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A clear purpose and clear expectations help. It’s important to remember why using Linux is valuable. It’s what keeps us pushing through, even when it gets tough. It also helps to know that not everything will work right out of the box. And, to an extent, one can assume that that is the cost of using Linux.

One thing that inspires me is Snowden’s quote that says something like “We won’t win with features, but with ethical convictions”.

Now, as to what steps to take, focus on safe-to-fail experiments. Start by making relatively small changes, even within the Apple ecosystem:

Safari to Firefox
Pages / Word / Numbers / Excel to LibreOffice
Photos to Ente or whatever you want to use

Once these changes are part of daily life, you can attempt a transition to Linux.

The idea here is to make change sustainable.

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LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Excellent advice!

I’d like to add to the list:

Calendar, Contacts - Nextcloud (via cal/cardDAV)

Bookmark (and tab?) sync via Firefox Sync (or similar)

AirDrop to Syncthing

Check whatever other software and features she uses daily for work, communication, or leisure, and make sure it either exists on the Linux side or there’s a viable alternative, and get her used to that first

I’d only make the switch once you’ve made sure that

she knows why she’s doing this, and is determined to. Doing it because you made her is bound to lead to failure.

you know all the features and software she’s used to and have tested and established a working alternative.
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- wltr@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  AirDrop = LocalSend
  
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  - LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It depends what you want from this.
    
    LocalSend shines with single files that you specifically select.
    
    Syncthing is great for zero-hassle synchronisation of multiple files and even entire folders.
    
    Personally, I prefer the latter because it’s much more powerful. Also, I’ve experienced issues with LocalSend and VPN usage.
    
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  - Creat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    This is such bad advice. If you tell people that, people expect it too work like AirDrop, which it doesn’t.
    
    LocalSend is great, but it is much more limited than AirDrop. As the name suggest, it only works if people are in the same network. If you’re in your home network, and both devices are yours, that’s probably fair enough, but that isn’t the point or (only) use case of AirDrop.
    
    Also if you’re installing it on a Linux machine which happens to have a firewall enabled by default, you will have to open the correct ports for it to to work out even just see the other devices.
    
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Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I would really focus on what features she likes of the Apple ecosystem and replace those. For me, I started being in the Apple ecosystem because all my colleagues used it and it was kind of expected for me to fit in. So no amount of “you can replace this with that” could have convinced me.

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