I switched from Windows a few years ago, and I had the hardest time getting used to moving/maximizing/resizing windows on Mac.

Not sure if that’s what you mean, but if so then “Rectangle” solved all my window management problems, so much so I bought the pro version almost immediately.

If you’re talking about MacOS, I’ve been using Maccy for this

As someone who used primarily windows for 20+ years, used the surface pro line from the 1st through 7th iterations, and now only runs with a MacBook Air, I would say absolutely get the cheapest M1 Air you can find.

If she’s not a heavy user and is just doing word processing and light computing, it will be vastly more than enough machine, and be best in class in the most important things I can think of when thinking about a laptop for a writer:

1. nice big, bright, high res display for crisp text and easy reading/writing

2. insane amounts of battery life for writing in cafes or libraries or wherever for probably longer than she could stand to work in any given day

3. nicely portable and discreet for carrying around to places where she can write

4. decent keyboard and possibly the best laptop trackpad around for ergonomics (such as they are, in a laptop)

Getting used to MacOS will take a few days at most, and there are plenty of free/Foss apps to improve quality of life for Windows users moving to macs.

Thank you for this post; there’s a lot of this that I didn’t know, and I’ve always had a vague anti-PETA sentiment without really knowing why.

I have both (they both can coexist peacefully on the same library). I use jellyfin for any watching on my phone or computer.

However, where jellyfin still really kind of falls apart is when casting to my Chromecast. Controls don’t work, subtitles are unpredictable or missing, and it’s just generally a mess.

So I use Plex for casting, and jellyfin for everything else. I bought a Plex lifetime pass ages ago, so it’s an easy call to just have them both running.

:( if you’re looking for a foster or someone to take her, where are you located?

This will change the behavior.

https://github.com/odlp/bluesnooze