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I think you might be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. Indeed, we tend to forget the problems. I tend to have the same feeling (10.5 and 10.6 w
by danieldk 9y ago
I think you might be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses.
Indeed, we tend to forget the problems. I tend to have the same feeling (10.5 and 10.6 were rock-solid), but with a little digging I found this comment from 2008-me on another website:
And a lot doesn't. My printer (a Laserjet 5L, connected through a parallel to USB converter) works without a hassle on GNU/Linux. It worked terrible on Leopard until 10.5.2, after a certain number of pages, it just refused to print anything but empty or mangled pages.
Similarly, the wireless support is quite bad in Leopard. E.g. I worked for two months on the Eduroam wireless network full-time. On a MacBook plus Leopard, the connection was constantly dropped, and it usually took ten minutes to authenticate succesfully. A friend, who has an Ubuntu laptop OTOH, had no problems connecting at all.
[snip Linux rant, irrelevant]