I’ve never used a Mac, can you not just write your own app and run it?
I do that on windows all the time.
It's already running
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Agent641@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 17 minutes ago
That’s fucked. Normally I can coax just about any windows app to run on even windows 11, and I have to because sometimes I interact with ancient industrial machines with monolithic Configurator apps that need a serial connection and a bunch of weird custom commands that was last used in 1998. I’d be boned without them.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
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.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.
4am@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I can tell this meme is old because windows does the same shit MacOS does now and has been since at least Windows 10
9point6@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
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”
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?”
freely1333@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Actually worse - you don’t do it in the system settings anymore. You have to run a terminal command to dequarantine it. On windows you just have to click see more and accept the risk (or similar). Mac made it way more painful with no prompt to even show you how to do it - and it sort of acts like the app is broken rather than telling you it’s even a security protection.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
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
Just like I have to go into windows defender settings and add exclusions (trust) to anything it deems suspicious
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 13 hours ago
WINDOWS PROTECTED YOUR COMPUTER 🍑
We have detected 🍆 and unverified app attempting to run on
ouryour device and stopped it.nialv7@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
you are being protected, please don’t resist.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Satya Nadella: “Whether the users like it or not, I’m going to protect them.”
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
sudo apt-get install your_mom
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 2 hours ago
I’m going to mount your_mom on my /
pewpew@feddit.it 11 hours ago
Linux: Go ahead and break the system, I don’t care lol
Matriks404@lemmy.world 27 minutes ago
Linux works great as long as the regular user doesn’t have root rights. In my opinion if you install Linux on your family’s or friends’ devices, you never give the root rights, unless you want them to eventually break their system, and you will need to be an administrator for their systems.
Okay another option are immutable distros I guess, but you still can fuck them up easily (probably).
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Which would cause major problems for regular users. They need to be protected from themselves.
It is one of the biggest reasons why Linux is not ready for mainstream in its current form.
Koarnine@pawb.social 44 minutes ago
Lmao this is foolish, what about Bazzite and other immutable distributions, wouldn’t they then be more ready for mainstream than windows and mac os? Since it’s impossible to modify (and therefore break) the underlying system…
zewm@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
rm -rf /
Go vroooooooooooom
pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
–no-preserve-root
Una@europe.pub 13 hours ago
“Can I delete root directory, please 🥺🥺?”
“Of course 👍”
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
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.
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Back when I was a linux noob I uninstalled python since I had some package issues. Lol, lmao even
faltryka@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I have no problem running apps from friends or myself on my macs?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shh, don’t stop them when they’re acting superior
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
The way macOS handles it is literally just exactly how Linux handles it. Makes sense considering macOS is certified UNIX and Linux is technically a re-implementation of UNIX.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Most proper on here don’t know the difference between MacOS and iOS, which makes them actually like the caricature of Apple users they mock.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
This is so dumb. Of course you can run an app coded by your friend. Either your friend can pay $100 a year to notarize their app, or you can pay $100 a year to run his app as a developer. Couldn’t be easier.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
At least it’s just a $100 on Windows you pay $800 a year to the certification mafia to get your code signed and get rid of the warning.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
At least on Windows you can run your software without paying a single cent.
Mac Maffia is much bigger extortion.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Either way, somebody pays Apple $10} a year. After paying them the equivalent of a kidney for the hardware. No thanks.
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Windows itself is a virus
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think thatsthejoke.jpg
marcos@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nah, it’s one of the virus running there, but not the one they are talking about.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Remember when people thought you couldn’t get viruses on macOS? I even knew some people who thought you couldn’t get a virus on Linux
Quique@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Its way less likely to get one though, the Windows market is way bigger then MacOS
flandish@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
i run custom apps on my mac all the time. i write some of them.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The elusive hacker known as 4chan!
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
It’s almost the opposite of this?
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 19 minutes ago
There are also viruses on MacOS. Just sayin’.