I nearly bricked my MacBook with Sonoma, which is on me for running a beta. But, why the heck does it take an hour and a half to install MacOS? I did a Windows install the other day that took 20 minutes. I’m running an M1 Pro.

  • Behohippy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m not sure either, Win 10/11 are pretty quick to get going and Ubuntu is not much longer than that. If I have to hard reset the mbp for work, it’s a nice block of slacker time :)

  • Jumper775@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Apples servers for delivering macOS versions are really slow for no good reason. On top of that the way they install it is really slow because of how shit the algorithm for setting up SIP is. MacOS regularly takes 2+ hours to install on my desktop, where fedora, Ubuntu, even arch take less than 20. Even windows is significantly faster and it is known for having a shitty installer. Apple just needs to do better.

  • anony_mouse99@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t remember how long it takes anymore, but I presume you did it as an Internet rescue/reinstall.

    That takes a while since they have to download the entire macOS image as well as create the bootable image.

    On the other hand Windows may install quickly but you’ll be going through endless reboots to upgrade to the latest patches.