khmFeb 28
I have now completed two full working weeks with an M4-processor Apple laptop running MacOS. I had heard a lot about how amazing and fast these things are, and let me tell you: no

utter horseshit, the speed is pretty unremarkable (it's fine) but the OS itself reminds me of 2007-era linux (nothing works quite right, random UI elements lag, text scaling doesn't meaningfully work, every program comes with a quirks list because each model is apparently differently broken)
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@khm they seemed really fast if you were coming from Windows 10 or an Intel Mac where the OS and bad software overhead had totally swamped the performance of Intel and AMD chips at the time.

The M-series was a sudden jump up in processor speed. After a couple of years, the software gained enough new slowness to match the previous slowness running on Intel.

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@khm occasionally you will find a place where some software can enter an inner loop, like rendering audio or video or something, and it's like "oh shit this is fast" but that's about it. Otherwise, it feels dog slow because of all the bloat/crud/haywire background tasks/ads/bugs.
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@khm also, this is not a joke suggestion: see if you can get your corpo to let you "downgrade" to macOS 15 or 14. (I think your hardware supports it?) It's still got a bunch of bloat/slowness but at least the UI isn't as crazy fucked up.
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@khm unless you don't care, which is a reasonable position to take for some issued laptop, since it's kind of their problem if it sucks and slows you down.
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this is extremely sobering news, since the machine is currently running MacOS 15, and constantly harasses me to upgrade

I will not, since fucking up the computer requires me to ship it across the country for work to reimage, but now I dread the coming Change
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@khm that's a pretty incredible unplanned punchline