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After upgrading, I was prompted to allow the AltTab utility to control something "for one month," or to open Settings. So I opened Settings and everything was already enabled.

The question is who is clamoring for all this BS? The cynic would say that Apple is prepping us all for the eventual iOSification of Macs, where you can't do squat. Which will leave only Linux as a viable (AKA tolerable) computing platform.

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To be fair, I switched away from Windows back in ~2004 and used Macos pretty much exclusively since then, with the exception of Linux, which wasn't feeling as good for desktop.

I switched again, in Dec 2023 to Linux as desktop, due to the kind of issues we're discussing ITT, and also due to Apple's "buy new, you can't repair" effective hardware policy.

I setup a couple of Windows 11 machines with WSL too, and tend to use them a lot more than I expected. There's issues, and I'm still figuring some things out wrt to doing things in Windows (not WSL) but the experience is significantly better than expected.

I'm not a fan of M$ but Apple are really taking the cake for anti-user hostility these days.

and iTerm, Zoom, WebEx, Teams, talosctl... All kinds of prompts like that only to find everything enabled.

It was when Apple started to imply that Chromium, LibreOffice etc was Malware...

Yeah, sure Apple.... sure.

it’s pretty obnoxious especially when it’s something vital that I use my mac for everyday like displaylink or google chrome audio sharing or microsoft teams

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