These last months I've noticed that the single greatest obstacle to my writing activities is the internet. At the same time, writing in the computer is the very best thing, because it's so easy to detect and correct mistakes, and the fingers don't get so tired.
Is there any operating system that doesn't recognize modern wifi or is just internet-free by default?
I would be very much interested in installing it, even if it cost me some money.
By the way, I need Internet on my current systems (Windows 7 and Ubuntu) for university work, so disabling the Internet from them is not an option.
What I need is a new OS which will not have Internet access. My Windows and Ubuntu are so slow to load that I won't even feel the desire of changing OS's while writing.
Henry Mitchell
Debian net iso does not come with any wifi driver, if you dont install any you’re good to go
Levi King
In order to install it I would need the Internet, is that not so? But if I didn't have any Wifi in the first place, I naturally wouldn't be able to go to the Internet and install it, which means I wouldn't have any Internet after all...
Sounds like a good option.
Leo Hall
Just close your browser and/or disconnect from the internet.
Sorry, I meant 'go back', in the sense of 'going back to it'.
(Or is 'come back' alright too? English is not my first language.)
Samuel Reed
You will learn programming and connect your OS to the internet
Oliver Diaz
TempleOS
Eli Rivera
Not really, since it takes some work and would give me time enough to think 'This is not good' and stop doing it.
My problem is that connecting to the Internet is just so easy. All I have to do is open a browser, and then a whole day's work will be lost.
James Cruz
>TempleOS deliberately has no network support. It runs 8-bit ASCII with graphics in source code and has a 2D and 3D graphics library, which run at 640x480 VGA with 16 colors.[2] Like most modern operating systems, it has keyboard and mouse support. It supports the FAT32 and RedSea file systems (the latter created by Davis) with support for file compression.[5]
Sounds like it's exactly what I need.
Does it have any decent programs for writing? Will I be able to convert the files into .doc or some other commonly used format later?
Nolan Cook
you can transfer the files on a usb stick and then convert them on another machine
George R. R. Martin writes his books on a machine running DOS iirc
Jace Campbell
His DOS machine broke, so now he's using a modern machine with WordStar emulated in DOSBox.
I really like DOS word processors. Their colour schemes and UI really minimise eye strain because they're all either grey on black, or grey on dark blue, which are legible and clear even with the brightness turned way down, and don't strain with the brightness up.
Grayson Murphy
You can compile the Linux kernel to have no network support, so any Linux OS will do what you want.
Angel Ross
Templeos is for you
Gabriel Davis
^^^^^^this
Michael Walker
Literally just turn off the network adapter in the OS or your modem
Nolan Torres
9front will be perfect here. It does have Internet, but it does not have a functional web browser.
Cameron Turner
>9front and templeos for some reason when these are mentioned in the same thread without a hint of irony i can't stop laughing
Netinstall is done with an ethernet cable. The GUI will give you the option of installing wifi drivers.
William Reed
TempleOS
Joseph Bailey
For overkill, install Gentoo and configure your kernel so it doesn't support wi-fi.
Grayson Richardson
an fsf certified distro like parabola probably doesn't have drivers for your wireless card
Landon Nelson
this tbhfam
Matthew Butler
any minimal linux distribution without Xorg. Write latex in vim.
Landon Price
you could simply remove the network drivers from your current OS, or lock the network interfaces somehow. you could build a dedicated machine with this purpose. actually, it's a very interesting question for me... I have a similar problem, can't do shit while connected.
Luke Morgan
oh, and btw, most wifi laptop have this "rf-kill" thing where you can lock the wifi device by hardware... though you'd be really tempted to enable it again.
Christopher Perry
well, how do keep your own discipline? I, as the OP, have problems with that. if I don't have someone else giving me orders, I waste tons of time.
also this, jej. if you have the "wrong" hardware, you won't have network drivers.
Brayden Hughes
1) Get any Linux distro. 2) Create a user account you'll use exclusively for writing. Set up a spartan, distraction-free work environment for him. 3) As root, block all outgoing network traffic for that user's programs: iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner -j DROP
Alternatively, if you don't trust yourself not to switch users when you're supposed to write:
1) Get any Linux distro. 2) Create a user and set up a work environment for him. 3) Change root password to a randomly generated one, write it down. 4) As root, set up the firewall to fucking drop everything. 5) Log out from the root account, bury the written down root password in the woods.
Leo Jones
>Write latex in vim. Latex is for typesetting, not writing. OP means something where you're focused on getting the actual words down, rather than mess around with visuals.
Samuel Wood
FreeDOS, George R. R. Martin approves.
Jordan Harris
DOS is unironically a great environment for productivity as a writer.
