[workerdrone451]

I don't use a Mac often (mainly Linux), but I do troubleshoot my significant other's. I'll add on my gripes:

- SMB shares are wonky and will randomly disconnect with vague errors.

- A large USB drive formatted with NTFS can't be mounted as read/write natively, you have to pay for a third party tool for that.

- Mac's built in gatekeeper software is inferior to Windows Defender. While there's less malware available, the ones out there can cause havoc and don't get caught.

- lastly, Mac restore process is not as easy as Windows, you can reset a Windows PC in a few clicks. Mac your manually nuking volumes, which for a newbie isn't really friendly.

[ubermonkey]

"lastly, Mac restore process is not as easy as Windows, you can reset a Windows PC in a few clicks. Mac your manually nuking volumes, which for a newbie isn't really friendly. "

This is not true. Macs had an in-place reinstall before Windows did, IIRC.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

[Macha]

My experience with SMB shares is that pretty much any client works ok with Samba, but only Windows is really reliable connecting to Windows over SMB.

[hguant]

The protocols on the wire are different than what's documented especially for older SMB servers - Windows "released documentation" on some of the protocols because they were being reversed, but the docs are flakey or incomplete.

The actual transfer operations are pretty straightforward, but the negotiation steps are _very_ intricate and the Microsoft docs about the protocols are less than honest at times.