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by pino82 559 days ago
That wouldn't be wise. Everyone who does everything in the cloud (a.k.a. other people's computers), like Ms 365, Teams, Youtube, Tiktok, Instagram, Google Mail, Google Maps, Google Spreadsheets, WhatsApp, etc, ... should think twice. There is no gain for them. It's all outside of their control anyways. They gave away their sovereignty to the point the OS does not matter at all. They should stay where they are and not burn their (and others') time with learning a new OS. Linux doesn't need those people, and those people don't need Linux. Make more Insta Reels instead. Everyone is happier then.
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anthk 559 days ago
You can use GMail with any client with IMap. Youtube has several frontends. Libreoffice it's far more featureful than Docs and Spreadsheets. Google Maps? Organic Maps works offline and you can always use OSM maps with just GPS support to orient yourself in a disaster.

These people will get burned and want their computers and media back.

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pino82 559 days ago
Okay, you can use GMail and Youtube with other frontends. Doesn't change much, though. If you are just using cloud services, you are better off staying at whatever OS you use.

> These people will get burned

They decided this way. I can remember when the Facebook plague began. There was no real need to start living _inside_ Facebook, but most people did. They want their stuff back now? That's ridiculous. 15 years of social media didn't make them smarter in any ways. They want to get deeper and deeper, and I'm not going to stop them.

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