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0 pointsLeoPanthera3y ago0 comments

This is simply untrue, especially for Macs.

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Dalewyn3y ago· 2 in thread

Have you actually used MacOS without perusing Apple's services? It's horrible, because MacOS is designed with the assumption the user has an Apple account.

It's not obnoxious like Windows 11's badgering for a Microsoft account, but it manifests in parts of MacOS (namely anything to do with the App Store) flat out refusing to work until an Apple account is provided.

I may have to make a throwaway Apple account just so I can do something as mundanely basic as updating the system applications.

LeoPantheraOP3y ago

> I may have to make a throwaway Apple account just so I can do something as mundanely basic as updating the system applications.

Perhaps you have an odd definition of "system applications", but macOS updates do not require logging into iCloud, or the use of an Apple ID.

Dalewyn3y ago

System applications as in the programs that come pre-installed with a fresh install of MacOS.

Updating MacOS doesn't require an Apple account, but not the pre-installed stuff.

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