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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: 0.419s | 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. zozbot234 ◴[22 May 20 17:13 UTC] No.23274457[source]▶
I've never lost a weekend to a Debian dist-upgrade. Just read the release notes carefully beforehand, take a full backup of your data (which you should be doing anyway), make a note of any non-Debian applications you're using on that machine (that's the stuff that will need the most extensive testing post-upgrade) and it should simply work.
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2. m463 ◴[23 May 20 05:42 UTC] No.23280252[source]▶
I have. debian, raspbian, ubuntu. A few times it has gone well, only to find there was cruft left over from previous installs.

"it should simply work" is not a given on any linux.

I'm not denigrating those distributions, there are lots of reasons to have a stable release without a lot of things changing (especially development).

It's just that changing lots of assumptions at once is fragile.