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metroholografix ◴[] No.24839240[source]
Background: I've written my own kernel extension that works in similar manner to Little Snitch, but does a lot more, including SSL MITM and on-demand packet capture, that I've been using for more than 10 years now.

It's a fact that Apple has continuously moved to lock down macOS in ways that are antithetical to folks that want full control over their operating system. To many of us that moved on from Linux on the desktop, the combination of a stable/uniform/attractive desktop environment with a Unix core that had great developer documentation -no longer the case!- and nicely-designed APIs was too much to resist. Unfortunately, the push towards consumers and Apple's increasingly one-sided my-way-or-the-highway approach (fueled by security concerns that to me are completely irrelevant, if not a huge annoyance and waste of time) means that a lot of us oldschool Unix hackers were left out in the cold.

I don't plan to upgrade past Mojave and at some point in the future I will move back to Linux.

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kar1181 ◴[] No.24839592[source]
The linux desktop experience is still quite in a state. I will likely do the same and suffer Linux, but I think many will go back to windows as WSL continues to improve.

Apple is going to lose developers.

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DrAwdeOccarim ◴[] No.24840249[source]
Try Linux Mint with xfce. Really nice out of the box.
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1. 3131s ◴[] No.24844127[source]
Or MATE on an older laptop. Linux Mint is great!