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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 6 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 1.711s | source | bottom
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marcinzm ◴[22 May 20 15:52 UTC] No.23273386[source]▶
If Microsoft wasn't doing ever worse privacy things with Windows I'd seriously look into switching away from Mac OS given the ever growing issues it's been having with every release.
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lol768 ◴[22 May 20 15:55 UTC] No.23273414[source]▶
The set of possible operating systems to consider does not contain two items.
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1. nsxwolf ◴[22 May 20 16:03 UTC] No.23273514[source]▶
I find Linux to be a usability nightmare. Weird cut and paste behavior, difficult to resize windows, terrible trackpad support. macOS and Windows will have to get a lot worse before I switch.
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2. C1sc0cat ◴[22 May 20 16:24 UTC] No.23273774[source]▶
Why I prefer the three button UNIX style mouse style and I don't ever seem to recall having problems with windows resizing on UNICX an unixlike systems.
3. Accacin ◴[22 May 20 16:25 UTC] No.23273798[source]▶
I found at least in Gnome and KDE Plasma window management works pretty much just how Windows works. Cut and paste it just cut and paste - Do you mean how you can select text and use middle click on the mouse to paste without even needing to do anything but select?
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4. ◴[22 May 20 16:41 UTC] No.23273995[source]▶
5. tsukurimashou ◴[22 May 20 16:55 UTC] No.23274190[source]▶
how many DE did you try? you have a variety of choices now, I would recommend trying a popular one such as Ubuntu / Elementary OS / Linux Mint

You should get a very nice experience out of the box with these, which can be reproduced quite easily with less "bloated" distributions such as Arch or Gentoo if you prefer to install things yourself

6. rrdharan ◴[22 May 20 17:05 UTC] No.23274339[source]▶
There are two X clipboards. They are implemented differently (as in "ownership" model of the content) and the implementation bleeds out everywhere.

You can't remove or change this behavior because some people love it.

EDIT: FWIW the above statements are oversimplifying the situation of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection

And more here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13585/how-can-i-use...

Most fans of Linux will claim the fact that you can choose any number of clipboard managers to customize things to your liking is a critical aspect that draws them to the platform.

Others among us (whether reformed or uninitiated) will commonly cite this same stuff as the reasons we avoid Linux on the desktop.