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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:56PM (#23274216)
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".

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by cosmojg on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:07PM (#23275093)
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
Bam! You're booting straight into a full Python environment when you turn on your computer. This is similarly achievable with other languages as well, including BASIC.
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by smcameron on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:13PM (#23275153)
How about Processing. https://processing.org/
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