| > Why can't I do this by clicking something in system prefs like when I open a downloaded app? If you could change it in system preferences it'd defeat the entire point of SIP, which is to run the OS rootless. Your user isn't privileged enough to disable it which is why you need to boot into recovery mode in order to disable it. This feature isn't unique to MacOS, either [1]. And of course, if you don't like it, you can disable it once and never have to think about it again! At worst you're running with true root privileges, which isn't different from linux. For what it's worth, Yabai's tiling actually works fine without disabling SIP. Your link enumerates the features that requires disabling SIP. > But, my experience has often been that things I would be willing to invest to customize on macOS are simply not customizeable. A lot of the time it's definitely more convoluted to customize MacOS though i am curious what sorts of things you are trying to customize that you couldn't. > (as to the 'your time is money!' counterargument people sometimes make here - it takes me about 2 hours to build a PC and my linux box hasn't panicked or booted improperly once). When people say "your time is money" with regards to using Linux, it's rarely about building a computer and generally has to do with using the OS itself. > TLDR; You're probably right. Macs aren't a great choice if you're a power user (read: control freak) with your PC. I think it's more that it's not a great choice if you don't want to invest the same amount of time you've invested in learning how to be a power user in a different operating system. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/securi... |
I learned a bunch of linux stuff for fun, and it's helped me a lot in my job. I dunno if I could say the same about macOS.