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[–] 56 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Windows is less corporate than MacOS?

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    If we're talking hardware restrictions, sure I get it from the walled garden.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Mac OS isn't iOS, there is no walled garden.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It still a walled garden in the sense that Apple is the only one that can code sign and certify software for the MacOS. So every dev that wants to release software on MacOS still needs to pay for membership of Apple’s developer program even if they don’t distribute trough the App Store. Unless they want their user to disable a security feature on MacOS and ignore the warnings.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That’s not exactly true. Users don’t have to “disable” anything. They just have to click a button that says they understand the risk of running unsigned software. You can run anything you want on MacOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Well you might also need to run some arcane incantation to remove quarantine bits, too. And it'll only work if it's actually been ported to the m-series chips, of course. And sometimes you just need to compile the whole god damn app yourself anyway. But sure, caveats side, you can run anything you want on macos that runs on macos. As long as you're not using a company-issued device and are forbidden.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I've got the hot take of wondering if Windows is less corporate than ChromeOS. I'm sure there's some open sourcing going on from Windows but ChromiumOS (which I assume has major issues, AOSP certainly does) exists, and someone could build something cool with it.

    Sadly we'll never have an open source Windows XP.

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