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Caligra Workbench
- visviva 1y agoThere are a couple interesting-sounding claims made here but there is basically no detail to be found, which strikes me as odd at best and suspicious at worst.
- gchadwick 1y agoYeah it's a bit odd. I can get a sense of what they might be doing and perhaps it's a compelling product but no where near enough info to go on, let alone reserve one for $99 and later buy at $1999.
- satertek 1y agoThe OS sounds like bluefin-dx, but I'm struggling to figure out who they're marketing to here. Seems like a small market that System76 already owns.
- garciansmith 1y agoI was confused by the command symbols, since most Linux distros use the ctrl/alt/super terms. But they have some hardware too with integrated keyboard (do any other desktop computers do that anymore?). The custom keyboard layout is both interesting and kinda awful (biggest escape key I've ever seen).
- fake-name 1y agoIt looks like they're trying to be "linux for apple ex-pats".
- ugh123 1y agoMan, thats a confusing setup for what this is, of which "Workbench" is a reduced desktop environment on some (custom?) linux distribution. All of which runs on the Caligra "developer terminal" (viewable on the home page https://caligra.com/ https://caligra.com/ ) which, from the single top-down photo they provide, looks like a slightly more modern Commodore 64.
- gjvc 1y agolooks like an AI design to me. no way the escape key needs to be that big.
- mechanicum 1y agoOn that page they have Cmd + Esc mapped as the shortcut for the global system menu (see “Teleport”), and it looks like the CEO is a NeoVim user[0]. I guess they anticipate users hitting escape a lot. Making it a large target doesn’t strike me as a worse use of the space than dividing function keys into blocks of 4, and more likely to be intentional than an artefact of generative AI. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353029036614316034/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7353029...
- type0 1y agoSeems to be unrelated with Calligra Suite https://calligra.org/ https://calligra.org/ They should change their name in order to not confuse anyone since it's targeted at existing Linux users
- unixhero 1y agoI wonder if anybody in the wirld is actually using Calligra Suite
- jmclnx 1y agoI do when I need to look at WP and spreadsheets people send to me. It comes with Slackware. It is fine for my purposes.
- type0 1y agoI do, wirldly enough
- unixhero 1y agoYou got me. Writing thumb touch on the phone with a another language set (I use 5 different lqnguages on the phone) is proned for mistakes :)
- pjmlp 1y agoApparently too many Apple influences on what is supposed to be a Linux distribution.
- LocalH 1y agoI got a chuckle out of that, since this also shares a name with the Amiga GUI