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>>LorenD+(OP)
What are boot times like?

I see a lot of text-editing environments geared towards "distraction-free, focused editing" but not a lot of innovation on an OS focused on the same experience. I would like to see such a "writing OS" that boots to a text editor in less than a second. Maybe this OS is a candidate?

>>velcro+Lc
You don't need a new OS for that. You can do that as a Linux distribution just fine.

>>eru+FD
Maybe with heavy hacking, but not ready-made, at least that I’ve found. Certainly don’t seem to be any distros (in the casual searching I do periodically) that focus on 1-second boot times out of the box.

>>velcro+zl3
You might like https://www.benjamin-schieder.de/nethacklinux.html

Replace nethack with your favourite editor, and it might just work. (Well, also replace the floppy disk with something faster.)