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Re: MacOS is the new Windows

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Post by beyondcompute » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

dc3 wrote: post #4

There may just be something wrong with your specific hardware and/or install of Mac. A company like Apple who sources so much hardware straight from manufacturers in China is bound to have some issues here and there. I've had a number of recent MacBook Pros and they've been fine... never seen a sudden restart. I'm even using the Developer Preview of El Capitan. Try exchanging it.

Well maybe. I actually had some more problems with it since unboxing (didn't mention them because they seem random while the described ones somehow already make an impression of being systematic). Gonna check the machine with the service center.

Re: MacOS is the new Windows

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Post by csomar » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

I'm using my MBP 2014 for over a year now. There have been minor (really minor) bugs, but nothing to make uncomfortable. I don't like the Finder and I think it's bad for productivity. But that's it. I have no other complaints.

Re: MacOS is the new Windows

#33

Post by Yetanfou » Thu, Jul 02, 2015, 9:45 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #28

Yetanfou wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, mostly Seamonkey actually but yes, NoScript is installed. However, since some sites just don't work at all without Javascript this is not a panacea. Sometimes I just need to access something which is only available on one of those sites, turning the browser into treacle.

Use cpulimit and limit the process to a 60% of CPU usage. It will crawl, but it wont hang your whole desktop. Also, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

The browser never hangs my desktop, everything stays fluid. It is only the browser itself which slows down to a crawl.

That the desktop stays functional probably is due to it being rather minimalistic - Xmonad, dzen2/dmenu, conky and trayer. It does all it needs to do, no more.

Re: MacOS is the new Windows

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Post by digi_owl » Fri, Jul 03, 2015, 12:55 PM UTC

Yetanfou wrote: post #33

anthk wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use cpulimit and limit the process to a 60% of CPU usage. It will crawl, but it wont hang your whole desktop. Also, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/suspend-tab/

The browser never hangs my desktop, everything stays fluid. It is only the browser itself which slows down to a crawl. That the desktop stays functional probably is due to it being rather minimalistic - Xmonad, dzen2/dmenu, conky and trayer. It does all it needs to do, no more.

I suspect once Mozilla finalizes their multiprocess rework, all that will hang is that specific tab.

Re: MacOS is the new Windows

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Post by 0942v8653 » Sun, Jul 05, 2015, 12:26 PM UTC

Spoom wrote: post #22

I have a Macbook Air running Linux Mint. It runs pretty much perfectly on the machine with rEFInd[1] and lets you dual boot to OS X when you want to. Maybe give that a try; I didn't like OS X either but the hardware is fine! 1. http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html - Note that this project is unfortunately still hosted on SourceForge, so be very careful not to accidentally download a virus with it.

If you're using Debian Jessie (what I'm running right now) or later, don't use rEFInd; EFI install goes beautifully. If you want to dual boot OS X you can just make a boot option that runs

    exit

and call it OS X or whatever. I'm using debian and i3 and I couldn't be happier with my setup (okay, I could, but it's a lot better than OS X!). I don't know how well GRUB EFI works with Mint but I used their live CD for the install and it seems to boot pretty smoothly.