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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 3 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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inimino ◴[22 May 20 16:08 UTC] No.23273586[source]▶
It looks like my time with MacOS is rapidly coming to an end. Any Linux distro recommendations these days?
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m463 ◴[22 May 20 16:28 UTC] No.23273837[source]▶
After you've gotten used to Linux, you might want to try Arch.

It is lightweight, since you choose everything that is installed, sort of opt-in.

It has all the latest software.

It has "rolling releases" which means there is never a giant lost-weekend distribution upgrade.

It has the AUR (arch user repository) for just about any software ever.

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1. inimino ◴[22 May 20 16:31 UTC] No.23273874[source]▶
I used Arch on a server once (still running) but found the experience on Debian was more to my taste, and somehow never liked pacman. Maybe it's time to take another look. I never tried it on the desktop.
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2. sergeykish ◴[22 May 20 19:15 UTC] No.23275810[source]▶
Interesting, I have opposite experience. Pacman looks so much simpler than aptitude, apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg. And makepkg - it just works. I have not managed to create packages on Ubuntu.

No outdated packages, no ppa. No upgrade. Install is rough but it nails how simple the system is.

Ubuntu is a good starting point. But there is so much more.

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3. m463 ◴[23 May 20 05:50 UTC] No.23280286[source]▶
I agree about makepkg / PKGBUILD -- I've casually made packages.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

For debian/ubuntu it is not as straightforward.