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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: 0.453s | 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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jcadam ◴[22 May 20 16:21 UTC] No.23273740[source]▶
I switched from MacOS to Linux years ago. For a developer workstation these days I'd probably either go with Ubuntu LTS or Fedora (my personal choice). Either runs fine on my XPS 13.

Note: I really wanted to like WSL, but it just didn't work for me.

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1. _fullpint ◴[22 May 20 16:55 UTC] No.23274200[source]▶
Have you looked into WSL2?

I just recently switched from Mac OS to windows and it really hasn’t been a bad experience.

I would go full Linux but the drivers for the GPU on my laptop seem to be a bit of a mess currently.

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2. jcadam ◴[22 May 20 17:01 UTC] No.23274285[source]▶
GPU switching (NVIDIA Optimus and the like) seems to be a major headache to get working on Linux. My current laptop (XPS 13) only has an integrated GPU, so I ssh into a desktop for running CUDA stuff.

But no, haven't tried WSL2, I'm comfortable with my Linux setup so not to keen on messing with it at the moment :)