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There's a lot to tell about how things were and how they digressed. Beside the physical aspect or ergonomics, there was something calming of a very small core s
by agumonkey 4y ago
There's a lot to tell about how things were and how they digressed. Beside the physical aspect or ergonomics, there was something calming of a very small core software. Powering an old machine throwing you into a BASIC shell in one second is relaxing. Modern day suffers from the paradox of choice, too many things to digest, too many variants, too much stuff you never gets to understand.
There were also more 'mystical' aspects to old machines, they were slow but fit your brain more, you can't swallow the whole internet .. you need time, those machines being limited, gave you time to think, they also had their own peculiar mechanics, and it made for a nice ritual (told that before but the pleasure of hearing a tape drive ramping up, a LP deck spinning.. it all feeds your brain with a soothing feeling)
- Aperocky 4y agoJust go into terminal. I've settled with zsh after forever with bash, but nothing really changed. It works in all systems, mac, linux, even Windows (with WSL). The same script that I configure it can be used anywhere so I put it on git and just pull that whenever I need to configure a new system for temp/permanent use: https://github.com/Aperocky/unix-setup https://github.com/Aperocky/unix-setup
- amelius 4y agoTry developing for Android. You will have to install a load of tools before you can even type hello world. Even if you only use a terminal.
- anthk 4y agoShell != terminal. The terminal it's where your interactive shell (or terminal software) is being launched from. For instance, xterm -e top spawns no shell under top by default.