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It's interesting to see this from a MacOS release and the security complaints are similar to what's been seen about recent versions of Windows. To me, both are
by rtempaccount1 7y ago
It's interesting to see this from a MacOS release and the security complaints are similar to what's been seen about recent versions of Windows.
To me, both are a manifestation of the idea that these two Operating Systems are moving in the direction of being safer for "ordinary users" at the expense of annoying more technical users who want to do less common things which can be dangerous if you're not careful (like running software as root)
Given that "ordinary users" outnumber technical ones, I guess that makes commercial sense...
As a result of that, I prefer working with Linux where possible as (generally) it lets you do what you want, even if that's really dumb/dangerous. If I say `kill -9 x` or I sudo to root and do `rm -rf .` by accident it's on me.
- Kenji 7y agoFrankly, I find it much more dangerous if e.g. OneDrive deletes my desktop randomly or if MacOS doesn't let me log in. Stuff like `rm -rf folder` I still have to type myself, at least.
- _bxg1 7y agoI take solace in that fact that by definition there will always be developers - increasingly, even. And therefore there will alway be a market for making computers for developers. Apple seems to be dropping the ball on that lately, which is a shame because they had such a lead. But Microsoft is racing to fill the gap with things like WSL and the skyrocketing build quality of high-end Windows laptops.
- Seirdy 7y agoSafety on Linux is arguably better; with sandboxing utilities like SELinux, AppArmor, bubblewrap and Flatpak, as well as being the platform receiving the most containerization efforts (Docker, Podman, LXC), Linux is arguably more secure. This is especially true if you use an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue, where everything is sandboxed or containerized by default.