Why the Mac sucks

One of my students who wishes to remain anonymous… is running Apple Snow Leopard on a shiny new MacBook. I must admit it’s a nice looking machine with a very glossy screen. But it seems to be completely useless for doing any kind of real work. Although it’s possible to make it work in theory (as demonstrated by one of my postdocs), it seems very difficult in practice (as demonstrated by one of my PhD students). The Mac seems to give an equivalent experience to what I had with Slackware GNU/Linux 12 years ago. Most everything must be built from source, PATHs are always wrong and you need to be an expert to do even the simplest things.

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