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> I'll switch to another platform What makes me sad is there is nowhere to switch to seamlessly. The writing has been on the wall since gatekeeper was introdu
by hrktb 6y ago
> I'll switch to another platform
What makes me sad is there is nowhere to switch to seamlessly.
The writing has been on the wall since gatekeeper was introduced, but we stayed because there is just no better option. Some options are viable, but require sacrificing a decent chunk of the comfort we have now. It's the eternal waiting for the "year of desktop linux" except we moved the goalpost to laptop linux, battery performance, commercial third party support etc.
The funny thing being that people who didn't have these frictions already switched and will say "just do it, it's easy". But we won't have a choice anyway.
- ubermonkey 6y agoI still really don't understand why people get SO ANGRY about Gatekeeper. It's an excellent idea! Enforcing signed binaries by default is the correction option on a consumer OS. It's saved many, many folks many, many hours of hassle in fixing Aunt Millie's computer at Thanksgiving. And people like you and me can turn it off. It's not at all clear that Apple will remove the ability to run unsigned binaries. As of now, it's FUD. That's all. And, moreover, it's mostly FUD in places like this from people who hate Apple anyway.
- hrktb 6y agoMost people (me included) are ok on the principle, and I actually don’t disable it. I want more security. Issues are on the implementation, with for instance the network calls on every command run if for any reason the CLI is not whitelisted. Also I am not against iOS either, I just need an alternative for the tools that don’t fit the model, and that role is currently filled by macos. The more macos is iOSified, the less it fills that role.
- ubermonkey 6y agoI guess that's the thing I find weird, because I don't see anything about MacOS becoming "iOS-ified" at all. I mean, sure, it might happen. But hasn't happened yet.