MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Post by unix_fan » Fri, May 22, 2020, 9:03 PM UTC

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I share almost all of these issues. What drives me super nuts is the multi-display support which NEVER "just works". I have to disconnect and reconnect USB-C 3 times, turn off the second monitor, switch inputs, restart the €3000 machines twice or whatever. So annoying, how does this pass QA at all? Also, don't setup and use multiple users at the same time. That's really messy as well.

Since Steve left us, over time I've witnessed so many issues crop up in the Apple ecosytem, for users/customers and developers, and it's clear that there's nobody to be shit-scared of anymore at Apple. So many recent things would have pissed him off. There's no way the 'notch' would have appeared. Nor the fact that the iPhone camera design stopped the device sitting flat on a surface.

Post by vbezhenar » Fri, May 22, 2020, 9:06 PM UTC

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Happy MacPorts user of just over a year as well, for a variety of reasons I won't get into here but that being one of them.

Very satisfied MacPorts user since 16 years. I really don’t get why brew is a thing...

Post by blyry » Fri, May 22, 2020, 9:08 PM UTC

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I switched to a linux desktop full time last week because of this exact problem. VPN w/ windows would flake out on me all the time, and I got sooo tired of just...waiting. Remember when windows search worked? Like, you could press the windows key, type what you were looking for and find it? Quickly? Being able to turn the computer on, type in my password and have it be just..ready is so incredibly refreshing. Having…

Rumors on the internets have spoken positively about Opensuse Leap & Tumbleweed, any truth to that?

Post by grishka » Fri, May 22, 2020, 9:16 PM UTC

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So since these permissions apply to process trees, what happens if you put launchd in there?

The computer will probably hang while it tries to solve the chicken-egg problem. Isn't launchd Mac's ‘init’? I.e. run before anything else.

Post by kempbellt » Fri, May 22, 2020, 9:19 PM UTC

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`mkdir -p /opt/nix` assumes that there is a convention, and that this is the correct convention - which may not be the case for every situation, and would result in creating unnecessary nested directories. You could make a more sophisticated installation script that attempts to install Nix into conventional locations depending on the specific operating system - or user input - but if you want a simple catch-all, simp…

> `mkdir -p /opt/nix` assumes that there is a convention A correct assumption on virtually all relevant extant systems... > which may not be the case for every situation In the supposed scenario where the assumption isn't correct, the downside of /opt/nix vs /nix is basically insignificant. What's the overhead of one level of directory nesting, a single extra inode? Big whoop.