I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple

Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by JadeNB on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:04PM (#28322144)

With the increasing convergence of macOS and iOS, we're surely on the way. Already it's true that the app mindset has encouraged a lot of the wonderful free software I loved on the Mac to become paid.

(Which, (1) of course is the creator's right, but I still miss the old mindset, and (2) "why not just keep using the old software?" doesn't work because Apple's commitment to backward compatibility is, umm, not high.)

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by btilly on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:21PM (#28322292)

You seem to have misspelled "nonexistent" at the end there.

Also their moving Big Brother onto the iPhone is a pretty good sign where they are taking all of their systems. No, I don't want my computer spying on me for the sake of my government. Not so much because I think that they will do me wrong, as because it provides a way to target inconvenient people who I don't want targeted. (Think Snowden.)

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Re:I switched from macOS to Linux after 15 years of Apple by zikduruqe on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:52PM (#28322555)

Don’t forget MacOS last year or so, would bypass firewalls and VPNs, and Apple said “oops”. That was probably is a hook that was accidentally exposed.

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