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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 2 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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kebman ◴[22 May 20 16:49 UTC] No.23274125[source]▶
OSX used to be the OS that started really quick, and ran really smoothly. Certainly far better than Windows. Also search was lightning fast. It was a selling point on its own. But recently it has slowed to a crawl. And I have to ask, what business is it to Apple whether I store a script somewhere? I don't even want them to have a checksum. And I don't want to go through the bother of having to change settings for it either. Do they even ask if this is OK? For me this is just yet another reason to steer well clear of Apple products in the near future. Very sad, because I really used to love their stuff.
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1. zozbot234 ◴[22 May 20 16:54 UTC] No.23274174[source]▶
> OSX used to be the OS that started really quick, and ran really smoothly.

It was quite slow compared to OS 9, but even most Linux installs have way better performance on equivalent hardware. Windows really is dog slow by comparison.

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2. kebman ◴[22 May 20 17:22 UTC] No.23274584[source]▶
This is true, but then Linux has a whole host of other issues that makes it nigh unusable for Muggles and non professionals. Thus, if they're not an avid gamer, I'd usually recommend OS X, until about 2016. Then I stopped doing that.