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MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

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2031 points jrk | 1 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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swebs ◴[22 May 20 16:13 UTC] No.23273636[source]▶
Linux has been a delight to use for me. Things were rough 10-15 years ago, but it's pretty amazing now.
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BruceEel ◴[22 May 20 16:26 UTC] No.23273806[source]▶
Any distro in particular you'd recommend?
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tsukurimashou ◴[22 May 20 17:06 UTC] No.23274364{3}[source]▶
not him but same experience, from my previous comment:

I would recommend: Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS

if you want: nice experience out of the box

I would recommend: Arch, Gentoo, Debian Net inst, Void

if you want a base system and install things you want on top of it

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RockIslandLine ◴[22 May 20 18:16 UTC] No.23275196{4}[source]▶
Gentoo needs vastly better documentation to be useful.
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1. tsukurimashou ◴[23 May 20 13:44 UTC] No.23282874{5}[source]▶
I would say that Archwiki covers a lot of things for a lot of distros, but yeah I would only recommend Gentoo to 'advanced' users, or if you really want to get into it the hard way.