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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 @JonnyRobbie@lemmy.world @nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 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:
sudo mdutil -a -i offAPFS)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.
I mean the exact same 2.8GB file, with the exact same USB-C stick took FU***** 3 seconds on Linux !!
For that test you should run sync afterwards to make sure the file was really written and is not waiting in a cache.
The current implementation only supports USB 2.0 I believe. Apple doesn't have any docs on the hardware so it is all done with clean room reverse engineering.
If you want stable reliable Linux don't use Apple hardware
Well, I’ve been using it as my daily driver for the past year and it has been fun. I’ve watched support gradually increase for the hardware, with it now having support for speakers webcam and Vulcan!
It runs great (am on KDE) although of late I’ve been having some graphical glitches on flatlpacks.
Also of note, the battery life is worse (a “mere” 10 hours on a 13” M1 MacBook Pro) but still perfectly acceptable (depending on your use case)
Hey :) Thanks for the pointer. This was to beautiful to be true ! I searched around the web and found out what is actually happening in the background (learned something new and important so thank you!). And effectively It was writing to the cache and I wasn't aware that was a thing on Linux.
The command I used to track it down: sync & watch -n 1 grep -e Dirty: /proc/meminfo. Took me some time to come across the right command and realize what's happening.
Will update my post right way (BTW is still hate MacOS !)
Ultra-specific: soundtracks for theatre plays. I'm happy with the available vst's, but I am not a musician, I don't play instruments - I record people or I rip stuff & work from there. That said it means multi-band comps, tube-like preamps, parametric eqs, de-essers, echo/delays etc... It's OK really.
Maybe all this is a bit like photoshop vs gimp: I mostly only ever used Ardour since forever and I cannot compare / suffer / get my workflow irremediably blocked because it doesn't work for me like I expect it to.
Ardour is really a powerhouse now, and with the Pipewire audio stack, switching inputs or monitoring in every which way is just a breeze.
There's tons of Linux musicians advice out there, including on, ahem, reddit. Yeah I know.
Now that we have Steam on Asahi my macos partition gonna get shrinked to minimal functional lol.
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