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[-] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Option click is still possible, it just works slightly differently. I literally did it yesterday on my Sequoia work system.

use a different desktop environment

Fair, I think this is one of the worst parts of the Linux “ecosystem”, as it completely fucks anyone that doesn’t know to use whatever the “current hotness” is, but I understand a lot of people like it.

uninstall OS components…

Like what? You mean like running without a login screen or do you mean uninstalling something like systemd?

be absolutely certain…

You can do that with plenty of network scanning apps, and you shouldn’t be doing that on device anyway. Not sure how Linux would stop that when you could install a bad package, or run apt update on something that has had a supply chain vulnerability.

run 32 bit apps

Fair. I haven’t needed this since about two months after Apple made the change, because Apple sure does a good job of getting developers to update their code, but I’m sure there are still some apps people wish worked that never updated.

play video games

Yeah video games on Mac are terrible, no argument there. Literally the only reason I still have a windows computer. Soon as they force 11, I’m switching back to a Linux desktop, but honestly I’m not looking forward to it.

take my laptop

You can do that now and you could before, Apple just didn’t like it and they made it as hard as possible. I agree it’s a shit policy, but I’m mostly asking about the operating system here. For example you could be running a hackintosh.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can do that with plenty of network scanning apps, and you shouldn’t be doing that on device anyway. Not sure how Linux would stop that when you could install a bad package, or run apt update on something that has had a supply chain vulnerability.

If you're willing to consider supply chain vulnerabilities when considering whether someone is spying on you, who's to say there's not a supply chain attack against Wireshark that hides the malicious traffic?

For example you could be running a hackintosh.

Aren't hackintoshes virtually dead with the latest release of MacOS?

Soon as they force 11, I’m switching back to a Linux desktop, but honestly I’m not looking forward to it.

I don't know when you last used Linux, but I can virtually guarantee that the new user experience is better than you remember it being. The last time I had a driver issue with anything apart from my graphics card (and that was easily resolved) was roughly ten years ago. As for the new user experience and just getting everything set up without using the terminal, confessedly, I'm an Arch user, so I'm a bit out of touch with the newbie side of the Linux distro world, but from what I've heard, Bazzite makes the transition fairly painless.

[-] mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a pleb, barely literate in computers, just pretty okay at finding things I need on Google and blindly copying commands. Like I'm obviously extremely tech literate by the standards of the wider world solely by virtue of having a home server that runs things I use, but it's still using unraid because I'm an idiot who needs a helpful community space and forum so I can search how to fix problems confident that other idiots have also broken the thing the same way I did and I will find step by step directions on how to unfuck it

All that said, when it came time for my roughly annual reinstall of Windows just to clear house, they threw up an ad for Windows 11 and it pissed me off so bad I googled "gaming Linux", made a bootable USB of Garuda (I like the bird logo and didn't know what "Arch-based" meant except that it would make me a superior human) and within 15 minutes of getting mad I was installing, and it's just worked out of the box since

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm a pleb, barely literate in computers, just pretty okay at finding things I need on Google and blindly copying commands

I think that's enough for most of things, really. I'm supposed to be a power user, but I just do the same: google whenever I need to do something

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