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When pressing the power button makes you powerless (lemmy.world)
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[–] maccentric@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Good info, thanks.

Any idea why it takes so long to install the OS from a fast USB drive (around 45 minutes)? The same drive installs win10 in under 5 minutes.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Good question. Honestly I’m not sure. Windows installs wipe an NTFS partition and then dump the filesystem there, bootloader is installed and OS boots, job done. My only guess would be that the Mac installer individually hashes every file for security and verifies on write. While ensuring a perfect install and secure OS, it also leads to wildly long install times.