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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: 0.414s | source
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inimino ◴[22 May 20 16:08 UTC] No.23273586[source]▶
It looks like my time with MacOS is rapidly coming to an end. Any Linux distro recommendations these days?
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j45 ◴[22 May 20 16:17 UTC] No.23273693[source]▶
Ubuntu 20 has been a pleasant surprise, it seems to have turned a productivity and speed corner.. I've been getting lost in it for hours on end and forgetting to use my MacBook.

The feeling reminds me of the first Macbooks I used when switching away from Windows Vista.

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1. mindfulhack ◴[22 May 20 23:29 UTC] No.23278292[source]▶
That feels amazing to finally hear some good Ubuntu news. We need it. The only sleeker options for privacy (Windows and macOS) are horrendous. Thanks for sharing, might try out Ubuntu 20 then, might be as sleek at Linux Mint?
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2. j45 ◴[23 May 20 20:51 UTC] No.23286317[source]▶
It’s funny you mention Linux Mint, it was the only other distraction I could get lost in for hours. I’d still be fine with Mintfor personal browsing. At the time, I was running mint in a vm on MacOS to try it out and Cinnamon was much more performant than Ubuntu 18. Ubuntu 19/20 however seems to have narrowed or closed that gap.

So far Ubuntu has been great as a default dev/staging workstation. It’s nice not to have to fight with homebrew or docker permissions or other issues on the Mac and spin up most anything.. and it just works.