Re: It's 2025 and I still use Mac OS because ...

On 2025-05-14 05:02:03 +0000, scole said:

In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>, "Sebastian P."
<info@cornica.org> wrote:

 It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...
 <post your response>

 I first used a Mac in 2007 when I went to university as a mature student,
I got myself a MacBook. It had 10.4 Tiger installed and I was gobsmacked
at how good it was compared to Windows!
 Not long after that I picked up my first vintage Mac on eBay and had my
first experience of classic Mac OS, and was again gobsmacked at how much
nicer System 7 was when compared to my memories of using Windows 95 and
98...
 I still use classic Mac OS because I enjoy the elegant simplicity of it.
The UI is fantastic when compared to other non-Windows operating systems
of the 90s; AmigaOS for example is a royal pain in the arse compared to
Mac OS.

MacOS was, and still is, far better than any of the other operating systems, even in the quirky days of early MacOS X with it's limitations and missing features compared to MacOS 8 and 9. Part of the reason is simply because the original MacOS and earlier LisaOS were written as a graphical user interface from scratch for ease of use and a mouse by people who knew what they were doing. (Although, some of that has gone with newer versions of MacOS X packing in lots of unnecessary gimmickry rather than fixing lonf-existing bugs!)
Windows has always been abysmal. Partly because it had to cope with older mouse-less DOS programs and partly because Microsoft is simply incapable of programming anything properly. It was written by tech geeks with no understanding of normal people - the geeks love tinkering around for hours just to get a printer to work or an app to install.
AmigaOS, AtariOS, GeOS were very clunky to use, but still better than Windows.

And it's just fun, I enjoy pottering on my couple of old Macs, getting a
sense of satisfaction out of doing stuff with them. It gives me the warm
and fuzzies, bathed in a sense of nostalgia; even though I didn't
experience classic Mac Os first time around, using it transports me back
to a simpler time when the world was full of possibility. :)