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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: 0.411s | source
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kar1181 ◴[22 May 20 16:03 UTC] No.23273511[source]▶
I completely understand why things are going the way they are as our computing environment has become ever more hostile. But I am very nostalgic for the time where I would power up a Vic-20 and within seconds be able to get to work.

Teaching my daughter to program on a modern computer, we spend more time bootstrapping and in process, than we do in actual development.

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1. amelius ◴[22 May 20 20:26 UTC] No.23276540[source]▶
We're moving away from general purpose computing, and Apple is one of the greatest forces in this.

Also, they are a threat to a free market for software, as they regulate their walled garden with arbitrary rules and skim off a lot of value.

I honestly don't understand why a large portion of developers have so much love for Apple. I'm personally a proud owner of a desktop PC with an ASUS motherboard. It serves me fine, and gives me full control over the software installed on it. I'm not a laptop-person but I believe there are many perfectly capable non-Apple laptops out there.

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2. pjmlp ◴[22 May 20 21:37 UTC] No.23277337[source]▶
Because for those of us that care about graphics and selling desktop applications, it is mostly Apple, Google or Microsoft platforms.