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This, a million times. Now that Mojave is starting to get dropped, Linux is exactly what the doctor ordered for me. I feel a lot safer in a system where I can check the locks instead of being told "the door's closed, you're fine."
Make no mistake, there are back doors into Linux as well.
Sounds good but a problem with Apple's latest releases are that a lot of its security features listen only to Apple and not to the user. This doesn't concern most of the improvements mentioned in the article, those are purely technical improvements at a very low level. But the signed system volume for example (also mentioned), while a good idea, lacks a convenient way for the user to make changes to it. I'm not very…
> signed system volume for example (also mentioned), while a good idea, lacks a convenient way for the user to make changes to it. MacOS has no convenient way to know if changes are made by the user or malware. It is a feature, not a bug, for most users. Why would you need to change system volume anyway?
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You get that. And about a million tradeoffs in terms of usability. No thanks. Edit: To those downvoting. If you genueinly think running linux isn't a UIUX downgrade on macOS you are totally deluded. Its more open. Cool. It's also a UX nightmare.
For a new job I've switched to 100% Ubuntu from Windows and I'm not missing much.. What would you be giving up?
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Make no mistake, there are back doors into Linux as well.
Back doors in the Linux kernel source code? No. Back doors in GNU/Linux distribution repositories? Maybe.
The security improvement I want is that when I run ‘ps ax’ on a fresh install, I have reduced attack surface instead of dozens of random daemons hardwired into launchd like the one for classrooms(??), iCloud and photo sharing even when those features are disabled, etc.
This is a big issue - on Windows you can set services to not start up unless they are needed, and you can turn them off so they don't run at all. On macOS, the launchd configuration seems to be hard-wired and protected by SIP; there's no easy way to disable random daemons for features like remote student device management - something that most users would not need or want. And as you note even if you disable the asso…
This and many other daemons related to photos is very annoying. I have my photos stored on an external drive because the internal SSD isn’t large enough for that, and it’s a nightmare every time trying to eject the external drive. Even when nothing has changed in the photos library, these daemons will be busy scrubbing the disk and keeping it busy for hours or days. The only solution is to find each process (per user) and kill them.
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On the other hand, Linux is getting better and better. And with the prevalence of web apps, the main obstacle to running non (MS | Apple) systems is getting smaller. With Linux, you can adjust the level of security you need and you keep the key. Security improvements appear also in BSDs, especially OpenBSD, but honestly I wouldn't recommend people used to macOS to switch to OpenBSD (yet).
You get that. And about a million tradeoffs in terms of usability. No thanks. Edit: To those downvoting. If you genueinly think running linux isn't a UIUX downgrade on macOS you are totally deluded. Its more open. Cool. It's also a UX nightmare.
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On the other hand, Linux is getting better and better. And with the prevalence of web apps, the main obstacle to running non (MS | Apple) systems is getting smaller. With Linux, you can adjust the level of security you need and you keep the key. Security improvements appear also in BSDs, especially OpenBSD, but honestly I wouldn't recommend people used to macOS to switch to OpenBSD (yet).
It's the year of the Linux desktop!
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You get that. And about a million tradeoffs in terms of usability. No thanks. Edit: To those downvoting. If you genueinly think running linux isn't a UIUX downgrade on macOS you are totally deluded. Its more open. Cool. It's also a UX nightmare.
Nah. It's great. You can view hidden files in the file manager without memorizing a keyboard shortcut or terminal command. Most Window managers don't rely on track pad gestures and so the mouse feels like a first class citizen. Window management in the big DEs is better than macOS. MacOS is a frustrating mess to me.
"keyboard shortcut": Command-Shift-period
"terminal command": defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes
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This is a big issue - on Windows you can set services to not start up unless they are needed, and you can turn them off so they don't run at all. On macOS, the launchd configuration seems to be hard-wired and protected by SIP; there's no easy way to disable random daemons for features like remote student device management - something that most users would not need or want. And as you note even if you disable the asso…
photoanalysisd Does anyone else wonder what exactly it is analysing now, after the whole CSAM thing came to light?
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Back doors in the Linux kernel source code? No. Back doors in GNU/Linux distribution repositories? Maybe.
You don't think, with all the resources available to them, the intelligence community would spend just about whatever it took to sneak a vulnerability or two into the most-run piece of code on the planet? The core devs don't even have to be corrupted--there are 28 million lines of code in the kernel, you don't think a motivated adversary could sneak something past the gate keepers?