Re:Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur
by alpaca128 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:33AM
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> * nVidia ads popping up in the lower-right corner
Sounds like you have Nvidia's "Geforce Experience"(or whatever
it's called) installed. Good thing is you probably don't need
it.
> * Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds (I believe it is phoning home the way macOS does, not sure).
Huh, that is weird. Have you tried turning off this phoning home
feature? I think it's called SmartScreen on Windows 10 and you
can disable it somewhere. But Microsoft are really the masters
of UI dark patterns when it comes to this; they let you disable
most of this crap during install but only via near invisible
buttons to access these options.
But I agree Windows 10 is insanely frustrating at times. It's
what ultimately gave me the last push I needed to switch to
Linux.
Sounds like you have Nvidia's "Geforce Experience"(or whatever it's called) installed. Good thing is you probably don't need it.
> * Starting a new app takes about 15~30 seconds (I believe it is phoning home the way macOS does, not sure).
Huh, that is weird. Have you tried turning off this phoning home feature? I think it's called SmartScreen on Windows 10 and you can disable it somewhere. But Microsoft are really the masters of UI dark patterns when it comes to this; they let you disable most of this crap during install but only via near invisible buttons to access these options.
But I agree Windows 10 is insanely frustrating at times. It's what ultimately gave me the last push I needed to switch to Linux.