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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 1 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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konart ◴[22 May 20 16:41 UTC] No.23273993[source]▶
I've been using linux distros (~5 years of Ubuntu and ~3 years of Arch) before switching to macOS somewhere around 2013-2014. And now years later I'm thinking about moving back. But every time I'm think about this I start with digging about current Linux situation and every time I realise than it is still a horrible system for anything outside of work, especially if you can't really do without a decent UI\UX.

Apple's ecosystem is also an issue. iOS + macOS is still much better than anything on the market (no alternatives really).

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bitcharmer ◴[22 May 20 17:21 UTC] No.23274560[source]▶
Linux on the desktop has been my daily driver for years (mainly xfce and gnome).

I use linux to watch movies, create music, play games and everything else. What exactly makes it a "horrible system outside of work" for you?

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1. konart ◴[22 May 20 17:39 UTC] No.23274782[source]▶
>Linux on the desktop has been my daily driver for years

Same for me, I've even been a maintainer of one (ONE! lol) AUR package.

>especially if you can't really do without a decent UI\UX.

Outside of a few Electron-base apps and maybe a few native gtk\kde one - everything looks like a work of high schooler. Nobody thinks about the UI\UX.

Compare Things3 and something from linux word. Or Bear. Or Twitterrific\Tweetbot.

But go no further than your system's settings: https://imgur.com/a/p0kl7wM - wtf is this? You have a window that takes 80% of your screen some huge ass controls that still take some 20% of the the whole view. Who thought this was a good idea?

Gnome 3 is even worse (I loved gnome2 back in 2009)