@vkc It wasn't *so* friendly... the peripherals were horrendously slow. And 'computing' was really an euphemism for games playing.

@vkc and every single computer in the 80s was covered in rainbows. It's all been downhill since that trend ended.

@vkc I agree! :)

@vkc I don't know, I remember
?SYNTAX ERROR
READY.

on absolutely any input 😂 and then, after learning

LOAD"*",8

from god knows where you waited for three minutes to load a loading screen for further loading.

And even the most basic possible piece of software costing $20. Let's not idealize the past.

@vkc I somewhat miss the classic Macintosh system logo, where the computer smile to me each time I turn it on.

@vkc it’s kind of nostalgic, computers used to be made so they would serve us!

Now they look like a tool made to squeeze the last drop of information from us, if they have to “perform” some tasks for us to do it, that’s the price they pay…

@vkc This. Exactly this. We're no longer in control of many machines we own. Instead of solving genuine technical challenges, we have to work around anti-features – artificial problems that should not exist in the first place. Many systems today are outright user-hostile.

@vkc Friendly computing also revolves around Linux as well.
Windows and macOS aren't the only options THANK GOD!