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jeroenhdyesterday at 7:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

So does Windows. macOS locks you into a company that hoovers up your data but pinky promises not to sell it and will fight tooth and nail to have prevent others from doing the exact same thing on their operating system.

If you care about privacy, Linux and BSDs are the only options, but actually good out-of-the-box Linux laptops are few and far between.

Except for Chromebooks, of course.


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prependtoday at 4:18 PM

There’s a pretty big difference as Apple can’t access the data stored in iDrive. Only you can locally.

Big difference from google and microsoft where everything you type and do is being tracked and fed into ads.

retiredyesterday at 7:54 PM

Big difference is that you can use macOS without a user account. Can't do that with Windows without some hidden terminal magic.

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