This is an honest question (from a linux bigot), not an anti-Mac rant: Do you really find this to be less of a problem on Macs?
'Cause I'd expect the opposite; I've always gotten the impression that Macs are even _more_ closed to casual inspection and tinkering than Windows boxes (although they're *much* better designed and implemented).
[edit: being your own grammar Nazi is a terrible thing]
I am not a computer pro or expert or tinkerer of any stripe; I'm just a creative person trying to get stuff done. Macs have always allowed me to do that, while PCs, historically, have not. PCs will insist one learns to navigate the intricacies of the PC in order to do the simplest things, Macs will just let one do things.
Closed to "casual" inspection, but the "Inside Macintosh" series was readily available even for the older Macs — and, of course, modern Macs / OSX are Unix(ish) under the covers.
(I admit the hardware was, and is, a bit more opaque.)
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'Cause I'd expect the opposite; I've always gotten the impression that Macs are even _more_ closed to casual inspection and tinkering than Windows boxes (although they're *much* better designed and implemented).
[edit: being your own grammar Nazi is a terrible thing]
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(I admit the hardware was, and is, a bit more opaque.)