Question about future development & file systems

[scottperezfox]

I just bought a new Mac Studio and have been rocketed into the presented day from my comfy place using Mojave. The new file system seems to be extremely locked down, not allowing any user modifications to the default Apple installation. Is there a future for Monolingual?

Specifically, in Monterey, I ran it, but it hardly made a difference. In poking around, I still see many, many languages (and fonts) installed. What a pain to see Apple forcing this on us and not even allowing a workaround.

The issue seems to be the file system. The whole two-volumes-one-of-which-is-read-only is very new for me, and so far I don't see the upside. Expert users should be able to modify their systems ... I think you all agree.

[IngmarStein]

Even before the introduction of the system volume, Monolingual paid attention not to break any code signatures (which sometimes include localized resources, even though they shouldn't) and play nice with System Integrity Protection. Monolingual can still process the user data and remove a fair share of unneeded data, but the impact has been reduced significantly, as you say.

[scottperezfox]

Thanks for the speedy reply!

You saved me 60MB, which I appreciate, but there are probably another 10GB of languages permanently bolted into the system. So far, I am nothing but disappointed with the new file system and decisions for a read-only disk. Very anti-pro-user.