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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: 0.401s | 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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saagarjha ◴[22 May 20 18:56 UTC] No.23275610[source]▶
> 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.

It's possible that they have certain security features disabled.

> 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.

Welcome to Hacker News…this is common on any discussion on any topic, especially one that many people can understand in some way.

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1. cerberusss ◴[22 May 20 19:32 UTC] No.23275971[source]▶
I've noticed the negativity on macOS. There may be reasons for it, I don't know. I'm pretty happy with it and I've started skipping some discussions because of the amount of comments that lack any curiosity, or worthy discussion.
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2. saagarjha ◴[22 May 20 20:08 UTC] No.23276349[source]▶
It's not just macOS. What you really want is a topic that most commenters have no background knowledge or preconceptions about, and you have to make sure that you can't link to one in any way whatsoever. The latter is a little hard to do, because people will cling to the most tenuous of relationships in order to be able to provide their input: you could be talking about a Windows API and someone will bring up EEE through some convoluted path and from there the conversation will go downhill. The best comments are the ones on articles about dolphin psychology or whatever and someone might ask a simple question and a real expert will chime in with something like "I have worked with dolphins for 17 years and also I wrote my doctoral thesis in cetacean-human interactions" and it's just a page of an interesting viewpoint that you just never knew about.