Technologically speaking, I feel that OS X was a better choice (a more robust and developed platform). Qualitatively speaking, I loved everything about using Be

Technologically speaking, I feel that OS X was a better choice (a more robust and developed platform). Qualitatively speaking, I loved everything about using BeOS—how snappy it was and the way applications felt like they could be thin extensions to the filesystem. However, as someone whose youth involved waaaay too many hours tweaking files called .fvwmrc, I knew that looks are important, but skin deep. Hard to say which aesthetic I preferred. BeOS’s stock blue background, golden yellow tabs, and simple icons always made me feel “happy” even if they didn’t feel as staid and sophisticated as NeXT.