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24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
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Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#112This is one of the primary resaons I ditched Windows for Macos. The multitasking on Windows is ridiculously bad. Also, applications that freeze and can't be killed/restarted are simply part of life on Windows. Add to all that, Window slows down over time - again, the periodic reformat and rebuild is part of life on Windows. After I switched to Mac I didn't need to rebuild the operating system essentially ever. Also,…
Anecdotally, that's not my experience with Windows these days at all. I've never had the whole system freeze up on my Win10 desktop. Never noticed a slowdown or app that can't be killed, and never done a reformat or rebuild. Windows Update is mildly annoying when it decides to reboot your system for you, though usually when you're not using it. The registry seems fine to me too. Okay it's not perfect, but I don't think it's meaningfully worse than the MacOS or Linux system of configs in text files with various types of special formats all over the place, unless of course it's some kind of binary format that can only be modified with a special CLI program.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#113I hold out forlorn hope that someday my modern workstation will achieve the responsiveness and fast boot times of my Commodore 128. Not joking in the least.
I feel the same way about TV. I miss the ability to quickly flip through channels. When I was younger and my family had our first internet connection my dad said "One day internet webpages will load like changing channels on the TV - click click click. instant page loads" Today TV soo much slower and webpage are... well... you know.
I played around with the `dillo` web browser a couple years ago. It doesn't support javascript, but it was oh so amazing to experience it as you describe.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#114This is one of the primary resaons I ditched Windows for Macos. The multitasking on Windows is ridiculously bad. Also, applications that freeze and can't be killed/restarted are simply part of life on Windows. Add to all that, Window slows down over time - again, the periodic reformat and rebuild is part of life on Windows. After I switched to Mac I didn't need to rebuild the operating system essentially ever. Also,…
> This is one of the primary resaons I ditched Windows for Macos.
The raison I just ditched Fedora for ubuntu...
The raison I ditched MacOS for Windows is that MacOS is slowly but surely becoming a magnified version of iOS... One day you will have to jailbreak if you want administrator rights on your ~~personal computer~~ Macbook.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#115Sounds like Windows needs this 200 line kernel patch that sped things up for linux in 2010 [1]
"The patch being talked about is designed to automatically create task groups per TTY in an effort to improve the desktop interactivity under system strain."
"Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times."
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did they? My MacBook is much worse at multitasking. In fact the OS I've found to be best at multitasking is Debian/Ubuntu.
A decade with Ubuntu and I get why it’s free. I have disastrous performance issues with it, for reasons that people usually respond, “oh well that’s not Ubuntu’s fault…” but that isn’t a great excuse as users do not care (unless you aren’t intending to attract general users). Most of the issue is that I have to fight with nvidia video drivers every month or two. Something happens and they stop operating and it grinds…
I used nvidia with linux >10 years ago. Never again. The FOSS philosophy doesn't mesh well with binary blobs and it never will.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, the 2019 MBPs were absolute abominations. I spent 5k AUD on a fully kitted out MBP and performance wise it’s one of the worst computers I’ve ever owned. I swore that would be the last Apple computer I ever bought, but then they released the M1s… and they are very good. Would recommend getting an M1 if at all possible. There’s still time to ask Santa for one.
I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years, and if it doesn't, you can just change the CPU for a better one without having to throw all the other, perfectly good hardware away.
> I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years…
Macs have famously-long usable lives — my sister uses a 7-year-old iMac, for example. The latest macOS Ventura supports Macs made in 2017. I'd be very surprised to hear about people using 2021 Framework laptops as their daily driver in 2026.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
A decade with Ubuntu and I get why it’s free. I have disastrous performance issues with it, for reasons that people usually respond, “oh well that’s not Ubuntu’s fault…” but that isn’t a great excuse as users do not care (unless you aren’t intending to attract general users). Most of the issue is that I have to fight with nvidia video drivers every month or two. Something happens and they stop operating and it grinds…
I used nvidia with linux >10 years ago. Never again. The FOSS philosophy doesn't mesh well with binary blobs and it never will.
The wild thing is that using the Additional Drivers UI is what bricked my computer last week. It probably downloaded some binaries but it also spent 30 mins running gcc compiling something. And then forced a kernel headers update but didn’t update anything else. Rebooted and I have no wifi or bluetooth.
The fix was a reversion and then CLI install of the nvidia 515 drivers.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#119I hold out forlorn hope that someday my modern workstation will achieve the responsiveness and fast boot times of my Commodore 128. Not joking in the least.
Can still be done if all you want is a command-line to come up and be responsive. Most folks want web, email, images, and even a bit of security from their computer today. Could always be faster, but I think the days of "bam!" ready are past due to those requirements. Unless the computer is only sleeping, like an iphone for example.
The average user doesn't even boot the computer. It's just always on and wakes pretty much instantly.
Re: 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse (2017)
#120Thermal throttling, dirty fans, poor process isolation and scheduling, and so forth.