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by snazz 2737 days ago
They are also a bad joke against those of us who have underpowered or older machines. I love my 2006 MacBook (with OpenBSD) and I sure won't be running Electron on there even if it supported the OS. Emacs is wonderfully fast.
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Also, I am an nvi/ed user, and I'd recommend yasr(1) for the blind, but, man, disabled people having a highly integrated textual env with sound icons, I can't just do nothing but to applaud them for the efforts.
It's hilarious that "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" is considered light and fast by today's standards.
My machine is from 2008 (partially) and doing fine.