I am thinking about to deGoogleing and leave Apple. On my mac I would probably a Linux-Version (Pear?) and get a Fairphone with e/OS.
Now, what can I expect from e/OS? For instance I have tons of photos on my iPhone and I want to migrate them AND would I be happy to have similar features for getting them in order: Face recognition to sort by person is most valuable and also the other AI features. Is something like this possible with e/OS?
Also I certainly like to have all my contacts, calendar, notes synchronized with my future Linux laptop (I have not yet a clue of Linux). What kind of cloud solution is most convenient for this?
Also I love Airdrop in the Apple ecosystem. Is something like this possible with e/EO and Linux?
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I have just done almost the same as you except I was already using Linux on my laptops. As I already needed to share between Linux and the Apple ecosystem, I already used other secure apps that made the transition easier. I was already using ProtonMail for my email, calendar and limited photo backup using Proton Drive. I had already exported all of my photos to local storage but, am still in the process of organizing these. I use Proton Drive to backup current photos and share them between devices. I exported all my contacts from the phones and re-imported then to the new FP5’s without any problem using VCF format.
Having gone through this process, I realise the great job that Apple did of trapping us all within their eco-system by making so many little tasks that take just a little bit more effort if you take responsibility for them yourself, so incredibly streamlined and easy. When you decide to take back control, it does involve quite a bit of time ad effort. It has taken me weeks to extract all of our data from icloud, delete most of our Apple accounts and tidy up and organise the data on local devices, and re-locate some for sharing.
Concerning Apple Notes, which I also used quite a bit, I just went through them and deleted everything that I didn’t need. I then transferred anything that I wanted to keep to Standard Notes which I was already using. And then I had all my notes when I installed Standard Notes on the FP5.
I have always used LibreOffice and not Pages / Numbers so, I am not sure about compatibility with other systems. I believe MS Office can import them but, not sure?
I am very glad that I detached myself from Apple. We are very happy with our FP5 phones. My next step is to get an e/os tablet purchased and setup. I know which one to buy that should install e/os fairly easily - and I have got a lot of advice from other members on this. The pre-installed e/os tablets are not available for sale currently from the Murena Shop, or I would have just bought one from there. I hardly use my ipad any more but, would like to completely retire it.
Despite all the effort in getting to this point, I am very happy that I did it and just wished that I had done it much sooner.
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