I thought that installing macOS on a PC not manufactured by Apple has always been difficult by design (even before the shift to ARM), how is this not a walled garden strategy?
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hersh@literature.cafe 1 day ago
MacOS is not a walled garden any more than Windows is. That’s just iOS/iPadOS.
You can run any software you want on macOS. It doesn’t need to be from the App Store, and it doesn’t need to be notarized by Apple or even signed.
How long that will remain true is an open question. I don’t think they can realistically enforce signing or notarization in the near future. Too much would break.
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 22 hours ago
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s kinda open I guess… But as soon as you try to do things out of the box on MacOS, it just doesn’t work without a janky workarround ^^
And just don’t get me started on their .plist implementation 🤦♂️ I haven’t update for about 2 years, in fear it will totally break my current workflow and all the custom things I had to do to make it work HOW i like it and not how Apple dictates it.
It’s a gift, but God what I hate that dumb stupid Macraptop !
B0rax@feddit.org 1 day ago
Still loads better than customization on windows though….
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Can you freely choose what OS you run on all their hardware? If not, it’s a walled-garden.
hersh@literature.cafe 7 hours ago
You can run Linux on Mac hardware if that’s what you mean.
But I was talking about the software side, in comparison to Windows.
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Hence the “all” in “all their hardware”.