> However, if I install Homebrew, then install python, then install a pip package, there's really no kind of scanning/notarization/checking happening at all.
There is: you are running that pip package in a chain of processes: Terminal (or iTerm, or whatever) - your shell - python - pip package. In this chain, Terminal has "Developer Tools" privilege, which allows you to run software, that does not meet the system's security policy.
You can disable this privilege in System settings, Privacy and Security panel.
> When you dynamically link a library, the entire library is loaded into RAM.
It doesn't. When you dynamic link a library, no part of it is loaded into RAM. It is page-faulted in, as it is used. In the end, only parts that were really used were loaded into RAM.
> Federal wiretap law can compel companies to make it easy for the government to get data via a warrant
Not the same thing. The wiretap law cannot compel any company; only licensed telcos. These companies, in exchange for license to be able to provide such service to general public get some advantages, but have to agree to a set of limitations.
I have my doubts that Apple would be a holder of such license that would make it a subject to such regulations.
It is easy to find windows app, that is either blurry (basically almost all installers), or is confused by hidpi (take any qt app and you have 1:1 chance it will get it wrong, like this: https://imgur.com/a/Ad0ZkmX).
They used to be, but not anymore. However, they switched, because even if not pixel perfect, it is good enough. At sizes used by their laptop, most users are not going to notice that it is not pixel perfect.
The system they use gets them something: 1) apps do not have bother with fractional scaling, so they do not get to bother about rounding errors and 2) they get to use output encoder for scaling, which is essentially for free, instead of GPU, which will take its toll on power consumption and GPU load.
> a cyclist ran over a child (ER took the child to hospital) on a busy promenade on the bank of the river.
Promenades happen to be dedicated to pedestrians. So pedestrian was hit in a place, where he was supposed to be safe.
And then...
> Meanwhile there's over 2000 deadly car accidents a year in Poland, 20% of which are pedestrians[1], meaning there's more than one pedestrian killed by a car every day.
These accidents probably didn't happen on promenades, pavements, sidewalks, footpaths or other places dedicated to pedestrians.
So back to my point: comparing apples with apples. This comparison wasn't it.
cmd.exe and powershell do not include "terminal emulators". Pre-Windows Terminal, they (and every other console app) use conhost.exe, that comes with the system. Windows Terminal comes with openconsole.exe, that any app can use instead. In Windows 11, it can be set up as the default one.
On the other hand, if you take a book that leans towards ideas and concepts, and you make series with character-driver narrative out of it so people won't tune out, you get something like Foundation, that has only title and names of places and characters common with the original. All that made the original interesting is lost.
You can join a meeting; you cannot share your desktop. You cannot share your desktop, because that software is buggy and without complaining, that bug will be never fixed.
Nobody pays Nvidia. Nvidia has an opportunity to enter the market (on Windows and Linux) and it is up to them to use it. It usually goes easier if it is not against the grain.
On some platforms (Mac) they don't have that opportunity at all.
Yes, Pipewire is at 0.3 today; but that's not a problem. Pipewire has the ambition to replace Pulseaudio, Jack and provide APIs for several other subject, not just screen grabbing. That's the part that is missing toward 1.0.
Screengrabbing during the last year was even better than what X11 could provide, including the ability for the user to limit the grabbing to display or window. That's something that user cannot have under control in X11.
Pipewire is also not limited to Wayland; it will work with X11 too, so the X11 users won't be abandoned just because there's Wayland support too. Firefox doesn't seem to have problem with it, Chrome has it behind flags. For apps with fast moving releases as these, I don't see any problem with them supporting 0.3 release and when/if there is API breaks, updating it.
Beats not supporting screen sharing under Wayland at all.
While I agree, that support for popular apps is a problem for platform, it doesn't mean that the platform will freeze for every snowflake app.
Apple for example regularly uses pressure from users on app authors to drive improvements in their platform. I don't see why Linux distributions should flip backward to keep their platform static, to the detriment of their long term development.