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.
Huh. I’ve tried the Ardour and stuff way for a while. I’m curious what kind of stuff you’re producing. I tried for a while, but IME the good effects, and ESPECIALLY virtual instruments, were very few and far between. This and VR gaming are the two things I still have a Windows machine for.
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.
Ardour is indeed pretty good. I’m a Reaper guy, which is incidentally available on Linux as well nowadays, so on the DAW and audio interface front, I’m all covered. If anything, my older 2i4 runs slightly more stable over Linux/Pipewire than it does on Windows with the official driver. I’m more on the composition/production side of things (amateur, although I do have a very small amount of professional experience), it’s mostly the amp sim and virtual instruments landscapes that left me on my appetite a bit last time I tried. There just weren’t many option and they all frankly sounded like crap. Maybe that got better since then, I don’t know hehe.
@folkrav @reallyzen For that application you might want to try a real time or at least low latency kernel. Even the low latency kernel will generally manage a latency of <1ms which for most audio is sufficient. It is working well enough for me at least.