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The problems with permissions dialogs are overblown in my experience. You get hit with a flurry at least initial boot up after upgrading because desktop applica
by kitsunesoba 7y ago
The problems with permissions dialogs are overblown in my experience. You get hit with a flurry at least initial boot up after upgrading because desktop applications don’t know how to behave themselves in a sandboxed environment and just reach for whatever they please, but after that initial burst they’re quite rare.
With how Apple has been gradually weaning third party devs from having extensive/root access it’s nowhere near as annoying as UAC was.
- jeroenhd 7y agoI don't think UAC was tbat annoying to be honest. Where it asked for confirmation and admin privileges, it made sense. Most UAC buttons were labeled and from a security standpoint, it was quite a solid experience. Last time I used Apple, it felt like a flashback to Vista to me. Prompts for every program I downloaded, leaving me to keep the system security settings open for the first hour or so to download appropriate installers and password prompts every time I went to change a setting. Like in vista, the places it asks for admin permissions usually make sense, but the contrast was quite stark compared to the Windows and Ubuntu dialog flow I was used to. I found the "the system prevented you from opening this program" dialogs reminiscent of the super-criticised SmartScreen dialogs that block(ed?) Windows 8+ programs from unknown sources.