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I'm not a macOS user but from what I'm reading, it seems Apple turned something akin to SELinux on by default but let users define the policies on the fly. I r

I'm not a macOS user but from what I'm reading, it seems Apple turned something akin to SELinux on by default but let users define the policies on the fly. I remember a lot of headaches with SELinux on Fedora desktops years ago. It was not fun but I could always disable that if I didn't feel like fixing the policies myself. Lately, things barely pop up.

cerberusss 7y ago
In my opinion, it's way less troublesome than the SELinux introduction back then. If you start an app, you get a one time popup when it tries to access something important. Like the Documents, Downloads or Pictures folder, or the folder where Contacts are kept. That's all. The author happens to be running a number of utilities in the background. For instance "Alfred", which is a replacement for the built-in Spotlight search tool. Of course, being a search tool, Alfred wants to know everything and generates a number of popups. He runs a terminal and perhaps does a "find ~ -name blah" which also generates a number of popups. It's not fair for the author to stick the "broken" label on there. It's just that the author encountered a number of other things, and they add up in annoyance for him. Not for me, by the way. Catalina runs fine.