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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: 0s | source
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crazygringo ◴[22 May 20 18:50 UTC] No.23275526[source]▶
I'm so confused about the comments here.

There are a bunch of people who can't reproduce the slowness at all, but nearly all downvoted or you have to wade through 100's of comments to get to them.

The majority of comments are just dumping on Macs, nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the article, and seem to be blindly assuming it's true.

And I can't seem to find any substantive discussion of whether this is actually real or not, or just some weird bug on the author's machine.

I don't see any evidence that Catalina is "slow by design", just a single anecdote from the author. I was definitely hoping for some more substantive critique/discussion...

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1. defnotashton2 ◴[22 May 20 19:25 UTC] No.23275923[source]▶
Op linked validated bug reports.. One of which Apple responded with "by design" of which op derived the title.

The down votes are because it seems pretty clear that the people who don't experience have long lived instances of their os and likely have grandfathered or disabled security settings. There are a lot of people saying ita pretty easy to replicate with a new os.

And it is, I just did it. Did you?

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2. crazygringo ◴[22 May 20 21:25 UTC] No.23277246[source]▶
No they didn't, there's no link. They said it's "FB7674490" but Googling that reveals nothing, so I can't read it.

I don't know what the bug report said, or what specifically was by design. Surely "the entire machine freeze for 1-2 seconds every 10th minute, not to mention everything just being sluggish" is not by design.

And I was unable to replicate it (I was one of the comments that got downvoted), although I don't have the luxury of trying a fresh OS. I haven't disabled any security settings, and I don't know what would have been grandfathered -- that's not mentioned anywhere in the article as a factor.

So that's what's bothering me -- the assumption that contradictory evidence isn't valid while the original post somehow is, and no discussion around that, or what tradeoffs there might be.

Now, finally, there are actually some substantive comments from people testing it. There wasn't before though, and it's still unclear as to whether this really is bad design, a wise tradeoff, or if the author's machine has something else going on. Because their experience of a frustratingly slow Mac is just not the norm at all.