<story><title>MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop</title><url>https://maxxinteractive.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peatmoss</author><text>I poked around on an old Indy at a vintage computer show a couple years back, and the main takeaway I had was, “holy crap the UI elements feel instantaneous.”&lt;p&gt;I know it’s been posted here many times about how computers have become perceptually slow, but that Indy after a couple minutes of poking around really drove the point home in a way that no numbers ever could.&lt;p&gt;Computers have gained a lot, for sure, but they’ve also lost a lot. I wonder if it’s even possible to make a modern computer fast in a way that feels fast again.</text></comment>
<story><title>MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of the IRIX Interactive Desktop</title><url>https://maxxinteractive.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Erlich_Bachman</author><text>Can someone please explain what are the main hypothetical advantages of this desktop environment? Even the article itself does a poor job of explaining this, it seems to assume that the reader already knows what IRIX&amp;#x2F;whatever is, and why did (do?) people use it over other environments?</text></comment>