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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: 0.234s | source
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halotrope ◴[22 May 20 16:29 UTC] No.23273850[source]▶
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 on a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen2 and you would be surprised how "normal" it feels as a development machine. Sure there some little annoyances, the touchpad behaves a little worse than on windows, sound is a little worse. But the most important things, Keyboard and Screen are excellent. The system in general does not feel like the horror stories that people keep telling about linux on desktop(notebook). Now that WSL2 is getting Cuda even windows looks workable. Their new terminal app is amazing. After a decade of Mac notebooks it was quite liberating and I would not switch back even if the flaws in macOS would be fixed. It is for sure the nicest of the big 3 operating systems but for development work Ubuntu is hard to beat for me. YMMV but it won't hurt to look around you what else is there.
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1. marssaxman ◴[22 May 20 18:42 UTC] No.23275458[source]▶
I never intended to switch away from Mac OS; it just sort of... happened. As Mac OS has grown more paternalistic over the years without adding any notable capabilities that I care about, it's felt steadily easier to just go use Linux instead. It has its own frustrations, but it can always be made to do what I want, and then it just behaves. Starting around Ubuntu 16.04, I found that the balance of frustration was tipping; these days I don't really bother to use my personal Mac any more. I still have one for work, but I'd certainly rather use Linux there too if I had the option.