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It looks like my time with MacOS is rapidly coming to an end. Any Linux distro recommendations these days?
The feeling reminds me of the first Macbooks I used when switching away from Windows Vista.
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.
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> 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.
I get a fair bit of weekly exposure to Windows 10 and well, it's not like heaps of fun, UX wise.
I'm reluctant to drop Apple mainly because I'm so 'tied up' with the rest of the ecosystem, iphone, Apple Music, iCloud etc.. They are not irreplaceable (for sure) but it always feels like moving away will cost way too much effort and be a pain... Well played, Apple.
From the comments, roughly, are you running third party "security" tools? > Is there any "security" software running on your Mac? I've seen this sort of thing caused by that, but not in general. > I ran the two line test and it had no delay at all. The Mac doesn't check for notarization on shell scripts or any non-bundle executable. I just did it again with a new test2.sh and Wireshark capture and there is nothing. >…
Yes these features could be better implemented, but I'm happy they're there. It's very important to be able to opt out of them, but I like that they're the default.
Notarization needs a cleanup pass and the rest of it seems like it needs an optimization pass.
P.S. The rationale for notarization is to not distribute and thus advertise the filters and detection mechanisms Apple uses to detect malware. If these things were distributed then malware authors could analyze and evade them. Security through obscurity does make a certain amount of sense here as the Church-Turing thesis means there are an infinite number of ways to implement any given thing including malware and there is no single filter or analytical step that can detect all possible malware permutations.
Changing the filename to test2.sh on the Mac (which should trigger the delay, right?) gets 0.006s, 0.006s.
I don't think the shell scripts are doing what they claim (and wouldn't the second run be faster anyway because of caching?)
> This is not just for files downloaded from the internet, nor is it only when you launch them via Finder, this is everything. So even if you write a one line shell script and run it in a terminal, you will get a delay! > Apple’s most recent OS where it appears that low-level system API such as exec and getxattr now do synchronous network activity before returning to the caller. Can anyone confirm this? Because hones…
I'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…
Have you actually done anything to try and fix these issues? Because this is not typical I use 1password and it doesn't take 5 seconds to open. Did I accidently install linux or something? because since it's the OS causing your delay it would be causing me to have the same delay. xcode installs just fine for my entire team. Just did the update myself, worked just fine. I plug into a dock and undock constantly during…