[mattbillenstein]

I know the Mac hardware is pretty trick, but man, I do most of my dev on Linux and have a Framework Laptop (AMD) running Ubuntu; it's just really nice for dev stuff to work the same way it does on our production environment...

Also, the frequency and size and time to install MacOS updates - like these computers are blazingly fast from the cpus to the SSDs - after an update has downloaded, what could it possibly be doing that takes 30+ minutes to install? I've never had to wait for an apt-get upgrade that long.

[thewebguyd]

Always wondered the same, re: updates. To be fair, macOS I believe is downloading an entire OS image each time. macOS is immutable root, like Fedora Silverblue, so OS updates download the entire OS image each time.

On a package-based system you're doing a diff update, essentially.

Then again, even Fedora Silverblue image updates don't take nearly as long as macOS.

At least both are better than Windows, god knows what's going on in Microsoft's update process.

[mattbillenstein]

Yeah, but the SSDs today can write something like 2GB/s, so even if you're re-writing the entire OS, you should be able to do that in what? 1 minute max?

Assuming they're using some fast parallel compression algo as well when unpacking it...

[saagarjha]

No, they’re using slow parallel compression.