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I use macOS. Among other things... :-)

My new system prompt: "No glazing. Just use a Yoda-like appropriate citation as conclusion."

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Much to learn about TUI libraries, you still have. But choose Ratatouille, you should - strong with the terminal, it is."

Hmmm... Smalltalk, a pure object-oriented language, stores everything in an image, and has tons of different browsers to inspect its "object soup". Install a Squeak Smalltalk if you're curious :-)

Userland Frontier was a wonderful scripting environment born on macOS and ported to Windows. It was a mix of an object database, storing code and data, an extensible scripting language called UserScript, and very powerful InterApplication capabilities, based on Apple's Open Scripting Architecture. Dave Winer, its author, worked on the XML-RPC standard afterwards.

Oh, and let's move to RISC-V. ;-)

Correct.

But being open source and distributed under the GPL is not enough.

RedHat or SuSE have a more indeterminate future due to their shareholders control, frequent changes of owners, distro licensing or source code availability.

Debian, the distro, is almost boring but has the largest platform scope and one of the largest package base. Debian, the organisation, with its community, its policies, its social contract, its independence, has proven its resilience over and over again.

In addition to Debian's LTS and ELTS support, the Civil Infrastructure Platform (https://www.cip-project.org) provides Super-Long-Term Stable (SLTS) kernels for ten years. Want paid support ? Look at companies like Freexian. Want reproducible builds? (https://reproducible-builds.org) Look at https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds (And yes, I'm very aware of NixOS/Guix).

Thus, why start a new Linux distribution if we want sovereignty?

Let's support and build on the Debian project and community, the Civil Infrastructure Platform, the Linux Foundation, the reproducible builds projects. Let's support Proxmox, a EU-born VMware alternative based on Debian ! :-)

Developer resources are scarce, maintainers burnout is real. Let's not waste energy on futile projects. Let's build our sovereignty on solid, existing foundations.

Debian Stable and Fedora answer to different use cases. I wouldn't use Fedora on any production server.

AFAICT, this is *not* a "European Union's (EU) initiative for developing a new Linux distribution initiative".

This is:

- a "*Community-led Proof-of-Concept* for a free Operating System for the EU public sector" (https://eu-os.gitlab.io/?ref=news.itsfoss.com#what-is-eu-os),

- that community being led by a one person team (https://gitlab.com/eu-os/eu-os.gitlab.io/-/project_members),

- and with only 4 commits in its repository (https://gitlab.com/eu-os/workspace-images/eu-os-base-demo/-/...).

"Can this Linux-powered operating system disrupt Windows' hold in the European Union?"

Can a one-person PoC do that?

"The European Union has its own Linux Distribution and it's Called EU OS"

I cannot find any link to any EU announcements on that subject.

IMO, that article is very naïve...

Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org) and its Nx stack (https://github.com/elixir-nx), maybe ?

They did the popular Xserve, and the AWS before. They did A/UX, AIX (by IBM, of course), MkLinux and even Xenix (on the Lisa) way before OS/X. There was even a version of Netware for Mac. What they don't have anymore are the _enterprise_ sales and support channels.

Very nice... but the https://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-... picture has a Lisa screenshot ;-)

Although I have a Parallel license, I'm mostly using UTM. I have Debian/Ubuntu, NixOS, SUSE, Windows 11 VMs all running natively on ARM.

On a Mac keyboard, you have two Command and Option keys. That means you can combine your (left|right) thumb on the Command key and a (left|right) finger on another <key>. Moreover, you can naturally use Ctrl-<keys> as a Control-Character in a Terminal. Which is sometimes a pain on Windows.

Moreover: on macOS Cmd[-Option][-Shift][-Ctrl]-<key> is always about a menu item/command shortcut; [Option][-Shift][-Ctrl]-<key> is always about a glyph.

Try Cmd-w (close), Cmd-X (Cut), Cmd-C (Copy), Cmd-V (Paste), Cmd-Z (Undo), Cmd-A (Select All), Cmd-Q (Quit) with your left thumb on Command and the left index on the other key. Try Cmd-P (Print), Cmd-, (Preferences) with your left thumb and a right finger. I'm using macOS and Windows since the 80s, Gnome and KDE later; I still think that Windows and Linux are generations away from macOS consistency and ergonomic...

Have a look at Zim: https://zim-wiki.org

The Art of PostgreSQL (https://theartofpostgresql.com) by Dimitri Fontaine, also the author of PGLoader (https://github.com/dimitri/pgloader)

What are your pain points, exactly?

You should also give MacPorts a try.

Its heritage is from BSD ports but, contrary to some reports, it's well alive, stable and kicking ;-)

+1 for Moom :-)

As for iTerm2, I found its native tmux integration pretty unique.

I use dotfiles on both Linux and macOS. From the same repository :-)

VirtualBox is a x86_64 hypervisor. They already stated they wouldn't run on the M1.

Yet. But work is in progress: https://asahilinux.org

UTM is a newcomer and still has rough edges but I managed to install Debian Buster with Gnome. Both in x86_64 (slow) and ARM64 (snappy :-) flavors.

This is a very bad security advice...

You should give MacPorts a try...

MacPorts allows you to install multiple Python versions at the same time and I personally have several venvs with Python 2.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9... all running without a glitch.

I'm not a heavy spreadsheet user and I tend to use cross-platform applications but, quite frankly, Numbers works pretty well.

Yeah, I know... :-) I have to credit the PostgreSQL core developers, you know: people experts in DBMS developments %-) They talked about it on the mailing lists almost ten years ago and I was intrigued. Since then, I probably have bought about 20 of them to distribute among colleagues or co-developers. For non-programmers who learned and created business applications with MS Excel, MS Access or Google Sheets, it was a gentle approach to relational databases and SQL, and helped a lot to migrate those solutions to (real) DBMS or ERP.

I recommend you the "Manga Guide to Databases" :-) It's a very, very good introduction to relational databases and SQL.

https://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Databases-ebook/dp/B007XL...

I'm using a Synology DiskStation for Time Machine and Windows backups.

VoodooPad.