Zukking Apple... How to go about back up so its Linux compatible?

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Hello All, Hope the New year is treating you well.

So I have just spent ages transferring many years of Apple laptop use to a back up external hard drive thats set up to plug into both apple and windows computers.

I now realise that the formats apple saves to are not compatible with Linux or windows. and i have already deleted alot of files after backing them up on the external HD.

So I have been trying to convert Notes, pages, and MOV… etc to linux compatible formats. Its not easy. At least thats my experience. Is there a means where one can just drag an apple format file into an app and it automates the conversion so its nice n simple (If not would it be hard to make one? Would be great as im pretty sure the difficulty in this regard keeps alot of people locked in)?

Any body backed up an Apple computer to an external HD in order to shift to Linux? I could do with some advice.

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all multimedia files work if you install the appropriate libraries, ffmpeg should be already installed and if you install VLC it will ask you to install all the needed libraries might be missing

for the other files you go along every case, there may be an application that can open them and others should be convertible to an open source format, there is no “Linux format”

make a list of the types you are trying to open

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Very help full thank you.