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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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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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