TIL something new… My hate for MacOS took over common logic. 2.8GB, 3 seconds file transfer on USB was to beautiful to be true. After some further investigation and hints from @[email protected] @[email protected] I learned that Linux writes to cache before writing it to the device, to see whats happening in the background: sync & watch -n 1 grep -e Dirty: /proc/meminfo.
Still, the transfer speed on Linux was slightly faster than on MacOS. My rant was unjustified, It just my fault for being clueless on some more advanced Linux stuff. But I learned something new today, so this post was actually helpful !
Howerver, I still hate MacOS and will probably give Asahi remix a try.
Thanks to everyone !
Hey guys ! I’m getting tired/bored of MacOS’ shenanigans… Yesterday was the last drop that make me think of trying an alternative.
While trying to upload a 2.8 GB file over to an USB-C stick it took like 8 minutes? Okay that’s “good” enough if you only do it from time to time… But 25 files takes literally 1h30min… Are we in 2001?
I mean the exact same 2.8GB file, with the exact same USB-C stick took FU***** 3 seconds on Linux !!
Ohh and don’t think I didn’t tried to “fix” the issue, after a long search on the web I came across a lot of people having similar issues that aren’t fixed since 2 major updates? With a total radio silence from the shiny poisonous Apple…
Among other things I tried:
- Disable Spotlight indexing
sudo mdutil -a -i off - Reformat the USB stick from Mac
- All available filesystem FAT32, exFAT…(yes even MacOS native
APFS) - Another USB stick
- …
Enough is enough. I was willing to learn their way of thinking for my personal experience and somehow always got my way around to reproduce what I learned on Linux to Mac. But now that there is an alternative OS, I think I’m ready to get back home.
So does anyone here already gave Asahi Remix a try? If so what was your experience with it?
I read their FAQ and most of their documentation and it seems good enough for daily drive (except for some quirks here and there) but I wanted to hear from people who already made the jump and how was their personal feeling.
PS: I got that MacOS for my birthday from a family member with good intentions. That wasn’t a personal choice. While I’m more than happy and thankful for the gift, I totally hate it more and more… Especially because MOST of my self-hosted services, applications, scripts, are open source.
Eww. I ran into similar trying to build a meson app on Asahi. Fuck that. Since the point of the Fedora-Asahi partnership is to have a max of stuff upstream, I guess it leaves you with whatever fedora is shipping - which may not be good enough for you.
Again, depends in your use case; since the horrible business of having a full ffmpeg on one machine is done, you can use any sync software between them & not care further. I use syncthing to keep my mastering device (mbp 14, Asahi) in sync with a playback machine and a backup machine.
But it is my use case: I use different, dedicated devices for dedicated tasks as to spread out wear, risks and improve redundancy in case of failure.
@reallyzen Since I built the computer, I’m not too worried about hardware failures, I am competent in repairing them.
So you own a perfect mastering device at home, now you get the ultrathin laptop to wander about. One isn’t so portable, and the other may not be able to hardware-encode AV1 files. It only matters if it can play them decently.
Also, the M chips are good, but not that good. My M2 pro is about like a 12th gen i7, not like thrice quicker in any everyday way.