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From your comment I'm going to guess that like most in this community, and lemmy as a whole, you know a lot more about this than your average user.
From the perspective of a reasonably tech savvy person that doesn't like to be told how to do things and is willing to put in a little effort, the question I ask is this; is this hardware I bought actually mine to do with as I please out of the box with a minimum amount of guardrails to stop me from doing something really stupid unless I know what I'm doing as opposed to just licensing it from a nanny?
Linux - yes, maybe too much, at least for me.
Windows - yeah, usually.
Mac - lmao no, stfu and take your sippy cup.
And there is nothing wrong with someone who is just a user saying "I don't ever want to deal with any of this shit, I'll take the sippy cup." But it's still a sippy cup.
I really don't see backing for this take like... anywhere?
Sure: Linux gives you absolute control, I won't debate that. I work on a Mac however, and haven't yet found any guard rails that a simple
sudo !!won't get me passed.Windows on the other hand requires you to do all sorts of arcane shit if you want to do anything at all outside of checking boxes in a shitty GUI to enable/disable features.