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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by munificent on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:37PM (#24842605)
> free alternative

Only "free" in terms of literal monetary payments to acquire the operating system. But the choice between Apple's stack and other Linux stacks has many trade-offs in terms of time, support, documentation, complexity, transition cost, etc.

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Re:Apple's apps bypass firewalls like LittleSnitch and LuLu ... by zepto on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:47PM (#24842682)
Agreed, but that’s not because of an ‘oligopoly’ constraining supply.

The only thing stopping those trade-offs being changed is people’s willingness to make the changes.

Based on a lot of criticism of MacOS I see here, some of that is because people don’t actually want to change the trade offs.

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