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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: 0.2s | source
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leephillips ◴[22 May 20 15:56 UTC] No.23273433[source]▶
This is completely insane. I am so glad I decided years ago to leave closed operating systems behind.

This design seems to cement the trend at Apple to position their products as consumer appliances, not platforms useful for development.

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Nextgrid ◴[22 May 20 16:03 UTC] No.23273517[source]▶
> I am so glad I decided years ago to leave closed operating systems behind.

The problem is, there's nothing else out there. Everything is going to shit in one way or another. Windows is now a disaster, Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

Mac OS was the last bastion of somewhat good, thoughtful design, user experience and attention to detail and now they've gone to shit too.

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kick ◴[22 May 20 16:06 UTC] No.23273559[source]▶
Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

Curious: what have you tried? People who use "Linux" as a catch-all in terms of UX usually have only tried a single distribution with a single desktop environment.

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BruceEel ◴[22 May 20 16:18 UTC] No.23273700[source]▶
Interesting. I regularly use RHEL (server/CLI only) but have not tried desktop Linux in a while.

I get a fair bit of weekly exposure to Windows 10 and well, it's not like heaps of fun, UX wise.

I'm reluctant to drop Apple mainly because I'm so 'tied up' with the rest of the ecosystem, iphone, Apple Music, iCloud etc.. They are not irreplaceable (for sure) but it always feels like moving away will cost way too much effort and be a pain... Well played, Apple.

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1. The_Colonel ◴[22 May 20 17:51 UTC] No.23274929[source]▶
> I'm reluctant to drop Apple mainly because I'm so 'tied up' with the rest of the ecosystem, iphone, Apple Music, iCloud etc.. They are not irreplaceable (for sure) but it always feels like moving away will cost way too much effort and be a pain... Well played, Apple.

This is why I don't want anything by Apple.