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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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MacOS Preview equivalent (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Title mostly says it all. Preview is unironically an incredible piece of software. Between feature set and ease of use, I have yet to come across any FOSS that is comparable. Anyone know of a Linux alternative?

EDIT: Due to popular demand I should explain Preview more. It’s a “fully fledged” PDF editor, but somehow it’s completely different from something like Adobe Acrobat. The way most users will interact with it is as a seemingly very plain image viewer, but if you open a PDF you can add fillable boxes, rearrange pages, split and merge PDFs, etc. I cannot place exactly why it’s workflows feel so much better than something like Acrobat.

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Dolphin has the information panel which is activated by pressing F11. I don't know what more mac preview does.

[–] Arkhive@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It’s odd because I feel like it gets mixed up, very fairly due to its name, with MacOS “QuickLook”, which is the actual file previewing tool, giving a quick peek into a file by hitting ‘space’ with the file selected. Preview is essentially an image editor, but it doubles, or maybe triples, as PDF viewer/editor and scanner importer. The names are kinda silly tbh.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Ah, so not the information panel then. I don't know of a single application that does image editing, pdf viewing, and scanning. There are applications for all three individually.