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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 3 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kar1181 ◴[22 May 20 16:03 UTC] No.23273511[source]▶
I completely understand why things are going the way they are as our computing environment has become ever more hostile. But I am very nostalgic for the time where I would power up a Vic-20 and within seconds be able to get to work.

Teaching my daughter to program on a modern computer, we spend more time bootstrapping and in process, than we do in actual development.

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massysett ◴[22 May 20 16:12 UTC] No.23273634[source]▶
If that’s what you really want, grab a used ThinkPad and put Arch Linux on it. It will boot in a few seconds and is much more powerful than a Vic-20.
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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[22 May 20 16:22 UTC] No.23273745[source]▶
Still doesn't give you a programming environment, unless you want to do bash.
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armatav ◴[22 May 20 16:34 UTC] No.23273916[source]▶
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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1. goatinaboat ◴[22 May 20 16:43 UTC] No.23274025{3}[source]▶
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.

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2. harpratap ◴[22 May 20 16:59 UTC] No.23274269[source]▶
Flexibility vs complexity is a slippery slope.
3. cycomanic ◴[23 May 20 05:32 UTC] No.23280193[source]▶
If you want that today get a BBC microbit, switch on and you're directly in a python environment