It’s not that easy to just choose not to use something. (I wish it were.) That’s the monopoly.

It’s going to be so hard to disentangle everything especially when already overwhelmed with other life admin. I have no idea if I even can degoogle or deMicrosoft because it’s such a large complex organisational task and risks me not being able to do things I need to.

I know right now I’m probably not going to be able to play favourite online games if I can’t get them to work in Linux.

And the files I tried sending from a non Windows computer (Mac) aren’t able to be opened on the other end. Kind of important when communicating with organisations.

I think what I’m going to do is break it down in steps.

I have to grab back all my pictures and files from the cloud to local storage before a deadline, I’ve got them off One Drive into a differently named folder so it can’t yoink it back but this computer is getting really full. It won’t handle more from other online storage.

So I’ll back up my old desktop.

Install whatever Linux that has a legit iso.

Then get everything onto there.

Then when there’s time I can try to use Wine or whatever to see if I can get my games working. (These can’t be replaced by a pack of cards and I don’t have the ability or wish to join a tabletop gaming group.)