macOs Debloating thread

[dairymilkbatman]

At last! So happy to see this thread. So happy to have a disussion on this topic without 'why, do you want to do that?' BS...

Have you guys got a stable OS after the pruning? ie., is all the 'leave-it-alone' BS just scareware because they lack the skills then?
I ask because I have a macbook for asahi linux but I upgraded to an m4 pro and didn't realize asahi isn't available for M4 yet, do'h! Being from the arch world, these things are super bloated to me. Happy to tear through the OS and prune however, the macbook -unlike my linux machines- is for dev work whilst traveling so needs to be stable 😀

 

[Minghold]

I already have done a lot of research myself on the topic - both space on the drive and service disabling stuff in a script i made myself, and i find it strange that there is not a place to discuss this topic anywhere. .... I am willing to write all my findings, just wanted to know if i missed some thread before starting it.

Yes, please.

 

[Minghold]

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[Minghold]

Pictured is a typical "cheap" intel-era Macbook Air with 4/121 base-model specs running Mojave in which I've perma-disabled MRT, MDS_stores, Spotlight Indexing, Reportcrash, Notifications, and System Update, and all Adobe & MS gunk is trashed out of the Library/Launch folders. Not logged into iCloud, and nothing has been running since startup except Activity Monitor and System Preferences. Only three small non-Apple widgets are auto-launched: Himmelbar, MacsFanControl, and MainMenu. I clicked Activity Monitor (its icon is on my Dock) as soon as the desktop was visible, and ram usage read 1.45gb, then slowly increased to a stable 1.95, which is still a lot more than I'd like.

What can be be carved off or disabled to get Mojave down to El Capitan levels of trim? (This is a laptop, so disabling wifi or dark-mode are off the table. And, while I have no use for iCloud, I don't want it to be completely inaccessible.)

 

[bogdanw]

Here is a list of services that can be disabled in Catalina https://gist.github.com/b0gdanw/b6fe449407465ddd6f2a657d71e1345c
It may contain some that are not present in Mojave.