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> This hardware is really being held back by the operating system at this point. Please elucidate.
by jagged-chisel 2y ago
> This hardware is really being held back by the operating system at this point.
Please elucidate.
- diggan 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243075 ("Apple's Software Quality Crisis" - 1134 comments) ^ has a lot of elaborations on this subject
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- internetter 2y agoThis is more about "average" end user software, not the type of software that would be running on a machine like this. Yes their applications fell off, but if you're paying for 512gb of RAM apple notes being slow isn't the bottleneck
- diggan 2y agoLack of focus on quality of software affects all types of workloads, not just consumer-oriented or professional-oriented in isolation.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoNah, if I ever wrote an article about the software crisis on the Linux desktop, there’d be flames here making Apple’s issues look small.
- diggan 2y agoIt'd be an interesting flame war in the comments, if nothing else, go for it! I'm happy to give plenty of concrete evidence why Linux is more suitable for professionals than macOS is in 2025 :)
- hedora 2y agoTry copy pasting bash snippets between any linux text editor and terminal. Now try the same with notes on a mac. Notes mangles the punctuation and zsh is not bash.
- rafram 2y agoNotes is a rich-text editor. If you don’t want smart quotes, use a plain-text file in TextEdit, or Sublime or Vim or whatever.
- internetter 2y agoOmg I despise the fact that there's n competing GUI standards on linux, zero visual consistency. I love diversity in websites, and apps for that matter, but this isn't diversity, it is the uncanny valley between bespoke graphic design and homogeneity. Say what you want about SwiftUI, but it makes consistent, good looking apps. Unless something has changed, GTK is a usability disaster. And that's before I get into how much both X11 and wayland suck equally. There's so much I miss about Linux, but there's so much I don't
- WD-42 2y agoPeople are paying the richest company in the world for their software crisis on Linux.
- knowitnone 2y agoif you do write something, please seperate enterprise, developer, end user, embedded/RT because they all have different requirements.
- internetter 2y ago> Lack of focus on quality of software affects all types of workloads, not just consumer-oriented or professional-oriented in isolation. The apps are developed by different teams. MacOS apps are containerized. Saying macOS's performance is hindered by Notes.app is like saying that Windows is hindered by Paint.exe. Notes.app is just a default[0] [0]: though, I dislike saying this because I always feel like I need to mention that even Notes links against a hilarious amount of private APIs that could easily be exposed to other developers but... aren't.
- InTheArena 2y agoNo native docker support, no headless management options (enterprise strength), Limited QoS management, lack of robust python support (out of the box), interactive user focused security model.
- bredren 2y ago>lack of robust python support (out of the box) What would robust python support oob look like?
- FergusArgyll 2y agouv pre-installed! /s
- flats 2y agoI feel you on a lot of this! But out of the box Python support? Does anybody actually want that? It’s pretty darn quick & straightforward to get a Python environment up & running on MacOS. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean here.
- p_ing 2y agoNo one would want OOTB Python support. You'd be stuck on a version you didn't want to use.
- hedora 2y agoI want it. That way, like code I write in any other language, it’ll run reliably on other people’s machines a few years from now. I avoid writing python, so I’m usually the “other people” in that sentence.
- fauigerzigerk 2y ago>it’ll run reliably on other people’s machines a few years from now That's optimistic. What if the system Python gets upgraded? For some reason, Python libraries tend to be super picky about the Python versions they support (not just Python 2 vs 3).
- e40 2y agoI torrent things from two different hosts on my gigabit network. The macos stack literally cannot handle the full bandwidth I have. It fails and the machine needs to be rebooted to fix it. It’s not pretty on the way into this state, either. Other remote connections to the computer are unreliable. On Linux, running the same app in a docker container works perfectly. Transmission is the app.
- petecooper 2y ago>Transmission is the app. Former Transmission user here. I realise you didn't ask, but you might find some improvements in qBittorrent.
- jihadjihad 2y agoI haven't had any issue running BiglyBT on my M1 MacBook, granted I don't run it all day every day but everything runs plenty fast for my needs (25-30 MB/s for well-seeded torrents).
- jeffhuys 2y agoI went to Transmission years and years ago because it's just simple. It has all the options if you need them, but no HUUUGE interface with RSS feeds, 10001 stats about your download, categories, tags, etc etc etc. Transmission is just a small, floating window with your downloads. Click for more. It fits in the macOS vibe. But I'm a person that fully adopted the original macOS "way of working" - kicked the full-screen habit I had in windows and never felt better. Can I ask, why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent?
- petecooper 2y ago>why would you go FROM Transmission to qBittorrent? In my case: some torrents wouldn't find known-good seeds in Transmission but worked fine in qBittorrent; there's reasonable (but not perfect) support for libtorrent 2.0 in qBittorrent; my download speeds and overall responsiveness is anecdotally better in qBittorrent, and; I make use of some of the nitty gritty settings in qBittorrent.
- drumttocs8 2y agoTo expatiate with perspicuity: The Apple ecosystem is a walled garden.