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Comment by qmr

3 months ago

I can't stand the stupid dance required to run a third party app every single time.

Get the fuck out of my way and let me use what is supposedly my computer.

They become more shitware and Microsoft like with every update.

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jwitthuhn  3 months ago

Worst part about this is that these days the error message simply lies to the user. "Whatever.App is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash."

If you remove the 'quarantine' attribute that gets added to downloaded files it runs great.

jrmann100  3 months ago

This doesn't really address your concern, but I feel obligated to share the Gatekeeper bypasses I know about:

Homebrew has an option which bypasses Gatekeeper when installing apps:

  brew install --cask app --no-quarantine

And apparently you can have this on by default:

  export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--no-quarantine"

And I have this alias for everything else:

  alias unq="xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine"

NaomiLehman  3 months ago

That's true, but macOS is still further from the current equivalent of Windows than it ever was.

  • qmr  3 months ago

    Yes, Windows 11 is horrendous.

    Years and years ago, I fought the good fight, full desktop Linux fulltime.

    I see and hear from a lot of people it's pretty great these days though, and you can do whatever the new cool fork of WINE is or a VM for games / software compatibility.

    Definitely not moving to 11. When 10 gets painful enough I'll probably try Devuan or Arch or something for desktop use.

    • aryonoco  3 months ago

      I used Linux exclusively from 1999 to 2012. I gave up in 2012 and switch to Mac.

      I’ve just switched back to Linux, and I can confirm. It’s different, it’s very different. And it’s very good. I realised how much I’ve just been fighting Apple everyday in newer versions of Mac.

      I was going to ask my boss for a new MacBook Pro soon but now I’m having second thoughts.

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badc0ffee  3 months ago

You can disable SIP if you don't like it.

  • Klonoar  3 months ago

    I'm the first to tell people they can disable SIP, but it's not something that everyone should do.

    i.e, blanket disabling of SIP will interfere with conveniences like Apple Pay, etc. People want those conveniences. Disabling SIP is a trade-off.