I'm not being paid, and not the OP. Typing this reply on a Thinkpad R50e, which my SO rescued from the neighborhood bin when taking trash out. I put a Debian (

I'm not being paid, and not the OP. Typing this reply on a Thinkpad R50e, which my SO rescued from the neighborhood bin when taking trash out. I put a Debian (Tanglu) on it, and use it for everything. My beloved Mini is sitting in it's corner of the room, looking as hipster as ever, but it's not the same. Apple used to have a clearer, more cohesive vision for the UX it's software provides. I feel that they have become more daring with the kind of stuff they let in now. And the stuff that they let go of. Tiger was amazing, a smooth UNIX, half-way there in each way it mattered but so clearly pointed at the right targets. Leopard was more of everything, and Snow Leopard was the first, I feel that went nowhere in particular. And so it goes. Stuff keeps changing for reasons of business goals, or background architecture; but not because of matters of taste, or doing more with less. I'm not feeling it. What Sierra is, in my eye, is a Snow Leopard sitting on the Shared Apple Device Cloud batting it's many eyelashes, whereas before I knew exactly where it was, and what it was about.