YNAB runs in Linux on WINE. Also people have reported some success with Fluenz on WINE as well. For music I run Spotify, which has a good Linux client these days. I'll grant you it isn't always easy, or even possible, but there are usually alternatives.