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Do all the reasons for avoiding Windows apply to Mac OS?

April 26, 2017avoiding Mac OS reasons Windows

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Do all the reasons for avoiding Windows apply to Mac OS?

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It’s quite common for Mac users to believe they are exempt from restrictions associated with Windows. Unfortunately such is not the case. Mac OSX does have some low-level components which are free software; and Apple puts less energy into customer lock-in (with some notable efforts such as BootCamp). However, the end-user is still fundamentally restricted — because of the proprietary license, he/she cannot use Mac OSX for all purposes, nor copy, study, modify, or redistribute it. Happily, because these freedoms matter a lot, it’s possible to run popular GNU/Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu) on Mac computers.