We're talking about seven random things Windows users believe macOS might be lagging. This has nothing to do with actual grievances of Mac users. It all comes down to, I'm used to something else and I refuse to adapt. 90% of the complains against Apple Silicon Macs are of this category. And this Linus guy is a serial offender.
Linus Tech Tips has an Apple dedicated channel, called
Mac Address. It seems to be Linus' way of pretending to be unbiased. If you want in-depth coverage about the Mac and macOS, then that secondary channel isn't the best, but at least it isn't a barrage of negativity. On LTT proper, Anthony is usually platform agnostic, and when he has covered the Mac by himself, he is generally positive, yet here he's being shoehorned into an anti-Mac screed.
Linus himself is another matter, along with most of his cohort. His clickbait titles, "shock face" thumbnails, and open disdain for the Mac are constantly on display. He takes random shots at Apple, but I think he's salty because Apple has never advertised on his channel. Linus' company has gotten so big that he seems to care about his sponsors more than his viewers. Since every video they release starts with a 30-second "this is sponsored by" it's easy to forget that some of those videos are nothing but extended infomercials disguised as tech reviews.
I can't blame Apple for having no interest in advertising with his company, because he's always trotting another opinion piece going after the Mac, to the point where it's like clockwork. He knows his audience, and they eat up what he is peddling. That includes his overpriced nicknacks and backhanded digs at the fruit company. Slamming the Mac is cheap heat among PC partisans. It's the same reason that he is constantly "dropping" expensive hardware, for slapstick humor, because it's a simplistic way to get a reaction.
Linus appeals to PC nerds who lambast the Mac for being an expensive "toy", yet their primary argument revolves around having comparatively fewer computer games available on the Mac, while those same adherents are furiously typing up those comments using a custom muscle gaming PC housed inside an anime themed case. The irony of that criticism aside, all Apple Silicon Macs are quite performant with game titles optimized for Apple Silicon. That's unlike the garbage Intel iGPUs that are still shipped inside a great many Windows laptops and desktops; an albatross which Apple Silicon does away with now that the Mac's fate is no longer handcuffed to Intel's inefficient designs and archaic architecture.
There are legitimate criticisms about the Mac and macOS. I have many myself. However, I respect the opinions of other Mac users over some PC diehard who doesn't know the first thing about the Mac, and uses his substantial reach to preach to the PC faithful. Meanwhile, Linus appears to know nothing about Apple Silicon, macOS, or the platform in general. In the past, he refutes his ignorant bias because he owns an Apple Watch and is "literally an Apple customer", in his words.
Linus is the living embodiment of a Windows PC given human form. There's nothing wrong with catering to his audience, but when he attempts to stray into territory that he obviously has great disdain for, it does no one any favors, other than to stroke the ego of PC users who look down upon us Mac plebeians. If he were as open-minded as he claims, then he'd do a "Mac challenge" like he did with Linux, but that's not going to happen. His anti-Apple videos get too many hits for him to back off from it now. Ignorance is profitable, in this case.
Regarding people who are new to the Mac that are trying to adapt to macOS and the Mac experience, my advice has always been the same: don't try to make a Mac into a PC. Don't try to force macOS into behaving like Windows. Don't try to make Apple Silicon into an x86 PC. Learn to use a Mac as a new device and your experience will be much better for it. Window management is different, firmware boot options are far more limited but less esoteric, backup routines using Time Machine are streamlined, macOS has strong built-in security without needing third-party anti-virus, and some things are so easy that they aren't immediately obvious. Unlike Windows, macOS generally stays out of your way to let you get your work done.
When I am forced to use Windows, I don't try to make it into a Mac, I deal with the PC's strengths and weaknesses as they are. The same should be considered when using a Mac, but many people have never used a Mac in their entire lives, so the differences can be jarring. Everyone has been a Windows user, at some point in our computing existence, so the PC mediocrity is always going to be familiar regardless of which new color of paint Microsoft is using to hide the various ancient layers of Windows archeology installed on any generic x86 space heater.
