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I think it's very nice to have a sibling who's interested in Linux just like you are.
Well the best thing about it is that she wouldn't even touch linux before this. She's primarily a mac user. But after I dragged her to see my desktop modifications, after 10 eye rolls, she said she could do much better job than me.
Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking... saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.
The good thing out of this was that now she's starting to see the point of linux after all these years.
Please keep us updated about how this is going to work out in the future.
I second this. It would be really nice to know.
Let's just ditch that MacOS.
Install Gentoo on her MacBook
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Oh man I relate to this so hard hahaha...
Do everything you can to try to preserve those settings, because you will need to do a clean install at some point (well maybe not, I'm sure it depends on your distro), and you're gonna lose all of it.