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by AsyncAwait 2040 days ago
> Since I made the move I never wax nostalgic for the "Good Ole Days" of fighting for hours to get Wifi working properly.

I can assure you that you didn't have to do that for quite some time and it's not that which people are looking for.

- Am looking for a system that lets me run any damn thing I want without pipups, blocks, firewalls, warnings, requiring signed binaries etc.

I am looking to run and develop for the same environment I end up deploying on.

- I want a system that has native docker support, systemd and makes updating the whole system or installing pretty much anything as easy as one terminal command.

- It's important for me to trust my system; where I know no single entity has more power over the machine than myself and no secret upgrades I didn't desire are going to be pushed my way.

- There's no telemetry in my ideal system, certainly not at the system level and patched out at the app level where possible.

- I want a system that is open, configurable, respects the four freedoms and is community ran.

macOS cannot give me this, no matter how "fundamentally BSD" it is. I value the freedom that free software gives that no closed-source BSD ever could.