Also, what does 47 GB of used disk space on macOS have to do with 2 GB of RAM used on Linux?
Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
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Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#32I'm not sure about macOS in that way either. I get disk full errors on my 256GB macbook which has maybe 40GB of stuff I want and the rest seems to be crap that auto downloads. I guess there's some way to control it? But it goes away from the "it just works" Apple ethos.
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#33Not Asahi but I recently revived a 10-year-old MacBook Pro (MBP 2015) that had been sitting in my closet for many years by installing Fedora on it. To my surprise, it's fast and sleek, just like a brand new computer. All of the drivers worked! The laptop now serves as a desktop when I'm at home and as an SSH server when I'm at work. And my 5-year-old M1 MacBook is now sitting in the closet, waiting for its turn in th…
I think you'll find the M1 macbook runs Fedora even better
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#34Not on my machine with only one files about 100MB. Still Why on earth do they do that? I keep thinking if Apple is deliberately doing it. From Safari constantly writing 100GBs per day on paging, to this. It is the small things Apple no longer cared about which is worrying in terms of company culture.
It could either be a bug, or they clicked on every screensaver in System Settings to download them years ago, or screensaver was set to Random.
Either way, when you are in a business of selling relatively cheap models with very low storage option and charge a fat extra for more modern options, you have incentives to fill the space on your device a bit faster.
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#35Not Asahi but I recently revived a 10-year-old MacBook Pro (MBP 2015) that had been sitting in my closet for many years by installing Fedora on it. To my surprise, it's fast and sleek, just like a brand new computer. All of the drivers worked! The laptop now serves as a desktop when I'm at home and as an SSH server when I'm at work. And my 5-year-old M1 MacBook is now sitting in the closet, waiting for its turn in th…
I run couple servers with NixOs, one on MBA 2015 and another one on ThinkPad x240. Works well
Re: Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
#36It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported feature…
It's surprisingly common, if you ask around. I owned a Mac for a few years, daily drove it, and the first-party advertising eventually pushed me over the edge to GNOME. Been using Linux for ~6 years now, every time I log onto a Mac the issue is only worse.
You might not be able to conceptualize this being an issue. Half the Mac owners I've known in my life eventually left MacOS over an arbitrary software default that impeded their workflow.
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#37It's sort of insane to switch to an almost completely unrelated operating system because of such a trivial feature as a screensaver. It doesn't download those screensavers unprompted, you have to actually select them in the System Settings. It's hard to believe that anyone who thought that a Mac was the right computer for them could so easily switch to Linux on hardware which has a great number of unsupported feature…
I'm fairly sure this was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
There's a fair amount of arse-hatery in MacOS that by itself won't make you switch, but I can easily imagine it mounting up past intolerability. In fact, I don't need to imagine it, because I'm nearly there.
The iPhone is even worse, because at least on MacOS I can fix most the design decisions via secret settings in the terminal.
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#38It doesn’t download these by default. All the wallpaper and screensaver downloads are user initiated in their respective UI. Did you click the download button on them by any chance, and forget about it?
If I clicked download on some screensavers, I would never think it had downloaded _4K@240FPS resulting in 47 GB of lost disk space!_ The fact that a big warning doesn't come up with this fact makes it even less excusable.
It's like if I went to the dentist for a filling and received a bill for 1k because "you know, those titanium fillings are expensive". Who asked you for titanium you lunatic?!
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#39Unfortunately I think you will find that Linux also has bugs and poor designs
Recently tried a Linux desktop and was delighted to see that any design decisions I didn't agree with could be easily configured.
I'm sure there are bugs, but I didn't encounter any.
On the other hand, many of the poorly thought out design decisions on Mac can not be touched (and the ones that can be configured have to be done via secret commands), and I run into bugs regularly.
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#40NH users are a special breed. The slightest inconvenience in MacOS or Windows occurs, and instead of spending the 2 minutes it takes to fix it, they jump ship and embark on months long journey of pain and suffering, complete with blog essay.