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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: 0.215s | 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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1. paddlesteamer ◴[23 May 20 18:27 UTC] No.23285193[source]▶
I hate bloated OSs and unfortunately Mac OS is one of them. I know how everyone wants everything to work out of the box and I know it's very natural to want so but I cringe if I find out my OS doing something behind my back. That's why I'd never use Windows, Mac OS, Ubuntu, etc. They all violate my privacy and slow my system to do so.

I use Debian, I like Debian. When I run Wireshark I don't see unknown requests destined to debian.com. That is the definition of simplicity for me. And yes, it doesn't always work out of the box, you have to install some drivers, change configurations but it's getting better and easier. Yet, I'm a software developer so I understand and like that stuff.

> Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

No, you can't define it as a disaster, it's not. If you're an end-user that understands nothing of computers maybe you can but otherwise it's not a disaster. It's just harder and getting easier by day.