Subj : Re: macOS 26
To   : apam
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 25 2025 07:57 am

On 23 Sep 2025 at 01:25a, apam pondered and said...
 
 ap> Still, for those who use a lot of opensource stuff, I would say they
 ap> would be resonably tech savvy, so all you need to do when you want to
 ap> allow a non signed app to run on your mac is go into privacy and security
 ap> in settings and click "Run anyway" and then enter your password. Then
 ap> it's marked as allowed and you can run it as normal - at least until you
 ap> update it.

That is sort of annoying.  For a lot of the command-line-y type stuff
I run, homebrew does me well, however, without all the hassle.

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

People also got macOS to book on off-brand x86 hardware when Apple
was still Intel Inside(TM).  I never bothered.

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

Linux is ... ok.  It's got a huge amount of mind share behind it, but
I don't think it's all that great.  The kernel is complex and bloated,
and while some parts of it are very, very good, other parts of just
plain bad.  The overall experience of using it gives the impression
that it works best on the developers' laptops.

FreeBSD is ok, but similarly too bloated for my tastes.  OpenBSD
probably the closest experience to using 4.xBSD on a timesharing
machine back in the day, but always seems to lag behind in terms
of hardware and third-party software support.

I still use a Mac as my workstation.  It just works.

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