Any good privacy guides on MacOS?

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Hey.

Decided to move to a MacBook (from my Dell + Arch-linux) mainly due to battery duration and hardware in general. (I rarely exit the terminal, so not really interested on anything that targets visual/UI/UX stuff TBH)

I know I can definitely re-use some of my tooling/config of my linux-distro in it related to privacy concerns (browser, DNS config, firewall config… blablabla. But are there any specifics for MacOS that I should be aware of?

Like config options to deactivate or turn-off, things to avoid configuring or using, must-have software or similar stuff?
I know for example disk is encrypted by default, but in any case, I want to see if there’s any good guide that tries to cover as much stuff as possible.

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This is the most comprehensive guide, imo: GitHub - drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide: Guide to securing and improving privacy on macOS

Privacy Guides also has a guide for macOS: macOS Overview - Privacy Guides

You can use Linux on Macs with Asahi. However, it’s still experimental and not all hardware features are supported.

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Beerisgood has some nice compilations and recommendations to go through.

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That’s what I use daily. The missing hardware features are not relevant to me.

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The issue with Asahi is that for M4 nothing is yet supported. I’d be up for loosing features. But not all of them :frowning: