[kccqzy]

Honestly that's my feeling as well, but even for workstations, it has begun to dawn on me that spending time configuring the minutiae of various settings and flags and plists etc just isn't worth my time. I just want a workstation that's simple, secure, and effective in getting things done.

[phs318u]

That pretty much sums up my journey. I used to run Windows 2000 at home and decided to switch to Linux (Slackware) when it was rumoured that XP would have "phone home telemetry". Then after a few years of spending way too many hours on various different distros, decided I wanted a *nix machine that just worked and switched to Apple.

[cortesoft]

Those are fine defaults, but why is it bad to allow people to explicitly opt out of this and do what they want? Other people being allowed to hack on their machine doesn't stop yours from being locked down.

[_bxg1]

To a point. I use a Mac for work because it has many of the desirable qualities of Linux, without the hassle. But at the same time I know that if I ever need to just get in there and change something, which does happen occasionally, I can still do that.