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.
Submitted 2 years 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.
The last OS that I used without an Internet connection was Slackware.
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.
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-config
is a good starting point. From there you can probably find more things to disable or trim down. environment.systemPackages
and environment.defaultPackages
for example are lists you can make very short.
I'll go with Linux and just configure it properly. Depending on what you want you could even not have a DE/WM
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.
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/
9front
More distraction free shell than OS itself.
FreeBSD
you can easily configure a Linux system to be like this
maxmalrichtig@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
Not an OS and maybe not 'boring' to use, but checkout the tools from https://suckless.org/