I can tell this meme is old because windows does the same shit MacOS does now and has been since at least Windows 10
It's already running
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
9point6@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
It’s extra fun when you’ve inserted a 30 year old install CD and Defender gets all up in arms because the developer/distributor dared to not register their signing key with Windows defender in 1998
REDACTED@infosec.pub 3 weeks 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
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
sudo apt-get install your_mom
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 weeks ago
I’m going to mount your_mom on my /
pewpew@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Linux: Go ahead and break the system, I don’t care lol
zewm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
rm -rf /
Go vroooooooooooom
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
–no-preserve-root
Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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).
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Honestly similar things can be said of windows systems, though there are some exploits that get through. Most do rely on the person launching having admin rights.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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…
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Immutable Distros exist buddy
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IT professional here with 20+ years work experience. Not once have I ever met another tech that liked Apple. Personally, I despise them. Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price. And yes, I have seen viruses on Macs.
They’re just really good at advertising to people who don’t understand technology.
quips@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Maybe 10-20 years ago. Today macs are great machines, especially for the price.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unintuitive locked down garbage that can’t do anything a PC can’t do for half the price.
From the user perspective, enterprise managed Windows is locked down, too, and somehow less reliable.
Most of the software engineers I know in FAANG and similar tier companies use Macbooks to program. Poke around a coffee shop in the bay area during a weekday and look around.
And personally, I switched to Mac about 15 years ago mainly because dependency management and the shell made more sense to me coming from Linux. Windows has always been trash, and most other non-Apple OEMs make the actual physical laptop experience worse (hinges, behavior on closing the lid, trackpad behavior and size, power management, display quality in both brightness and pixel density, webcam/audio behavior).
FunnySalt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Long time and still current hater of all things Apple here.
I have to use a locked down enterprise managed Windows 11 laptop for work. If given the choice of that or a locked down enterprise managed Mac, I’d switch in a heartbeat.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Mostly just because they’re unfamiliar and require different tooling. They used to be really shit machines and the users were godawful. Now theyre decent machines and all users are godawful.
Una@europe.pub 3 weeks ago
“Can I delete root directory, please 🥺🥺?”
“Of course 👍”
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Back when I was a linux noob I uninstalled python since I had some package issues. Lol, lmao even
sonofearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sudo gives you slavery right /s
faltryka@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have no problem running apps from friends or myself on my macs?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Shh, don’t stop them when they’re acting superior
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Either way, somebody pays Apple $10} a year. After paying them the equivalent of a kidney for the hardware. No thanks.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
At least on Windows you can run your software without paying a single cent.
Mac Maffia is much bigger extortion.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There are also viruses on MacOS. Just sayin’.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but no free ones.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
there is one bundled for free called MacOS X
saigot@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
By default windows does block unverified binaries. It’s pretty annoying. You have to click more info and then run anyway: Image
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This meme might be referring to the RedSun zero-day, currently unpatched in Win10 & Win11, where detected malicious SW gets installed to the system folder for you by defender.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The macOS Gatekeeper quarantine is stupid, and Windows loves detecting random files as malware and deleting them while you’re using them and not restoring them even after you tell it to allow the “threat”.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Though I do wonder how much of that “detects random files as malware” is actually detecting real malware hidden inside software that also does what it claims to do. Like “this removes game’s DRM and also installs a helpful little rootkit for if we need to help you debug something, DDOS websites we hate, or act as an annonymous proxy”.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Windows does it to apps and files from people I trust or to ones I’ve created myself. I’ve even caught it basing detection on fuzzy string matching and nothing else (Bifrost vs Bifrose in the app name and that’s it).
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
mimavox@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
For now, that is. Thing is that MacOS is on a trajectory where it becomes more and more locked down.
Bababasti@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Pfff get outta here with your differentiated opinions, weighing pros and cons and all that mumbo jumbo. macOS bad!!11
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.
shweddy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Linux experience :
I want to delete my entire filesystem
Sure thing! It’ll be gone by the time you rebootbhamlin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s kind of dated. All the times I’ve done this recently it’s gone seconds after I screwed up.
Rakudjo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Linux experience:
What really is a virus? Software is software, bro 🤷♂️
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Chill brah, it’s just files
azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Windows itself is a virus
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think thatsthejoke.jpg
marcos@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, it’s one of the virus running there, but not the one they are talking about.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Good luck, I’m behind 7 Commodore 64s
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Its way less likely to get one though, the Windows market is way bigger then MacOS
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i run custom apps on my mac all the time. i write some of them.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The elusive hacker known as 4chan!
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
S tier meme 👌
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I don’t know if it’s the headcanon I’m reading for the nordic chad voices but I laugh literally everytime I open this image lol
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I didn’t know there are Nordic chad voices
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I write things for my Appla laptop all the time. And download whatever I want.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It’s almost the opposite of this?
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
WINDOWS PROTECTED YOUR COMPUTER 🍑
We have detected 🍆 and unverified app attempting to run on
ouryour device and stopped it.nialv7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
you are being protected, please don’t resist.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Satya Nadella: “Whether the users like it or not, I’m going to protect them.”