MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by coldpie on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:13PM (#23273647)

I think the fact is there simply isn't a solution that works for both the "layperson" and highly technical people who want to do development. Laypeople cannot be trusted to admin their machines, but experts need access to those bits. Leaving a backdoor to real admin access for the experts just means laypeople will abuse those backdoors and mess up their machines again, with dire consequences for the entire planet. You see the same problem with power user UI features vs dumbing down for phones and average users. People keep trying to bridge this divide and I'm just not sure it can be done.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by AlexandrB on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:20PM (#23275232)

> Laypeople cannot be trusted to admin their machines

Yeah, but they're the ones who paid for their machines. So... you're saying they're not allowed to use them how they wish?

> Leaving a backdoor to real admin access for the experts just means laypeople will abuse those backdoors and mess up their machines again

Remembering the last 20 years of computer history, most of the critical fail wasn't caused by "laypeople abusing backdoors" but horrible security holes in popular, widely used software packages: Outlook, Flash, Acrobat Reader, Internet Explorer. Apple/Microsoft are not locking down their OSs to protect users from themselves, but rather from other developers. We, software engineers, seem to have completely failed our users as a profession.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by saagarjha on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:40PM (#23276031)

Someone being tricked into installing malware doesn't usually make the news.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by bitcharmer on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:30PM (#23274666)

> Linux was always a disaster in terms of user experience and isn't improving.

This as true today as saying java is slow. Why not just try? You might get pleasantly surprised.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by chacha2 on Friday May 22, 2020 @10:40PM (#23279367)

I've tried it recently and still find it true. Death by a million paper cuts.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by bitcharmer on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:17PM (#23293401)

What did you try recently? Java or Linux?

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by saagarjha on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:44PM (#23274037)

Chrome OS?

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