====== Why Macs are shit ======

===== Shit Apple users say =====

==== "Macs don't have viruses!" ====
Nah, Viruses are so last century. MacOS has neat encrypting trojans ("ransomware") now!

  * [[https://securelist.com/shlayer-for-macos/95724/|Shlayer Trojan attacks one in ten macOS users]] (Kaspersky, 2020)
  * [[https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/ransomware-3659100/|Can Macs get ransomware? How to stop a ransomware attack]] (Macworld, 2020)

===== Hardware =====

  * no liquid drainage below the keyboard
  * bad ventilation – the palm rest gets really hot
  * dent-prone casing – it's sexy, but it's also aluminium.
  * bad display coating ("[[http://www.staingate.org/|staingate]]")
  * the apple magic mouse has its charging port on the bottom, so you can't use it while charging.
  * fuse for the display circuit in Macbooks doesn't protect it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7X9845ORc|the pins on the connector blow]]

===== Software =====

  * you need brew.sh for dev tools, which is a third party hack

==== HFS+ ====
  * Is case insensitive and causes problems this way
    * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150112214037if_/https://plus.google.com/+JunioCHamano/posts/1Bpaj3e3Rru|Linus Torvalds: "Quite frankly, HFS+ is probably the worst filesystem ever. Christ what shit it is."]] (comment to post by +JunioCHamano on Google+, 2015)
      * Related Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876319
  * [[https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7/12/#hfs-problems|John Siracusa: What's wrong with HFS+]]

===== further information =====
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8|The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures]] – Louis Rossmann
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfrYOWlKJ_g|Why I don't use Apple products]] – Louis Rossmann