Re:Can you slim macOS down?
by sneak on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:25PM
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Disabling SSV puts your system security on par with any stock linux distro. Most OSes don’t do a cryptographically verified read only root.
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The bigger problem with disabling SSV and making changes to it is entirely practical - any macOS update will overwrite them.
Which can be worked around by writing a provisioning script, but in either case will be a significant headache if one would come to rely on the modifications they were to make to the volume.