My Mac (Pro) has become v slow. What solutions have you guys tried, if it had happened to you as well.

Moved away from Chrome

Replaced docker for mac with docker-machine

@many-intern-37109 I would highly recommend doing a clean install. I just recently cleaned my machine after 2 years -- clean install and it made a huge difference in speed + battery life.

@loud-glass-33663 is there any good guide on how to clean install a mac?

@kind-france-68039 I read a few articles actually. But best practices are: Assuming intel based mac: 1. Backup all the stuff you need to a separate HDD or partition. 2. Shutdown the mac 3. Restart the mac and hit CMD + R and keep pressing it till it starts in recovery mode. 4. Clean and delete the Mac partition from the Disk Utility (APFS format) 5. Go back and start installation of OSX on the freshly cleaned drive. It will download the entire OS (4-5 GB from the internet). So make sure you are on solid Wifi or better still, connected to Ethernet. That is all there is. It takes an 1 - 2hr to completely finish this including downloading & installation. (I have a 200 Mbps connection).

Wow thanks! Really helpful. I have another quick question. It clean wipes entire thing so what about the ssh keys and other dot files how did you manage them? for ssh keys did you generate a new one and updated them in your github/gitlab?

Thanks guys! This is really helpful. Thanks @loud-glass-33663 for the detailed answer!!

@kind-france-68039 I usually copy paste all my

.ssh

folders along with all my

.zshrc

,

.oh-my-zsh

config and stuff along with an iTerm2 settings, etc. (if you use any of these). If you use an IDE that you have setup, make sure you export settings, fonts, etc. That took me the longest to recreate because you can never get it just right. And once you clean install > install all this back (iTerm, ohmyzsh, etc) and then copy-paste the stuff back in. You may need to change permissions of your files in

.ssh

to be able to function correctly (especially with git and stuff).

Awesome, thanks!

I've set up https://github.com/sidharthv96/dotfiles to manage all the configs, applications etc.

for vscode , this setting sync is very handy https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/settings-sync