The first version of OS X I ran was the beta that didn’t look much like the UI we know today. In those days I was a NetBSD user. The first public release of OS

The first version of OS X I ran was the beta that didn’t look much like the UI we know today. In those days I was a NetBSD user. The first public release of OS X was mana from heaven for me. I think the addition of Expose (Panther?) was the high point for me in terms of OS X releases. The addition of Spotlight shortly thereafter marked the beginning of features that I started disabling either partially or wholly. Now I’m not entirely comfortable running macOS as a daily driver simply because I know heaps of crap is turned on that I probably don’t want, and don't have the time or inclination to research the likely security implications. We crossed a point a few years ago where I rediscovered free *nixen, and decided that it was easier to make Xubuntu do what I want than it was to make macOS not do what I didn’t want. I miss simple OS X.