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Re: WriterdeckOS

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Post by CTDOCodebases »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #17

The idea of a low-distraction laptop OS is a good one, but I'm not sure that this is necessarily the best approach. If I mentally model such a thing myself, I end up with something that looks a lot like Classic (pre-OS-X) Mac OS. It's simplified and has just enough presence to properly host graphical applications. No taskbar, no notifications (or associated drawer), no self-populated launcher menu. File manager is sp…

This is intended for people who want to use a laptop as a single use device for the purpose of writing. So basic file management and a word processor is all that is needed.

WriterdeckOS is not meant to be an OS for general computing.

Purppose built writerdecks are quite expensive. WriterdeckOS is a practical, inexpensive and resourceful alternative to a purpose build device.

For more information on writerdecks check out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/

Re: WriterdeckOS

#52

Post by CTDOCodebases »

amelius wrote: post #47

Why not just use a regular OS, install everything you need, then kill the internet connection?

This isn't really targeting Linux users.

It's targeting people who want to write without distraction who might have never used Linux before.

Re: WriterdeckOS

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Post by arkensaw »

A word of caution.

> WARNING: This will erase everything on the laptop you install it on. Please make backups before beginning.

I ran it a few months back without reading everything. I was trying a bunch of different linux distros via bootable USB drives, when I tried this one and it wiped the underlying drive.

Luckily enough it was just a test machine, I didn't lose anything crucial.

Re: WriterdeckOS

#58

Post by codazoda »

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #17

The idea of a low-distraction laptop OS is a good one, but I'm not sure that this is necessarily the best approach. If I mentally model such a thing myself, I end up with something that looks a lot like Classic (pre-OS-X) Mac OS. It's simplified and has just enough presence to properly host graphical applications. No taskbar, no notifications (or associated drawer), no self-populated launcher menu. File manager is sp…

Uxn from hundred rabbits comes to mind.

https://100r.ca

Re: WriterdeckOS

#59

Post by jchw »

catach wrote: post #20
jchw wrote: post #10

This is my first time hearing of the "WriterDeck" concept, so it's very possible that I am missing some context, but... While booting to text requires less work and less packages, it seems like it has a lot of caveats. Firstly, it will likely be unreadable on any laptop that has a high resolution screen, and frankly even some old cheap laptops have one at this point, at least 1.5x~ish-scale DPI. Secondly, obviously b…

> Battery state is probably the only thing that I really think it must show you. The screenshot provided does show a battery indicator in the top right of the UI (Usage section).

In my defense, I couldn't see that part of the screenshot because of the way the page crops it responsively.

Re: WriterdeckOS

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Post by [deleted] »

evolve2k wrote: post #11
dingnuts wrote: post #2

a single fucking screenshot would go a long way to convincing me this is real. considering I lost an hour yesterday trying to use an open source library that turned out to be vibe coded non-functional slop, I have to ask for evidence that the project is real and functional be presented front and center

Theres a screenshot here: https://writerdeckos.com/#usage My critique as a designer is that no typographic measure has been added (eg max-width), so it’s very hard to read. I’d suggest to them that they make a column in the middle for the text that is around 40 characters wide and Lee text flow in that. This is used by many text editions for their distraction free mode. It’d add more typographic ‘white space’ around…

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