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smspillaz
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The OSX Sierra update was like 10GB and took 75 minutes + two restarts to install which is bizarre because I can install Ubuntu in like 3 minutes.

Though I think it spent most of its time iterating every.single.god.damned.thing in /usr/local decided whether it needed to be moved out of the way

They don’t even give you a log of what’s going on now - just a progress bar.

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  • 1
    8y
    I'm curious as to how it performs. I have a MacBook Pro Mid-2012 and when I installed the pre-release, my fans were running on 100% constantly and still my laptop was overheating. This was doing nothing, immediately after boot. I eventually just formatted and reinstalled El Capitan.

    Can you give some feedback from the new release?
  • 8
    8y
    Wait until you switch to Windows and try to get an Anniversary update. :3
  • 7
    8y
    Installing ubuntu might take 3 minutes but distro upgrading will take a lot longer and probably fucks up your machine. Just saying 😀
  • 2
    8y
    @cahva Amen.
  • 0
    8y
    @masterakay not sure what all the fuss is about tbh. On my oldish laptop everything went fine.
  • 0
    8y
    On my mf839 its just 40 minutes, on my friend's md101 almost the same
  • 0
    8y
    I did a distro update after many years (as in, I clean install otherwise) and things have really improved in Ubuntu land
  • 1
    8y
    Tried to distro upgrade on a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu MATE.

    Had to restore from backup.
  • 2
    8y
    @cahva I like the "probably will fuck up your machine" lol

    That actually happens with Ubuntu
  • 1
    8y
    Sierra is running fine on my 2011 mbp. I have updated the ram, but it seems the battery life reduced a bit from el captain. I did not take measurements to confirm it though.
  • 1
    8y
    @alandemaria Awesome, thanks. I've also recently installed more ram and an SSD so hopefully it'll run smoothly this time around.
  • 1
    8y
    @nickcorin I have the exact same machine, Sierra installed great for me, no problems. I do have an SSD though.
  • 1
    8y
    @sm1th I just recently installed an SSD too, and upgraded the RAM. It's very likely that it was a buggy release for slightly older machines. Thanks for the feedback!
  • 0
    8y
    @nickcorin rMBP late 2013. Its abiut as good as Yosemite. Lots of things are turning on the dGPU though so I've found that I have had to be more vigilant about disabling it when I'm on battery.
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