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> It still has too many approval dialogs and notifications, but it isn’t quite as hostile as Windows

I’m genuinely intrigued by which approval dialogs and notifications you find so hostile in MacOS?

If it’s SIP or Gatekeeper you’re talking about, there are easily implemented workarounds.

Otherwise I really can’t think of any “notifications” from the OS

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I have a MacBook I use occasionally for work. I don't have an AppleID and don't want to make one (same as Microsoft Account). Every time I boot the system, there are about 20 untagged login prompts and have to manually cancel.

That’s interesting. I have a MacBook for work with no Apple ID and I don’t think I’ve ever been asked to sign into anything. I wonder if there are fleet management controls my company is using to disable a lot of that stuff.

Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

> Just to provide one example, I definitely have seen macOS pop up notifications advertising that Safari is better than everything else, and I should switch back to Safari.

I would love to see a screenshot because this I simply don’t believe

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...

I saw it within the past year. I didn’t save a screenshot anywhere I can find. I believe I applied defaults overrides (like in the link) to prevent it from coming back, much like Windows GPO policies.

It's well documented, I saw it at least once a month when logged out of iCloud. Certainly not the most annoying pop-up though, that award goes to the automatic Apple Music launcher when you put on headphones.

This is an old thing they've been doing almost a decade now [0]. It's still around now [1]. You probably never because you either use Safari as your web browser or use it enough for the pop up to not trigger. I don't really get why you think this is unbelievable when Apple will regularly try to get you to use Apple Music, iCloud, etc. Why not Safari?

[0] https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/how-to-osx-try-safari-promotion....

[1] https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/TRYTHENEWSAFARI.html

I got my first Mac a few months ago and there are definitely a few annoying things. Not necessarily (only) popups, just weird error messages, bugs and the system sometimes telling me a jpeg file might be a virus that I may not want to "launch". Though on average I'd say it's a drastically better experience than the current state of Windows.

I’ve been using Mac for 12 years and never seen that dialog about a jpeg being a virus. Are you sure there _isn’t_ anything malicious embedded within the file?

Considering it happens with all files I download onto a USB drive, yes, I'm pretty sure it's not a virus. It seems Mac OS makes all files downloaded like that executable and then assumes it's all viruses.

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