Maybe 10-20 years ago. Today macs are great machines, especially for the price.

Unintuitive locked down garbage that can't do anything a PC can't do for half the price.

From the user perspective, enterprise managed Windows is locked down, too, and somehow less reliable.

Most of the software engineers I know in FAANG and similar tier companies use Macbooks to program. Poke around a coffee shop in the bay area during a weekday and look around.

And personally, I switched to Mac about 15 years ago mainly because dependency management and the shell made more sense to me coming from Linux. Windows has always been trash, and most other non-Apple OEMs make the actual physical laptop experience worse (hinges, behavior on closing the lid, trackpad behavior and size, power management, display quality in both brightness and pixel density, webcam/audio behavior).

Well that script was ran on enough other computers, so the magic algorithm decided if everyone else ran it, it must be fine.

What language was it written in? I read that Microsoft Defender likes to flag the baked-in runtime of some languages as malware because they commonly shows up in actual nalware.

The script was from a verified source.

Nah I use both pretty regularly and I'm fairly sure macOS still makes you do the "nope sorry, press ok, go into system settings, security panel, become admin and click trust this unknown publisher" thing

Windows still just does the same safescreen thing they've been doing for ages now: "windows stopped this unknown thing from running, wanna run it anyway?"

This meme might be referring to the RedSun zero-day, currently unpatched in Win10 & Win11, where detected malicious SW gets installed to the system folder for you by defender.

I tried running it on your_mom and it threw up an error: "No space left on disk."

I'm going to mount your_mom on my /

you are being protected, please don't resist.

That's kind of dated. All the times I've done this recently it's gone seconds after I screwed up.

Linux experience:

What really is a virus? Software is software, bro 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, but no free ones.

Me: "Do the thing."

OS: "no."

Me: "Fuck you. Sudo do the thing."

OS: "yes sir. Right away sir."

That is the way it should be.

You can run what ever you want, it doesn’t stop you outright, it just asks you a bunch of times and makes you jump through some hoops if the program isn’t from a verified source. It’s annoying for someone who knows what they’re doing, but arguably a good backstop to keep someone clueless from running something hostile. It’s a complicated enough process that someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing won’t be able to run it.

Arguably it’s overkill and them trying to force users to stay in their closed “verified” garden, but it’s not totally unjustified.

Apple blocks even apps that they define as "too old".

Like every new version of Macintosh forces every developer to scramble and update their app even though nothing needs to change just so Apple doesn't block them.

You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.

Shh, don’t stop them when they’re acting superior