Catalina is checking notarization of unsigned executables

Why don't companies come out and tell people what they're doing these days? Telemetry is getting to the point where people such as doctors and lawyers might be violating the law by using a modern computer. And people in the defense industry? Doesn't Apple employ thousands of forns? Who's audited their datasystems and ensured that this stuff stays private?

Much easier and better to just stop using it all and move to a system like Linux or BSD. 99% of people do everything in a browser these days anyhow.

If only moving to Linux were an option for everyone.

The other day I tried for the 100th time to move to Linux. I installed a recent build of a maintained, popular distribution (no it doesn't matter which one - I have tried them all), on hardware that is famous for it's Linux support.

Everything worked for a day and a half, then the sound just fucking died. No input or output.

I get millions of people use Linux daily, and are happy with it -- I'm genuinely grateful that's a thing. I would love to also use Linux, but I really don't have the time to diagnose why it broke yet again.

Any suggestions for people stuck on macOS? I guess I could block all Apple domains in my DNS resolver? Other than app updates, I can't think of anything that would stop working. That still sounds less painful than trying to deal with Linux's atrocious UX.

Vagrant.

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

Spin up a Linux box in macOS and ssh into it directly. It is a true joy if you are comfortable working with text files (programming, admin, focused writing, etc.)

It will default to using VirtualBox as the underlying virtualization. That works a treat and hides all the GUI madness of VirtualBox.

However, if you open up VirtualBox then you can interact with the host you just created with “vagrant up” just fine, including using a graphical environment.

I've never used that before, but it sounds a bit like Docker? As in, it's got a VM in the background and I can interact with it?