Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalinkHelp or get help'd × Table of Contents Shit Apple users say "Macs don't have viruses!" Hardware Software HFS+ further information 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! Shlayer Trojan attacks one in ten macOS users (Kaspersky, 2020) 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 ("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 Software you need brew.sh for dev tools, which is a third party hack HFS+ 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+ further information The horrible truth about Apple's repeated engineering failures – Louis Rossmann Why I don't use Apple products – Louis Rossmann Last modified: 2020-09-10 06:48