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Re: Broken

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Post by matwood »

_bxg1 wrote: post #98

To throw my own (admittedly niche) Catalina anecdote into the mix: In El Capitan, Apple introduced something called System Integrity Protection (SIP). This is a security layer that prevents you from doing certain things, like modifying system directories, even as root . The idea is that malicious software could gain root permissions and still be unable to do the most egregious stuff. Okay, fine. You can turn it off b…

I can appreciate your problem, but SIP on whole is a good thing along with mounting system directories as read only. It's the only thing that prevented many machines from having to be reinstalled recently.

https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-...

Re: Broken

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Post by _bxg1 »

rtempaccount1 wrote: post #43

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 ru…

I 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.

Re: Broken

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Post by the_pwner224 »

arboghast wrote: post #30
mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

So was I until I switch to a 4k monitor and realize that there's no real, stable, functional fractional scaling on Linux, even less so on XFCE, unfortunately.

KDE has excellent support for fractional scaling, to a single decimal point. It is also a very lightweight and fast desktop environment, but has plenty of useful features.

Re: Broken

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Post by jimnotgym »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #80
putnambr wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't upgraded yet, but I would expect there to be a one-time user flow when upgrading. Walk the user through new features and then bring up a single page with a list of apps that need modified permissions. Let the user select all for 'Allow' and have them type in their password once. Done.

How does the OS know what permissions an app will try to access before it actually makes the attempt?

Because the maker of the OS runs the app store. They could have tested the popular ones?

Re: Broken

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Post by als0 »

dangus wrote: post #99

All the nightmares are nightmares until they're not nightmares. Weird launch day bugs like the I bug on iOS 11 are distant memories. Yeah, these bugs are bad, but to me articles like this really feel a lot like a broken record. Every September and October, when the major releases come out, there are bugs. And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory. If you don't want b…

Couldn't agree more. These updates just aren't compelling. It's been a long time since a newer version had speed improvements. I stayed on Mavericks and El Capitan until support ran out. And I'll be waiting again until all the necessary 32-bit software has been ported.

Re: Broken

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Post by munificent »

dangus wrote: post #99

All the nightmares are nightmares until they're not nightmares. Weird launch day bugs like the I bug on iOS 11 are distant memories. Yeah, these bugs are bad, but to me articles like this really feel a lot like a broken record. Every September and October, when the major releases come out, there are bugs. And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory. If you don't want b…

> And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory.

As are your files. The author states that some of these bugs are causing file corruption.

Re: Broken

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Post by xemoka »

navidkhn1 wrote: post #24

I'm not sure if anyone has seen this yet, but Catalina is letting me login without entering my password! I have two users on my machine. 1. I "lock screen" from the Apple menu and close the lid. 2. I reopen the lid and it does not ask for password. 3. I start using laptop and lock screen suddenly pops up, but asks password for the wrong user. 4. I hit random key and the screen goes away, and i can continue working. A…

Since Mojave, waking my 2012 rMPB results in a flash of desktop and content before showing the lock screen. This sounds similar, if not a continued degradation.

Re: Broken

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Post by shantly »

als0 wrote: post #91
temac wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite having a lower quality than before since a few years, Windows has login and locking features that actually work (and I don't even really remember of bugs in there, like ever), so no, from what you describe it does not feel like Windows at all, it feels like some completely broken crap.

While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears. You can even run programs. Really bizarre and feels like this issue has been present for a while now. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

Yeah, saw this the other day on an Ubuntu machine (running whatever the last release was, not LTS) I have hooked up to a TV. Flash of the desktop for a second or so before the login screen. Speaks to something fundamentally wrong with the way the whole thing works, I figure.

Re: Broken

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Post by dddddaviddddd »

tedunangst wrote: post #105
als0 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears. You can even run programs. Really bizarre and feels like this issue has been present for a while now. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

X locking is notoriously difficult.

I run xlock on suspend rather than on resume, seems more reliable. I'm any case, locking is trivial to bypass by pressing Control-C a few times on resume to kill xorg, hence why I also start X with "startx; exit" so that this drops to the login prompt instead of the shell.

Re: Broken

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Post by als0 »

tedunangst wrote: post #105
als0 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While on the subject, on Linux I've also noticed that Xscreensaver (or GNOME screensaver, can't remember which) sometimes goes straight into the desktop after wakeup for a few seconds before the lock screen prompt actually appears. You can even run programs. Really bizarre and feels like this issue has been present for a while now. Has anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

X locking is notoriously difficult.

I'm interested to understand why. Is it because of the design of Xorg?
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