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Act like a fucking adult and exercise some self control.

>>935281 (OP)

You could just uninstall everything and delete all files that are unrelated to your writing or whatever.

>>935281 (OP)

In my experience, it's preferable to just use a distro that doesn't ship with a desktop (Arch, Gentoo).

In the former, you can just type "systemctl --user enable vim" to get what you want if you really, really need it

>>935303

Are you mentally deficient?

>>935282

Some people seriously lack self control. Seems like some people are just born without it, at that point you just have to work around it.

>>935303

>gui without a gui

Are you high?

>>935281 (OP)

disconnect from the internet

>>935310

Good idea. He could take it further and remove basic networking tools from his system if necessary.

>>935311

His first course of action should be to dump unicode.

>>935313

There is nothing wrong with Unicode. There are several things wrong with UTF-8 and ASCII, though.

>>935324

Something along the lines of 8-bit ascii with less control characters and support for some other european letters would be optimal.

>>935313

>>935327

You are an absolute fucking a-grade thick as shit brainlet if you have a problem with Unicode. "Unicode" isn't even really a thing. You're just bandwagoning on the newest stupid /tech/ meme, jerking off to Terry Davis quotes and not writing a line of code for lack of ability.

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history

>>935281 (OP)

>install gentoo or arch

>don't bother installing X or Wayland

>install your favorite cli text editor

>edit your .bashrc to automatically start your favorite text editor on login

>write your book with some basic html tags and save as a .html

>sftp it to a computer with a gui

>use calibre to convert to .epub

>done

Let's face it, if you had a standard window manager set up with libreoffice as a start up program, you'd just close out of it and open up firefox. The only real option is to have a machine with literally nothing fun or pretty installed on it in the first place.

sudo apt remove * -y && sudo apt install gedit -y

>>935287

>systemctl

<recommending systemd

no

>>935303

Or just hold down Ctrl-Alt-F1 and return to the text console.

>>935345

Op here

This is looking like the most common sense option.

Too bad there isn't a distro out (yet) that does specifically what you described, but there may be if I look on some more writer forums.

Phoneposting right now, so I'll have to get back.

Picking up a Dell Optiplex 790 today for $100.00, will take out the windows HDD, put in an SSD, then install...one or the other.

see a counsellor - PEBCAK

>>935451

I only suggested it because it's what I want to do myself. Apparently there's also a cli text editor called Word Grinder if you want to try that instead of a text editor.

>>935470

>cli text editor

*cli word processor

>>935281 (OP)

>but it's difficult to make changes once it is typed out onto paper.

That's why you do multiple revisions.

>>935312

>remove basic networking tools

i accidentally did this once and i could not get them back because i had no internet

>>935607

>>935342

so am i cool for using atom editor with UTF-8

>>935345

>edit your .bashrc to automatically start your favorite text editor on login

that won't start it on login, it will start every time you run bash

you could use emacs as a windowmanager. no, this is not a joke.

>>935392

We had those at my workplace until last year. Pretty neat.

>>935394

This. Then you just open nano or pico and start typing.

>>935342

Lmao why the fuck would i want my character encoding to support chinkspeak.

I'm not entirely sure since my experience with OS is limited outside Windows.

But I believe the customization offered by Linux may be able to provide you the means to build something like that.

I guess you should start with a minimalist distro and then configure it to automatically launch a Word processing software.

I can't really tell you how to do this, sorry.

This may sound abstract, but I'm convinced that a such thing is possible. Check the Archlinux wiki and related sources.

If you are on Windows, I guess you could use Powershell or some script to do the same thing, but I'm not sure what to do about the GUI then. I think the Windows GUI is kind of "Modifiable" but I'm not sure to what extent or how it is done.

But if distractions are really a problem for you, then unistall all the programs you don't need, just keep a Word Processing software, and turn off your internet connection, I guess.

Hope this will help anon.

Word processors are the actual distraction.

Write everything from console text editor in LaTeX.

just boot straight into emacs

>>936100

This is an interesting guide, and I think it's about as close as anything will get to what OP wants.

But I've never understood people who think things like this will solve their self-control issues. If you can't stop shitposting and get to work on a regular computer, what will keep you from closing the lid on your "Ubuntu typewriter laptop" and firing up your other computer for dem (you)s?

I could see getting dropped off at a remote cabin with one of these >>935392 being effective, though, if the only alternative to writing were staring at the cabin walls or counting trees.

Be like the Game of Throne guy, set up a DOS machine and find a DOS text editor or word processor you like.

Just edit your i3 to start vim on boot or something, it's that easy.

>>935281 (OP)

Make yourself a slackware installation that only has the barebones + LaTeX + vim.

>>935451

I'd say pick something that's never going to break (Debian, Slackware, something like that), and either use wordgrinder (tui word processor), or go for a LaTeX setup. Use LaTeX plus vim/emacs/nano or whatever plus a tiling window manager of your choice (so you can easily have the windows open you need without having to alt-tab all the time), and then actually probably evince as the pdf viewer because it'll automatically show changes when you recompile without having to close and open the program. After you have your programs, disconnect from the internet and go to town.

>>936325

Better to write in markdown/rst and then convert to LaTeX/ODT/whatever later.

>>936111

The best solution.

rm /sbin/init
ln -s /usr/bin/emacs /sbin/init

>>935609

If you don't install X then you will run bash immediately upon login, numbnuts.

>>935281 (OP)

I don't mean to ruin this perfectly good shitshow with a correct answer, but if you install whatever minimal linux install you want, and then install libreoffice and xorg, you can run startx with the argument of the full path to libreoffice writer and it will open just libreoffice in full screen with no underlying window manager.

>>935281 (OP)

Get a monochrome Apple computer (I'm taking SE/30 or older) and put a word processor on it. No distractions - the software won't support anything, and the hardware couldn't run it if it did.

Plus System 6 is comfy af.

Use a bare X setup, and in your .config/autostart, put libreoffice.desktop or an equivalent file.

>>937392

>10 minutes for every time you boot

>can't have color text

>>936149

>>936453

>vim

>emacs

>word processing

Take the WYSIWYG pill.

>>937394

SE/30s booted in like 3-4 seconds.

They did have MacTCP, though.

Might as well just use a typewriter at that point.

https://hooktube.com/kR0K4zBsrpY

>>937440

Typewriters are only useful for writing novel drafts, or short notes. For that, you might as well use a pen and paper :^)

The moment you want to do something more advanced, a computer with a text processor becomes inevitable (proper text formatting was done by trained professionals up until the 80's).

>>939747

hi joe

>>935345

if you want to do this on a lower level, get a statically linked editor and replace init

>>936100

better to use emacs mini instead of emacs server, since for op's purposes it'll probably be about the same

>>935451

really? how about a pencil and paper?

>>940105

For my part, I have shitty handwriting. There's a reasonable chance that I won't be able to read what I wrote one month later. If I wanted to make my handwriting neat, I'd have to expend thought and effort on each letter, which would constantly interrupt my train of thought for writing. Also, you'd still have to transcribe the handwriting to text before you submit it to a publisher, and that would be a task I'd be even more easily distracted from than the writing itself.

>>940127

https://palmermethod.com/

Train yourself in efficient handwriting and use OCR.

I have Lubuntu booting up and then autostarting into FocusWriter

-turn computer on, then it goes straight into focuswriter