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What are the pros and cons of upgrading to Mojave for a hacker using a Mid-2013 MacBook Air?

Is that true that Mojave looks ugly on non-retina displays, won't allow your scripts to access some stuff previous versions allowed, integrates with Apple's internet services and DRMs more tightly and can have problems with playing old Windows games like Fallout 3 with Wine?

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You can preview "ugly" by turning off "Use LCD font smoothing where available" and restarting any app to check it out. It's subjective, lots of folks complained about subpixel being ugly when it was first introduced.

The Apple iCloud stuff is still optional. A "hacker" should have no trouble with the Terminal commands necessary to disable SIP.

Dunno about Fallout but Boot Camp and VMWare are still around.

Thanks.

> Boot Camp and VMWare are still around

At least it's too space-consuming to maintain a separate Windows system on a 128 GiB SSD, Wine/CrossOver feels a better solution in the cases where it can manage.

Better yet, use SteamPlay

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/

The ugly font issue for non-retina displays is real, luckily there's a workaround to revert it how it used to be:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool false

I've installed mojave on that same computer model and the font smoothing switch is there, and the pixels look the same as before, which is great. Nothing has changed.

Maybe they only removed the switch on retina macs.

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