MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Post by TheOtherHobbes » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:45 PM UTC

zeroimpl wrote: post #157

tragomaskhalos wrote: post #60

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That computers are just slower to interact with now is such a truism that we hardly remark upon it any more. It seems utterly insane that in the early 90's I could just run Windows 3.1 on a bit of kit that in all likelihood wouldn't even power a toaster today, and the experience was, well, frictionless. I don't recall ever thinking "wtf is this thing doing ?", whereas today, by contrast, if I have the audacity to be…

I recall windows 95/98 being pretty slow to boot. I also recall being warned by teachers not to move the mouse while things were booting as that would allegedly slow things down further. These days the only real time I wonder "wtf is this thing doing" is when I'm waiting about 5-10 seconds for my mac to wake up from sleep.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #211

Okay, I've tried this test on my MacBook Air 2020 several times, first by saving the "echo Hello" shell script in an editor and then, because I wasn't getting the results the author experienced, trying again exactly as he wrote it. Essentially the same result: airyote% echo $'#!/bin/sh\necho Hello' > /tmp/test.sh airyote% chmod a+x /tmp/test.sh airyote% time /tmp/test.sh && time /tmp/test.sh Hello /tmp/test.sh 0.00s…

Post by saagarjha » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:46 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #216

karatestomp wrote: post #120

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I remember being able to watch network traffic and if you (or some other actual person on you network) weren't doing anything nothing would be there . Yes even if you had a few webpages open but weren't clicking anything. Now your machine's "idle" and you capture on your network interface and it scrolls at hyperspeed.

This is upsetting for me, too. And for a few others. But actually very few people care because they just don't see it. The people who designed it this way take care that users at large have no idea what is going on.

Post by skohan » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:47 PM UTC

soraminazuki wrote: post #278

Up until the release of Catalina, I've always upgraded to the latest version of macOS within a month or two. But some of the changes this time is really stopping me from upgrading. As of Catalina, there's no sane way to install the Nix package manager without losing functionality because macOS now disallows creating new files in the root directory[1]. Nix stores its packages in the /nix directory and it's not possibl…

Post by inimino » Fri, May 22, 2020, 5:48 PM UTC

konart wrote: post #203

inimino wrote: post #144

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I use my work machine for work and my personal equipment for everything else. My iPhone is more standalone then they used to be. I don't see any reason why I'd ever connect my personal phone to my work computer. So I don't see many downsides to making the switch.

Well, I don't have 'work' computer. I have my personal macbook and even more personal iMac. Obviously in case you work only at the office or you use your computer only (lets say 90% time) for work - than there is no problem.