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Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by nvarsj on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @10:04AM (#34413234)
Def the opposite experience for me software wise. Latest joy is chrome hanging whenever tabs are moved. Things randomly seem to crash all the time.

Maybe it’s normal for OS X but my Linux experience is pretty much the opposite - rock solid, everything is fast, and nothing breaks. Granted the hardware does seem really good (except for slow anything to do with x86 and a useless GPU that can’t play games or do VR).

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by GoldenRacer on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:22AM (#34414426)
For me, it's the WiFi that is completely botched. The status bar will frequently display incorrect statuses and trying to select a network from the status bar hardly ever works. I have to go into system preferences which has a tendency to totally freeze up for minutes at a time when I select the network tab.

Then it'll occasionally get into a state where it tells me it's connected to the network but doesn't have Internet access and it must be a problem with the network (I know it's not because I have other devices connected to the same network that work fine). To get out of this, I have to turn WiFi off and back on again but Apple in there infinite wisdom has decided if I turn it off and back on too quickly, I must've done so by mistake and so they don't actually ever turn it off. So I have to turn it off, wait some unknown period of time (I usually wait 30s), and then turn it back on. Drives me crazy.

In the end, every morning when I get to work, I expect it to be roughly 5 minutes between when I arrive and when I'm actually online.

My personal computer running Linux has never had such a ridiculous issue (it does occasionally have issues but they're usually fixable after a quick Google search) but somehow everyone claims Apple just works and Linux is to much of a pain.

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by astrange on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @12:20PM (#34415372)
File a bug. https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

(Or call support, I guess.)

Re:Apple Unveils MacBook Pro Featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max by ggregoire on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:47AM (#34414838)
It's obviously not "normal". I don't have any of the issues you are mentioning.