Thirded. As a writer, I'm currently using Aeon Timeline (https://timeline.app/) to track fictional timelines. It does a nice job of handling and displaying the data but it's fairly complex and not Markdown. An Obsidian plugin would be super useful in getting my workflow 100% Markdown.
Universal Blue (https://universal-blue.org/) takes the OCI-based Silverblue and extends it even further, including bluefin (https://universal-blue.org/images/bluefin/) which aims to provide an Ubuntu-like desktop experience for those of us who've given up on Ubuntu/Canonical.
As for Linux support, it's already there. There are papercuts, like needing a fairly recent kernel and certain packages (for the fingerprint reader), but it works fine, by all accounts.
I'm expecting my DIY edition to ship in the next week or so, and I'll be running Linux on it full-time.
Sure, i'm just disappointed they would force this on everyone. First, because it means they vet the practice while we should strongly discourage it (if not for ethical, at least for security reasons). Second, because Framework laptop sounds good otherwise, but i really don't want to financially support corporations who buy into this biometrics hellscape.
We'll be doing that through the learning app. Not only are we going to put together project-specific course content that will teach soldering, coding and how to work with the components in a structured way but we'll be opening up the platform so that makers can create their own kits and courses. We're focused on the learning aspect - useful, structured course content so you don't have to spend hours online on multiple sources. With some semblance of progression built in so you can move onto more ambitious projects or learn a new skill in the field - think TeamTreehouse or CodeSchool but for Hardware.
I attended one of those workshops back in 2010. Their not understating the competitiveness of getting in to one, especially if you have a commercially-successful writer as one of that year's instructors. You can end up with several hundred applications, and a class size of 17-18.
;) I wouldn't usually point it out, but since we're discussing writing workshops...
Clarion always sounded fantastic. I wonder how much of it is simply that it gives you the opportunity to live-and-breathe something, day-in, day-out, for six weeks. Regardless of what you're trying to do, if you manage to do it solidly for six weeks, you'll become good (or at least markedly better) at it. For most of us, even if we had that time, I imagine the biggest hurdle would be motivation and becoming discouraged if we tried it on our own. So I wonder how much of the success of these programmes is perhaps not the expert advice per se but more the creation of a healthy space where people are able to throw themselves into their work like that. (Is this not fairly similar to Y Combinator's model?)
You're half right -- the immersion is important, and it's critical to have other people on the same quest. Many of us go from being okay to hyper-productive in that environment. The hard thing is translating that to the real world. It's like having scurvy, then getting enough vitamin C for a while, then going back to having scurvy. You realize what a huge, huge thing it is to have all the infrastructure in place. Through skill or accident, some people are better at putting themselves in the right circumstances to thrive.
It shouldn't be underestimated, though, how important the instructors are. It felt like I imagine an old-timey apprenticeship might have felt, where a respected craftsman of watches shows you things about watchmaking that it would take decades to learn on your own.
