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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.

• goatinaboat 6y ago
  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.
  • harpratap 6y ago
    Flexibility vs complexity is a slippery slope.
  • cycomanic 6y ago
    If you want that today get a BBC microbit, switch on and you're directly in a python environment
• yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  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".
  • cosmojg 6y ago
    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.
  • smcameron 6y ago
    How about Processing. https://processing.org/ https://processing.org/