macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by fergie on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:42AM (#15807103)

There are probably a lot of people like me on HN who _need_ a unix box to do their work, and the various Macs are still far and away the best general purpose unix boxes available (best chassis, best peripheral compatibility, best (o|O)ffice software compatibility).

Now that Google Docs and Office 365 are "good enough" for most things, I would probably be happy to go back to Linux if there was a Linux machine that had comparable build quality yet was a bit cheaper than a Mac.

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by acidburnNSA on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:52AM (#15807177)

Dell XPS 15 on Linux is pretty glorious you guys. My 2011 version is still kicking amazingly well with a 1TB SSD, and the newer models are way sleek. I also have a 2013 Sony vaio with dual boot linix/windows. Haven't booted to windows for anything but updating it for years.

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Re:macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty ... by paprikka on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @09:46AM (#15807136)

Can't agree more. The main thing that keeps me using OSX is Adobe Creative Cloud.

I'd mention aesthetics, but the current Linux distros look quite good, plus they're customisable.

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