Are there any operating system designed to be as distraction free as possible?
Without internet access, as few programs as possible and with a layout that is designed to be boring.
What work are you trying to do? Because “Without internet access, as few programs as possible and with a layout that is designed to be boring.”
Looks like conditions that could be met with a piece of paper - not being sarcastic - sometimes a computer is too much of a distraction and sketching out an idea or writing a first draft on paper is massivly beneficial to overall productivity.
Im interested in structuring information. So for example editing text, using spreadsheets or mindmapping.
Well then I’d go for a live iso like tailsOS with persistent storage option. That way you boot into it for “focus time” and don’t set it up the network connection.
not a bad idea. Kali, from what I recall, has a much prettier UI though. You can use a solid wallpaper, of course, or make your own wallpaper with things you need to remember listed. your apps will cover it up, but ctrl+alt+d will get you desktop. I have Debian with KDE, too, because it is easier than most others to add and delete sutff. KDE is very bloated, so you’ll need to delete a lot of stuff. I really love AntiX (Debian-bsed, but a bit harder since it has a separate repository) and it is so light that it still works well on a cheap 2.0 flahs drive. there are even lighter version (core, I think), but those take a lot more work to set up. Test out a few on flashdrives with persistence set up - before installing on a hard drive. The guy who mentioned terminal was right, though. More and more, I am finding terminal (for some things) better. I use a separate work space just for tmux and use mpv --no-video for music to drown out roommates, ranger in a few panes with micro editor customized, htop to close mpv when it misbehaves… There seem to be many autistic computerphiles, so you might also ask in their forums.
Check out FreeDOS. It ships a text editor. You can find more than one spreadsheet application on archive.org. I’m not sure about mind maps though. Also, internet works if you want it to but it’s totally optional.
You can configure NixOS to have as little or as much as you want by setting the right options. Arch allows customising to a similar level but that’s less… configuring and more installing things and tweaking stuff here and there.
10000 options whoa. Is there a howto you’d recommend for navigating those? Or maybe an example config if I want the experience limited to a text editor and an nfs mount.
The default configuration generated by
nixos-generate-configis a good starting point. From there you can probably find more things to disable or trim down.environment.systemPackagesandenvironment.defaultPackagesfor example are lists you can make very short.
Sounds kinda like TempleOS to me
The UI is far from boring in TempleOS lmao
i3 window manager in Linux is super minimalistic
I’ll go with Linux and just configure it properly. Depending on what you want you could even not have a DE/WM
WTF, spartanic features and UI, without internet, for this I turn off the PC and done. You can customize EVERY OS to be as distraccion free as you like, even Windows if you want.
I love FreeBSD with XFCE
for mobile: graphene OS, or completely vanilla android ( lineageOS )
I’ve been exploring vr for this exact purpose. Still have a lot of work to do on the best environment I found but it’s coming together.
Virtual reality?
Yep, one thing about a headset is that it monopolizes your vision and if you can build the virtual environment, you can choose what is and isn’t there. After getting bored with the apps and games on the Quest I decided to explore the most basic part of it, the home environments. In that environment it’s possible to open up multiple browsers so I opened one to a CryptoPad, connected a bluetooth keyboard and simply sat there noting problems with the environment and experience.
Since then, I found an app/framework called Lovr that enabled me to build the environment I want in Lua and to chip away at the issues I found. Forked a virtual development environment called indeck to suit my needs here https://github.com/weex/indeck/issues
The last OS that I used without an Internet connection was Slackware.
There’s https://www.mercuryos.com/
Mercury OS is a speculative vision designed to question the paradigms governing human-computer interaction today.
Very interesting, but is it still under development?
no, it’s purely a concept. there aren’t any plans i could find to actually build a functional os
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not open source thought
Oh, interesting. Adding this to my watch list.
To elaborate on the text editor and spreadsheet front from another thread, FreeDOS ships with a ton of editors. I don’t believe it comes with any spreadsheets, however. For a plain TUI desktop environment, PsychDOS offers a simple interface with mouse support, plus a host of useful applications (look at a screenshot of the desktop here; it absolutely is distraction-free). There might be mind map software for MS-DOS that will run on FreeDOS, but I don’t know of any.
editors:
- vim (or the vi-clone, elvis)
- emacs
- pico
- edit
- … and many more!
spreadsheets:
- sc (comes with PsychDOS)
- as-easy-as (look on https://archive.org/)
- visicalc (obtain it here: http://danbricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm)
- … others too, like the Lotus 1-2-3 suite
wouldn’t using tty with tmux and a few other apps within it be less visually jolting? I love color and design, but must admit my terminal calms me a bit.
Well, FreeDOS is text based, so it should offer an experience similar to any other terminal. The 16-bit colors certainly aren’t as nice though, so I see your point.
Terminal
/snark
Even xterm is too distracting with
mpv --vo=tct --really-quiet "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ":PAnd of course it’s Rick Astley lol. Jokes on you, I know the video ID already.
Haha, should have gone with:
mpv --vo=tct --really-quiet $(echo aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g/dj1kUXc0dzlXZ1hjUQ== | base64 -d -)
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Using KDE Activities (available on any Linux OS), you can create a setup like this
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