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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by zimpenfish on Friday October 05, 2018 @05:00AM (#18146705)
Whereas when I boot my games box into Windows 10 and it sits there saying "Applying updates" for 45 minutes before rebooting and then thrashing itself into unusability for another 45-60 minutes doing ... something ... I feel like I'm being trolled by MS.
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by consp on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:03AM (#18147146)
I have the same experience with the force upgrades of OSX (due to xcode). Download is big, require massive 21G of free space, takes ages to update on older MBPs, everything gets more sluggish after the update and crashes more often...
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by dep_b on Friday October 05, 2018 @07:53AM (#18147369)
That's just once per year?

Microsoft throws away all of your open work at least every month. NSDocument alone is 25% of the reason I stay with macOS.

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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by H1Supreme on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:23AM (#18147873)
I haven't used XCode in a while, but I was always amazed when I had to download the entire, massive, application every update. Android Studio has fairly consistent updates that are around 150-500mb on average.
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by highace on Friday October 05, 2018 @08:30AM (#18147556)
You can turn this off. I haven't done an update in at least a year.
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by natch on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:01AM (#18147741)
Wow. So you don’t apply security patches? Or am I not understanding what you are saying?
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Re:Apple's Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repai... by rikkus on Saturday October 06, 2018 @06:21AM (#18154413)
And then proceeds to show you adverts
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