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macOS has something better: all the settings in one place. Windows used to have something like that too, I think it was called the Control Panel.
by TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
macOS has something better: all the settings in one place.
Windows used to have something like that too, I think it was called the Control Panel.
- bluejekyll 10y agoAnd per user vs. system overrides.
- randallsquared 10y agoNo, it doesn't. Preferences, but also 'defaults write ...', or just edit a plist...
- klodolph 10y agoTechnically correct but very few people care about "defaults write". I can't remember the last time I used it, but I do use RegEdit often enough.
- grzm 10y agoOne place I've found it useful is for scripting the setup of a fresh machine, something like this: https://blog.vandenbrand.org/2016/01/04/how-to-automate-your-mac-os-x-setup-with-ansible/ https://blog.vandenbrand.org/2016/01/04/how-to-automate-your... I agree it's likely very few people use it. It can be exactly the right tool for the job in some circumstances.
- klodolph 10y agoYeah, that's a good reason to use it, and it makes sense that the tool is there. But there's a big difference between having a CLI tool for digging around when you need it, and having two separate GUI control panels with some settings in one, some in the other, and other settings in both.
- m_mueller 10y agoWhich is a thing of beauty compared to windows and linux. Fine grained control, yet all per-user file based and thus can easily be reset to factory.
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- DashRattlesnake 10y ago> macOS has something better: all the settings in one place. All twelve of them.
- TazeTSchnitzel 10y agoI know that's snark, but I just went and counted them anyway. There's at least 413 individual different settings in macOS Sierra's System Preferences, excluding Flash Player.