Submitted 1 year ago by libre_warrior@lemmy.ml to opensource@lemmy.ml
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.
WTF, spartanic features and UI, without internet, for this I turn off the PC and done.
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
I'll go with Linux and just configure it properly. Depending on what you want you could even not have a DE/WM
I love linux with XFCE
for mobile: graphene OS, or completely vanilla android ( lineageOS )
Terminal
/snark
Even xterm is too distracting with mpv --vo=tct --really-quiet "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ" :P
I raise you this: https://ayushgupta.tech/blog/play-gif-in-terminal/
The last OS that I used without an Internet connection was Slackware.
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
FreeBSD
9front
More distraction free shell than OS itself.
Using KDE Activities (available on any Linux OS), you can create a setup like this
sudoreboot@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
You can configure NixOS to have as little or as much as you want by setting the right options. Guix is much the same.
Arch also allows customising to a similar level but that's less.. configuring and more installing things and tweaking stuff here and there.
weex@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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.
sudoreboot@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
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.