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Was thinking about jumping ship but:

- MacBook Air is still lovely (once ahem I had keyboard fixed)

- Basic productivity tools on Linux - eg email or word processing - still suck and I want native apps for such things.

Any solution?

For email and word processing, it depends on what you've previously used. I would say that LibreOffice is quite all right for word processing. Also have a look at FreeOffice (https://www.freeoffice.com/en/) which aims for great compatibility with MS Office.

For an email client, I personally use the GMail web client nowadays, but I've used Thunderbird for a long time and it's fine (not as polished and good looking as Mail.app on MacOS though).

Why is it free? What's the catch?

Ads, premium features?

Geary and google docs

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