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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by ceejayoz on Thursday February 16, 2012 @11:57AM (#3599532)
> With Debian and Ubuntu, there is no difficulty installing arbitrary unsigned packages, putting your own binaries on and running them, etc.

Changing a single setting in the Preferences app (once!) is "difficult" now?

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by rmc on Friday February 17, 2012 @07:49AM (#3603091)
Yes.

Defaults matter. Non-technical users don't know about this computer magic.

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Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by ceejayoz on Friday February 17, 2012 @12:32PM (#3604141)
Defaults do indeed matter. I'd say the default they've picked is the right one for anyone who thinks computers are magic.
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