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MacOS is actually not a BSD as some people like to think. It is Unix, it used to be posix tested but it has never, ever been a BSD. MacOS is based on the mach kernel, a kernel that was intended to replace the BSD kernel for a GPL licensed Unix. Most of the people who wanted a GPL Unix just went with Linux in the end. We are still waiting to see what Hurd has to off though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)

https://en.softonic.com/articles/google-maps-goes-native-on-symbian

This is one of the only things I can find talking about it, but I’m sure I used Google maps with GPS on SymbianOS.

I had Google maps on my Nokia SymbianOS phone before the iPhone was released. It worked just as well as modern version but was I little clunkier to use without a touchscreen. I’m pretty sure that Palm Treos had it as well. There where also some other options, I kinda remember Garmin selling map packs for Palm devices. Smartphones existed before android and iPhone, even if they weren’t as widespread they were catching on with the broader consumer before the iPhone was released. You saw more more people getting blackberries for personal use instead of just business.

I have some SFF computers I plan on doing this to when the weather turns to crap.

Have you tried it? How is stability?

Those are my favorite blades

That’s fair. I don’t think I personally use ligatures anywhere and I’m not experiencing any issues with foot after using it for a few years so I might just have to stay blissfully ignorant on this one ;)

What do you use ligatures for?

Scribus has been around for a while, their UI looks like older versions of Microsoft Office. If you hover over the icon it will tell you what it does.

Maybe I’m older than you but scribus feels like comfort food, it isn’t loud and flashy and lets me focus on my work. I really don’t like the gigantic touch friendly buttons on desktop apps personally, so I hope they don’t go that way.

I cannot see any settings to change the toolbar size but I’m not a scribus wizard either.

Foot!

What distro ships my favorite term foot?

That’s actually pretty awesome. Bluetooth speakers are getting to the point where new features aren’t really being released, so features like this actually helps a brand stand apart.

You could also look into using sixel. It’s kinda like the kitty protocol but older and terminal agnostic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

If you base your opinion of vim from memes you are missing out. Anyone who can’t take 10 minutes to type vimtutor in their terminal is not someone to base an opinion on. These memes come mostly from impatient people that can’t read the docs. It’s a fantastic text editor.

That being said, it’s not meant to be used for written words it’s meant to write code and config files. You want to look for a word processor.

Abiword, etherpad, focuswciter are probably the next 3 biggest on Linux behind libre and open office.

Personally I prefer markdown for most things these days but it’s not exactly meant for word processing either.

This is the big thing that all these Nvidia comments miss. It’s not up to Wayland to support a given GPU. Nvidia is actively hostile to Linux users. If you aren’t making money with cuda there are zero reasons to choose Nvidia on a Linux machine over the competition. I’ve been on Wayland for almost a decade now and there’s no way I’m going back to X at this point.

Check out eaglemode

I did this about a decade ago for my parents. Upgraded their computer last year and they told me they wanted to keep Linux on the new machine.

My dad wasn’t convinced until his hoyle card games ran with wine though.

I subscribed to this channel for Linux news, not furry pics. I block furry communities because I don’t want to see this stuff, ever. I surely don’t want it to come through my ‘subscribed’ feed that I feel safe scrolling through at work. It’s just not the right community to post this imo. There are literally dozens of places for this content elsewhere on the fediverse let alone the rest of the net.

People wonder why Lemmy isn’t catching on with the general population but this is a prime example of why Lemmy feels kinda jank. I shouldn’t have to worry about weird fetishy cartoons on my tech community.

There was somebody on the Linux reddit with a self hostable ebook app just a week or so. It looked slick but wasn’t really that useful for me. Might be worth a look.