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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: 0.223s | 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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tsukurimashou ◴[22 May 20 17:05 UTC] No.23274337[source]▶
I feel like people still have in mind what Linux desktop was 15 / 20 years ago. It improved a lot in the past years, battery life improved on laptops, Ubuntu that was already very stable and feature complete also got a lot of things with previous releases and I've personally been running Arch on my main computers now for 5+ years and haven't got any major issues while upgrading.
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defnotashton2 ◴[22 May 20 19:43 UTC] No.23276074[source]▶
Try using the latest version of software that has a more frequent release cycle than arch. If you have an incompatibility there goes your install.

Have yet to see a distro do multi monitor hi dipi that results in readable fonts out of the box..

This gets updated yearly - https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.t...

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1. hexchain ◴[24 May 20 21:51 UTC] No.23295166[source]▶
Arch does not have a release cycle, sorry.