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I wasn't happy with MacOS from 8-ish to pre-X, but what was the alternative? I tried liking Solaris and IRIX (didn't ever use NeXT), but there was just nothing

by ynniv 16y ago

I wasn't happy with MacOS from 8-ish to pre-X, but what was the alternative? I tried liking Solaris and IRIX (didn't ever use NeXT), but there was just nothing out there. Win 95b was a brief glimpse into a future where Windows didn't suck, but they promptly sat on their laurels with 98 and then slapped their userbase around with ME. I tried BeOS a few times, but it never really had any software and the Web wasn't big enough at the time for a lack of software to be okay. I installed Rhapsody when it came out, and then tried to run OSX Developer Preview for a few months before I had to admit that it still wasn't quite baked. Now I couldn't be happier, but I still occasionally try desktop linux and other mobile phones. I won't say that Apple's products are perfect - the pinnacle of what can be done - just currently the best.

kenjackson 16y ago
You could have used NT. I was using NT 4.0 and it was pretty darn good. It killed, and I mean killed MacOS. I mean, the delta was way larger than probably the delta between even Vista and OSX. It was really big. The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough.
- ynniv 16y ago
  The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough. Wow, thats cold... I'm the zealot? There is some personal inertia in switching desktop platforms...
  - kenjackson 16y ago
    Fair enough. Although I would have stated that upfront (personal inertia). I was on the Amiga after it was no longer technologically the best platform. But I'd fully acknowledge that it was running on fumes at that point.
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- ynniv 16y ago
  Actually, I did give NT/PPC and NT/Alpha a spin, but again, no software. Also tried early Linux on Alpha/OpenFirmware/SCSI (no drivers or precompiled software). Basically, I've tried as many things as I could get my hands on (OS/2 and Amiga were a little early for me), and ultimately found them all to be poor "Personal Computers" compared to MacOS. Windows has been okay at times, but was always crippled by the weekly special hardware it ran on, even when that weekly special was workstation grade. Only a committed OS company and a large install base of specific OS/hardware combinations has ever had a solid experience. There was actually a short window in which Dell / Win2k was coming close to this ideal, but they quickly gutted their build quality for short term profits.
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by ynniv 16y ago

kenjackson 16y ago

You could have used NT. I was using NT 4.0 and it was pretty darn good. It killed, and I mean killed MacOS. I mean, the delta was way larger than probably the delta between even Vista and OSX. It was really big. The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough.

ynniv 16y ago
The fact that you stayed on MacOS I think says enough. Wow, thats cold... I'm the zealot? There is some personal inertia in switching desktop platforms...
- kenjackson 16y ago
  Fair enough. Although I would have stated that upfront (personal inertia). I was on the Amiga after it was no longer technologically the best platform. But I'd fully acknowledge that it was running on fumes at that point.
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ynniv 16y ago
Actually, I did give NT/PPC and NT/Alpha a spin, but again, no software. Also tried early Linux on Alpha/OpenFirmware/SCSI (no drivers or precompiled software). Basically, I've tried as many things as I could get my hands on (OS/2 and Amiga were a little early for me), and ultimately found them all to be poor "Personal Computers" compared to MacOS. Windows has been okay at times, but was always crippled by the weekly special hardware it ran on, even when that weekly special was workstation grade. Only a committed OS company and a large install base of specific OS/hardware combinations has ever had a solid experience. There was actually a short window in which Dell / Win2k was coming close to this ideal, but they quickly gutted their build quality for short term profits.
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