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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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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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m463 ◴[22 May 20 16:22 UTC] No.23273748[source]▶
People who have used ubuntu might want to just once try arch linux.

I had an ubuntu machine that took a while to boot even with an SSD. Later I installed arch linux on the same machine and boom! it would be to the desktop in seconds. It was night and day.

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zozbot234 ◴[22 May 20 17:02 UTC] No.23274308[source]▶
Debian is just as quick, and does not have the problematic "rolling" updates of Arch. (It does have the "testing" and "unstable" channels which are roughly comparable, but the Debian folks won't tell you to use them in production.)
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kick ◴[22 May 20 18:15 UTC] No.23275173[source]▶
Debian is not just as quick (significantly slower and higher resource usage), but Arch isn't all that fast nowadays, either.
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1. catalogia ◴[22 May 20 19:57 UTC] No.23276218[source]▶
> Debian is not just as quick (significantly slower and higher resource usage)

In which respects? Are you talking about apt vs pacman or something? Default DEs?

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2. kick ◴[23 May 20 00:58 UTC] No.23278810[source]▶
Default install; a default Debian install has about 3x running.