I have a 256gb ssd for the os since windows likes to devour hardrive space for reasons unclear to me, a 2tb ssd for games and other applications I need to move quickly, and a 2tb hdd for general storage. It all works pretty well together.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

macOS is pretty bad about using up storage space. There are always huge 10gb+ cache files for cloud related stuff. Even if I’m like, don’t store it locally.

I’ve not used macOS in years, so many that issue has been resolved.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me of when I used to have an iPhone and needed to free up storage, and there was this cursed mysterious "other data" block that took up like a majority of it.

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

I’m sure it’s the exact same thing happening in both operating systems.

It’s just clouded cache files that need to be cleaned up.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

macOS is pretty bad

Could have just stopped there 🤷

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I still prefer it over windows. If it were not for their absurd pricing, I’d have a MacBook Air over my thinkpad.

I’d much prefer to run Linux, but I’ve yet to find a way to do my main work task on something other than Mac or windows.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Honestly if it weren't for the headache of some software still not ported over to arm 4 years later, Macs would be pretty good for software development since they have a lot of the POSIX tooling.

For the same reason I have windows so that games will "just work," I have Linux so my programming setup will "just work." Low level languages like C/C++ are so much easier to work with on Linux.