Re: Apple requires too much money and sacrifice of control

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

[I wrote]

I could give you my entire PC history from MS DOS 2.4 in 1984 via 'Doze
3.0 to NT4, then Mandrake Linux for several years before I saw the
light, put away my screwdrivers and switched to macOS 10.3 "Panther".
I've stuck with Macs ever since; they just *work*, you know?
 
I could go on but it would be even boring than the above.
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I recall having a Mac running X.1.5 and then x.2 at a time when decent
browsers for that operating system didn't exist. It was Internet
Explorer or some independent browser whose name I can't remember.
Eventually, Apple released Safari and made things a little better. I
don't believe that even Firefox was around at the time. This was
definitely a period when the Mac didn't "just work."
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I can't speak to that, I began with Macs at OS X 10.3 "Panther".
I had no difficulties with that at all. 

I suppose you might equate Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 with
Windoze 1 and 2.  I imagine that you will remember what
early 'Doze was like. . .

What was early Linux like?

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