Subj : Re: macOS 26
To   : Nightfox
From : apam
Date : Tue Sep 23 2025 01:25:06

 > Interesting..  Also, at least for Windows, I've seen a lot of software
 > that isn't open-source but is freeware or shareware that you can just
 > download and use.  Is there a lot of such freeware for Mac?  And I
 > imagine that would have the same trouble as open-source, especially
 > since freeware developers wouldn't be making money from it.  Or maybe

Yeah, there's a bit of freeware / shareware for mac os, not as much as on
windows, but I'd say thats more to do with the market share than
anything. Some things, notably Strawberry (a fork of clementine music
player) their mac os and windows builds are behind patreon, apparently
this was because it cost money to sign the app, but i paid the patreon,
downloaded the build.. and it was not signed.

Still, for those who use a lot of opensource stuff, I would say they
would be resonably tech savvy, so all you need to do when you want to
allow a non signed app to run on your mac is go into privacy and security
in settings and click "Run anyway" and then enter your password. Then
it's marked as allowed and you can run it as normal - at least until you
update it.

 > Yeah, that's another thing, I wouldn't mind seeing Mac OS be available
 > for any computer, but I understand why Apple wants to limit it for
 > their own hardware. 

It was for a breif period, but that was in the power pc days. But yeah,
they like to control everything - I remember some mac clones, i forget
the name though.

 > which I enjoy.  I've considered switching away from Windows though, and
 > I'd probably to with Linux Mint - That's a UNIX-like base, and it runs
 > on any PC. 

It is, I was running debian before I bought my mac, it runs ok. I have
been running linux off and on since about 98 or 99. I remember installing
slackware from floppy disks haha. Linux these days I think has lost
something for me, I'm not sure what, but it seems to be going in
directions I don't particularly like, and seems to be less stable than
before - likely due to the distros I use, but everything seems to have
it's own issues. Last one was firefox continually crashing on debian.

I'm using FreeBSD at present, and that has been great.

Andrew

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