Ramin Honary

@baritone_edge Some of the “hardening” that @ZacBelado is talking about is making sure not to report any information about plugins, installed fonts, or other things, it produces a false report when this information is requested. Also @Apollo2323 LibreWolf forges its signature, making itself appear to be like that of Chrome running on Windows. Occasionally while I use it, I see websites conform themselves to this signature, e.g. offering me Windows versions of apps to download.

I have also heard LibreWolf praised by differently-abled people for its good accessibility features as well.

@ajsadauskas @technology good prediction. This is basically what they always do with every overly-hyped technology.

@nuclide has setup their Linux desktop in the most Lispy way possible: #GuileScheme bindings in order to program the #Wayland compositor (DWL) and the status bar (DTao), #Nyxt for the web browser (#CommonLisp bindings to #webkit ) and #Emacs as the text editor.

The only way you could be more truly a #Lisp fan is if you ran an emulator of the CADR Lisp Machine and used ZMacs as your text editor instead, and annoyingly argue with everyone that Scheme is not actually Lisp (cough @amszmidt cough)

https://lemmy.world/post/10112192

@weirdwriter @foss

there was a Linux distro for writers but it appears to be dead. Anyone have links to similar distros for non technical writers?

I think if you are going to create software that is “for X” (e.g. for writers, for music producers, for electricians, etc.) a Linux distro is not the correct category of tool to use. A better tool would be a “software suite,” or a “metapackage.” For this, you should just install a common Linux distribution like Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Pop!_OS, and then search that distro’s software repository for a writers metapackage, or packages tagged with writers tools.

According to that article you linked, you really just need 4 applications: LyX, GIMP, “gv”, and Dillo, all of which are available in the Ubuntu repository.

A Linux distro is not a software package at all, really, it is a service. It is a group of people that provide a reliable and up-to-date set of software tools that all work together. They have to regularly compile updates to the hundreds or thousands of software packages, and test each one to make sure changes to some of the underlying library code has not cause the application to break. Then they have to distribute these packages to the users of the distro, nowadays over the Internet, but many distros used to do CDs or DVDs as well.

So really, you should choose a Linux distribution based on whether they have the software you need, and based on how often they upgrade their software packages (are you getting the latest versions or do you have to wait years to get the latest and greatest), and also based on how much you trust the service provider, and based on how reliable their package delivery service is (i.e. how reliable is their website).

(See also: how to pick a Linux Distro)