[rangibaby]

Yes it’s a really poor design decision. They could have at least added “local time machine backups” color to Disk Utility, or added a way to turn them off.

Agreed re: snappiness of other OS. Ubuntu flies on my 2013 MBP.

[wila]

There used to be a way to turn in off before High Sierra, now the only thing you can do is delete the local snapshots. [0]

[0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/solution-reclaim-storag...