the feather examples is pretty involved, its easier to just make a new example for computer/linux logging

Author: ladyada

examples/computer_datalogging.py

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+# Simple GPS datalogging demonstration for use with a computer like Linux/desktop.
+# This actually doesn't even use the GPS library and instead just reads raw
+# NMEA sentences from the GPS unit and dumps them to a file.
+
+import board
+import busio
+import serial  # pyserial is required
+
+# Path to the file to log GPS data.  By default this will be appended to
+# which means new lines are added at the end and all old data is kept.
+# Change this path to point at the filename desired
+LOG_FILE = 'gps.txt'  # Example for writing to local file gps.txt
+
+# File more for opening the log file.  Mode 'ab' means append or add new lines
+# to the end of the file rather than erasing it and starting over.  If you'd
+# like to erase the file and start clean each time use the value 'wb' instead.
+LOG_MODE = 'ab'
+
+# Create a serial connection for the GPS connection using default speed and
+# a slightly higher timeout (GPS modules typically update once a second).
+# Update the serial port name to match the serial connection for the GPS!
+uart = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB0", baudrate=9600, timeout=3000)
+
+# Main loop just reads data from the GPS module and writes it back out to
+# the output file while also printing to serial output.
+with open(LOG_FILE, LOG_MODE) as outfile:
+    while True:
+        sentence = uart.readline()
+        print(str(sentence, 'ascii').strip())
+        outfile.write(sentence)
+        outfile.flush()