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I would disagree, GNU/Linux has less of a malware problem than OSX and at the end of the day they all run browsers which have their own issues. There's also a
by swiley 6y ago
I would disagree, GNU/Linux has less of a malware problem than OSX and at the end of the day they all run browsers which have their own issues.
There's also a serious cost to the walled gardens. These things eliminate community maintained software which results in everything on your computer being controlled by a profit (often marketing) driven corporation. These always eventually die (taking your data with them) or abuse their special position of power.
- coldtea 6y ago>There's also a serious cost to the walled gardens. These things eliminate community maintained software So, what's Homebrew, MacPorts, or the tons of Mac-native foss UI apps?
- swiley 6y agoHomebrew at least is outside the walled garden. There's no way a source based package manager would ever make it onto an Apple run app store.
- zepto 6y agoCommunity maintained software seems to be dying without anything Apple is doing because people can’t afford to maintain it.