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Diyana | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Apology accepted. When I feel overwhelmed technically I get frustrated. I've never run Linux. I have no idea what to expect and what the learning curve would be. Whether the type of docs and apps I use would be usable etc. :/
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captain | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 what apps and docs do you need?
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Diyana | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Opening word docs for instance. 
Mail - that means I'd have to reset it all over again
Dropbox my passwords app etc.
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captain | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 - LibreOffice supports all office document formats
- are you not using a web mail client like most people nowadays? either way, there are free open source desktop mail clients available
- part of the journey is breaking away from the cloud where big tech owns your online identity
- syncthing is the ideal solution for file storage, but a lot of people use nextcloud because it's closer to the cloud drive experience they have become used to
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Diyana | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Thank you, for these resources. If I go this route will come to this and probably have questions or more so for sure. 
It does seem like a good idea if I am going to do a reset to also break further away from big tech though not quite sure how that works.
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captain | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 baby steps. think about it as a five year journey
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captain | 7 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 in terms of the learning curve, it's best to take it slow and run both systems simultaneously for a while while migrating. your best short term fix is take the advice given in this thread and factory reset the macbook. if it's still having problems, then the hardware is probably damaged and best to move on