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		ceejayoz on Feb 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion > With Debian and Ubuntu, there is no difficulty installing arbitrary unsigned packages, putting your own binaries on and running them, etc. Changing a single setting in the Preferences app (once!) is "difficult" now?

rmc on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

Yes.

Defaults matter. Non-technical users don't know about this computer magic.

ceejayoz on Feb 17, 2012 | [–]

Defaults do indeed matter. I'd say the default they've picked is the right one for anyone who thinks computers are magic.

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