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Ok! Initial build script for writerdeckOS v2.0 is done.
I even coded a menu to allow for easy change of default word processor / text editor.
The Terminal Edition defaults to using wordgrinder, but the follow word processors and text editors are loaded into the system and its easy to swap over to them:
- WordGrinder
- Tilde
- Word Perfect
- Joe
- Emacs
- Vi / Vim
- Nano
- MicroAnd it's easy to install and run a custom app (text editor or otherwise!).
Also, I added nmtui - a Terminal User Interface for Network Manager to connect to the internet if needed (eg to install a new app or to configure synced cloud folders).
I need to run a couple more QA tests for this and then I'll start putting together the installation media. After testing that on a couple of laptops, I'll push it out officially!
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Working on the next version of writerdeckOS (finally!) which replaces the default word processor of Tilde with Wordgrinder.
That said, in case someone wants to use a different word processor, I'm prepackaging it with several command line word processors and text editors such as tilde, wordgrinder, vi, vim, nano, emacs, joe, and....
Word Perfect!!!
Hahaha! Tavis Ormandy released a ported version of Word Perfect for Linux a handful of years ago.
So here's me running Word Perfect in Linux!
Word Perfect for Linux: https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/
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Robin has written a review of #WriterDeckOS, which is designed to turn an old laptop or chromebook into a distraction-free writing machine.
https://phillipsuk.org/robin/posts/2026/2026-02-03-writerdeckos/ -
Robin tried WriterDeckOS and wrote a review on their blog.
... if you’re looking for a writer deck, an old laptop running WriterDeckOS is a good choice.
https://phillipsuk.org/robin/posts/2026/2026-02-03-writerdeckos/
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I guess you've arrived in the Linux Distro world when someone posts a heckling thread about your distro in Hacker News.
Jeese, ya'll, if you don't like it, don't use it.
Over here minding my own business and sharing with five other people who enjoy it 😂 😭
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Ok. About to dive in and work on a heavy chunk of the next update for #writerdeckOS .
Wish me luck!
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🎩✨ Presenting the marvel of the millennium: WriterdeckOS! Transform your laptop into a glorified typewriter, because who needs the internet or apps in 2023, right? 🚀💼 Just what every writer dreams of—a $1000 distraction-free zone, with the added thrill of figuring out how to download an ISO from the Internet Archive! 📚🔍
https://writerdeckos.com #WriterdeckOS #GlorifiedTypewriter #DistractionFreeZone #CreativeWriting #TechTrends #HackerNews #ngated -
Someone installed writerdeckOS onto a 32bit Sony Vaio P netbook!!!
Yay putting new life into old tech!
https://www.reddit.com/r/writerDeck/comments/1ojhua8/sony_vaio_p_writerdeck/
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does anybody know of something like https://writerdeckos.com but for ARM thingies?
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Okay! Figured out automounted USBs for global settings now. I've got it creating a Folder in the user's home directory for USBs as well.
Putting a "udiskie" backgrounded run command in the global /etc/profile:
/usr/bin/udiskie -N -F --no-notify-command >/dev/null 2>&1 &
And then right below it, I'll do a (if symlink does not exist, then create it) and have it specific to whichever user is logging on.
if [ ! -L /home/$USER/USBs ]; then ln -s /media/$USER/ /home/$USER/USBs; fi
This works for any given user that logs on. If you try and change users with the "su" command, it doesn't work (not sure how to get the global profile to load when you change users... but its not important).
This is a single user system and the only reason to have the $USER check is because the user sets their own username at installation. This will work for that usecase wonderfully, I believe.
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@julie_mills Hilarious. Quite amazing. Thank you for pointing out #WriterDeckOS
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I'm working on the next version of writerdeckOS and want to have two default directories in the home folders for any users created:
- Documents
- USBs (which will be linked to plugged in USBs)I'm moving out of user space and into global space. So with that, I'm trying to determine where the "default populated folders" are configured (note: I'm using a headless version of Debian as my base OS).
Turns out SOOOOO much is controlled by the desktop environment!!! Like much of your default folders are specifically configured within Gnome, or XFCE, or KDE, etc.
But I'm not using a desktop environment. I'm using Bash as a Command Line Interface with Tmux as a multiplexor.
So I sorted out where Bash sets out its default folder schema and default user profiles, etc in Debian headless.
It's in /etc/skel !!!! Cool!!!!
So I created a unique directory in /etc/skel in my base build installation. Then used Penguins Eggs to build me an installation ISO...
...and sure enough!!! The default folder is in both my Live instance and in my installed instance!!!!
Yay!!!!
Next I'll see if I can get that "USBs" folder to sync with a global mount point... that's gonna be goofy...
