Why Macs are shit

Nah, Viruses are so last century. MacOS has neat encrypting trojans ("ransomware") now!

• Shlayer Trojan attacks one in ten macOS users (Kaspersky, 2020)
• Can Macs get ransomware? How to stop a ransomware attack (Macworld, 2020)

• 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 ("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, the pins on the connector blow

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

• Is case insensitive and causes problems this way
  • 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
• John Siracusa: What's wrong with HFS+

• The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures – Louis Rossmann
• Why I don't use Apple products – Louis Rossmann