Afaik it’s not “Android things”. Apple devices also use location to use some BT functions if I correctly recall.

Try pop_os. It’s gnome tiling can be enabled and disabled from the top bar and it’s defaults are sane and easy to change.

https://github.com/tasks/tasks

Open source Available on F Droid. Supports sync through various services.

May be what you looking for or not. :)

Maybe give Pop_OS a try. It’s Debian/Ubuntu based and works well. It’s tiling extension makes gnome usable for me (and it’s optional/off by default).

Nvidia is a breeze (included with the image iirc).

Agree. At first I didn’t like it too much but overall you get used to it moderately fast. There are instances where it fails you and the wrong gesture is triggered, but it’s worth getting rid of the old nav bar.

Give it a try and be patient. :)

An alternative is to switch to gesture based navigation as it would remove the whole navigation bar.

Or https://arcolinux.com/ to learn how things work.

Buy an FP3 or 4 if you don’t need these features.

Also check https://github.com/junegunn/fzf and https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

Two great utilities that will reduce the number of file jumping and searching you need to do. :)

More useful tools: https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/