On: Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur

[Terretta]

99% of users need opinionated settings as they are not qualified to have opinions on them.

So the right path for consumer OS is ‘sound opinions, easily changed’.

[wool_gather → Terretta]

Well said. And frankly, this is true even of FOSS -- or why are there so many flavors of Linux?

Even technical users are going to differ in the sets of opinions they hold and are qualified to hold. I care about which Python I have installed. The virtual memory manager? Not so much. Someone else might, though.