The weird thing is the price of windows laptops have skyrocketed with the shortages. New MBPs are cheaper than X1 Carbons and XPSs with 10gen chips.
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
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Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#32> a degraded user experience, as the first time a user runs a new executable, Apple delays execution while waiting for a reply from their server. The way to avoid this behavior is to staple the notarization ticket to your bundle (or dmg/pkg), i.e. "/usr/bin/stapler staple ." Otherwise, Gatekeeper will fetch the ticket and staple it for the user on the first run. (I'm the author of xcnotary [1], a tool to make notariz…
I mean, when I’m developing in a compiled language with the workflow edit code -> compile -> run (with forced stapling), changing it to edit code -> compile -> staple -> run doesn’t make it any less slow...
Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#33> [...] it appears that low-level system API such as exec and getxattr now do synchronous network activity before returning to the caller.
WTAF. If this is really true, this is a reason for me to leave the platform for good. This is just in-acceptable in so many ways.
Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#34I've been forced to update to this pile of shit because latest iOS requires latest Xcode which in turn requires Catalina. It's a nightmare. First off the new apps (music, podcasts, etc) are terrible. They killed off iTunes but replaced it with much worse. These apps don't behave like standard macOS apps, the UI is full of inconsistencies and is just so empty. This website has nice examples of the failures of modern M…
Re: downloading Xcode, this page has saved me hours: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10335747/how-to-download.... It's just a list of direct links to each version of Xcode at apple.com. Mystery why Mac App Store downloads still can't be bulletproof after all these years.
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#35I hope Apple currently has a team focused on macOS perf.
I worked on the team in charge of improving iOS (13) perf at Apple and IIRC there was no dedicated macOS “task force” like the one on iOS.
Luckily some iOS changes permeated into macOS thanks to some shared codebases.
Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#36In our company many of us have similar issues. I have always loved OSX but this time it is driving me crazy. I though the issue was some sort of company antivirus/firewall, or it could even be a combination of that and this issue (maybe my vpn + path to company firewall is what magnifies the issue in this post). The thing is that some commands take 1 second, some others take 2 minutes or even more. Actually, some commands slow down the computer until they are finished (more likely, until they just decide to start).
For example, I can run "terraform apply" and it could take up to 5 minutes to start, leaving my computer almost unusable until it runs. The weird thing is that this only happens sometimes. In some cases, I restart the laptop and it starts working a little bit faster, but the issue comes back after some time.
It's already been a few months since I try to run every command from a VM in a remote location, since I am tired of waiting for my commands to start.
I have a macbook air from 2013 which never had this issue.
Any easy fix that I could test? Disconnecting from the internet is not an option. Disabling SIP could be tried, but I think I already did and didn't seem to fix it, plus it is not a good idea for a company laptop.
Don't we have some sort of hosts file or firewall that we can use to block or fake the connectivity to apple servers?
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#38This 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.
> 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.
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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#39Nearly every article I see about macOS or Windows these days further confirms to me that switching entirely to Linux was the right call. Maybe 2020 will be the year of the Linux Desktop by default.
Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#40The funny thing is its not transitive. No slowdown if you invoke bash specifically with a new shell.
% rm /tmp/test.sh ; echo $'#!/bin/sh\necho Hello' > /tmp/test.sh && chmod a+x /tmp/test.sh
% time bash /tmp/test.sh && time bash /tmp/test.sh
Hello
bash /tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 83% cpu 0.004 total
Hello
bash /tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 77% cpu 0.003 total
vs the one from the article:
% rm /tmp/test.sh ; echo $'#!/bin/sh\necho Hello' > /tmp/test.sh && chmod a+x /tmp/test.sh
% time /tmp/test.sh && time /tmp/test.sh
Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 2% cpu 0.134 total
Hello
/tmp/test.sh 0.00s user 0.00s system 73% cpu 0.004 total
(edited for formating)