Without intentionally trying to turn this in to an OS War, at least on a linux box, there was source code. So if something bothered you enough you could go in

Without intentionally trying to turn this in to an OS War, at least on a linux box, there was source code. So if something bothered you enough you could go in and fix it yourself (which added to your skills as a coder). These days, it feels like people enjoy digging around on their systems less and less, and they just want javascript to run in a browser.