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A few things about this stand out:

- Calligra with two 'l's is the name of a KDE office suite.

- Why does the keyboard have macOS keys? At least as a Linux user, I've felt like most Linux desktops reflect the Windows keyboard layout more.

- Can I have pictures of the internals of the machine, or is this a 3D rendering?

- The Workbench OS makes a lot of claims that I want more information about. Is this a rice on a common WM or something they made themselves? Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"? Won't having homebrew and DNF lead to conflicts (this is more of a general question, since I genuinely don't know)?

Nonetheless, I have to say that it does look cool from a design perspective, and with the pace of DRAM prices, maybe the actual system price won't actually be that crazy in a few months.

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ErroneousBosh|3 months ago

> Why is it "suitable for sovereign and secure deployments"?

It doesn't have device "drivers", it has device travellers.

When you go to shut it down it pops up an annoying dialogue box saying that its "First Amendment Rights Are Being Violated" that won't go away, even though it's made in Shoreditch which is nowhere near the US and therefore the US constitution is about as relevant as Kenya's.

alsetmusic|3 months ago

I think this will fly right past a number of people, but I appreciated it. As soon as I saw the word "sovereign" in the quote, my mind was already making the association with the nonsense people. My GPU's device traveller is a real pita, sometimes.

sho_hn|3 months ago

To be honest, every time I see something this paper-thin yet slick and polished, I just assume it's mostly AI slop. The barrier to launching vaporware has never been lower.

Content over presentation is a signal for quality more than ever.

worthless-trash|3 months ago

IIRC there was a live stream where the creator went over the prototype.

noobermin|3 months ago

So this probably should be the top comment, but I'll reply to add to my nitpicks. Calling it workbench OS does confuse a bit from the amiga workbench, although I doubt these people are aware of that.

xp84|3 months ago

“Confuse a bit”

I highly doubt anyone is “dailying” an Amiga today for any actual work (other than retro fun), so I suspect there won’t be even a single person who expects this to be compatible with Amiga.

Likewise anyone looking for like a FPGA new Amiga hardware knows anything that says it’s got a Ryzen is not the droid they’re looking for.