Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
by armatav on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:34PM
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How does that even make sense? It’s an OS, go grab a Desktop Environment and download nvim, VSCode or whatever.
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:56PM
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The original line that I was responding to was
> Teaching my daughter to program on a modern computer, we spend more time bootstrapping and in process, than we do in actual development.
Arch Linux does not help with this, unless you make it boot into a VIC-20 emulator or something. Arch can help with boot speed, but once you're booted you're back in a full modern OS. So fine, install VSCode and Python... okay, now you get to figure out libraries. Manage terminals. Arrange a filesystem. This is not getting you closer to the VIC-20 or C64's "boot into BASIC".
This is very possible on Arch Linux, moreso than other distributions. After installing Arch, just run the following two commands:
sudo pacman -S xonsh
chsh --shell /usr/bin/xonsh
How about Processing. https://processing.org/
Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
by goatinaboat on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:43PM
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How does that even make sense?
Because that was the experience on those old machines. Switch it on, straight to BASIC prompt in a second or so. If you want to program it’s frictionless. And you can’t break it because BASIC is in ROM.
Flexibility vs complexity is a slippery slope.