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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: 0.6s | 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. haunter ◴[22 May 20 16:56 UTC] No.23274215[source]▶
>OSX used to be the OS that started really quick

Coldboot Windows 10 from pushing the power button to reaching the login screen is 7s for me (i7-7700, m2 SSD, 32GB RAM).

I never ever had quicker startups on OSX.

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2. kebman ◴[22 May 20 17:19 UTC] No.23274543[source]▶
Once I tried out Mac OS X for the first time during the late 2000's it was really striking how much better OS X was, compared to Windows, epspecially for "creative professions," for video, design and the sort. But since then, I have to hand it to Microsoft; they've really stepped up their game. They even seem to be fixing some of the non-UX compatibilities now. Granted, it's nowhere near good enough, but with PowerShell it's workable, at least for the projects I'm currently working on. For the more demanding stuff, I'll probably still Vbox a Linux distro however, while that has remained completely unnecessary for me on OS X. (I'm speaking about the whole personal experience and package deal here, so that's why I'm not mentioning things like Docker.)