The first version of OSX looked horrible. The horizontal lines over the menus made them almost impossible to read. Over the next several major releases the lin

The first version of OSX looked horrible. The horizontal lines over the menus made them almost impossible to read. Over the next several major releases the lines became less and less pronounced until it wasn't terrible anymore around 10.5. Also the unbearable sluggishness of the OSX interface during those days, mainly caused my Apple trying to do too much with too weak hardware, made the system objectively worse than CDE. CDE may have been ugly but it was usable and faster.