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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 4 comments | 22 May 20 15:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.607s | source
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kar1181 ◴[22 May 20 16:03 UTC] No.23273511[source]▶
I completely understand why things are going the way they are as our computing environment has become ever more hostile. But I am very nostalgic for the time where I would power up a Vic-20 and within seconds be able to get to work.

Teaching my daughter to program on a modern computer, we spend more time bootstrapping and in process, than we do in actual development.

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tragomaskhalos ◴[22 May 20 16:17 UTC] No.23273690[source]▶
That computers are just slower to interact with now is such a truism that we hardly remark upon it any more. It seems utterly insane that in the early 90's I could just run Windows 3.1 on a bit of kit that in all likelihood wouldn't even power a toaster today, and the experience was, well, frictionless. I don't recall ever thinking "wtf is this thing doing?", whereas today, by contrast, if I have the audacity to be afk for long enough for my Windows 10 box to go sleep I know I am in for an infuriating waste of minutes' worth of disk thrashing before the bloody thing even deigns to reacknowledge my existence.
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blyry ◴[22 May 20 16:33 UTC] No.23273897[source]▶
I switched to a linux desktop full time last week because of this exact problem. VPN w/ windows would flake out on me all the time, and I got sooo tired of just...waiting. Remember when windows search worked? Like, you could press the windows key, type what you were looking for and find it? Quickly?

Being able to turn the computer on, type in my password and have it be just..ready is so incredibly refreshing. Having a terminal with 0 latency, where copy/paste is sane? Worth a zillion dollars to me right now.

Currently playing with opensuse tumbleweed, i'll probably get frustrated by something and move to arch, so I can fix that something and also be frustrated by a hundred other things.

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1. fetbaffe ◴[22 May 20 17:46 UTC] No.23274875[source]▶
Rumors on the internets have spoken positively about Opensuse Leap & Tumbleweed, any truth to that?
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2. ChuckNorris89 ◴[22 May 20 18:59 UTC] No.23275640[source]▶
Another vote from me for tumbleweed.
3. blyry ◴[22 May 20 21:08 UTC] No.23277066[source]▶
I don't have a ton of experience with other options, but 2 weeks in and tumbleweed has been pretty plug and play! 0 issues getting my netcore/python/golang/docker dev stack up. I get a weird popping noise in my usb dac at the login screen but that's the only issue I've had so far. Teams screen sharing even works perfectly! I chose it over Ubuntu 20 because I knew I wanted kde and it seems like a first class citizen in tumbleweed, while still being vaguely stable. Not-quite-bleeding edge! I ran freebsd/kde for fun back in the halycon days of lamp stack and gnome never felt...right to me when I would test drive Ubuntu desktop.
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4. fetbaffe ◴[24 May 20 10:57 UTC] No.23290691[source]▶
Good to know. Personally I think that Ubuntu has gone downhill. I preferred unity over gnome. On a fresh install of Ubuntu, gnome is confusing with it's split with two taskbars that has some overlap in functionality.