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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by vlozko on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:12PM (#26169545)
Is it a regression, though? In the days of Windows, malware was rampant. There was no sense of sandboxing so installs could get deeply embedded and hard to purge. There was certainly the uncertainty of the validity of software when downloaded.

This is not to suggest we should remove this capability from macOS/Windows but I wouldn’t call it a regression.

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Re:Epic Games steps up Apple fight with EU antitrust complaint by paulgb on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:27PM (#26169727)
That’s a good point, but I feel like modern Mac desktop computing hits the right balance: users can opt to install only from the App store with a high degree of confidence, but power-users can use Homebrew without restriction.
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