I think it's absolutely what you grew up with. I grew up with 9x and vastly prefer it to the UI/UX of classic MacOS - though obviously MacOS today beats the pa

I think it's absolutely what you grew up with. I grew up with 9x and vastly prefer it to the UI/UX of classic MacOS - though obviously MacOS today beats the pants off Windows. Modern MacOS is quite clearly the ultimate winner in the Mac/Windows design wars. After Microsoft's awful Windows 8 identity crisis disaster, it unfortunately never fully recovered. The invasive ads in Windows now (I'm aware you can turn them off, the issue is they should never bloody be there to start) more than ruin the experience, as well. Looking back, nostalgia glasses fully off, I'd actually say Windows 9x's UI/UX is actually some of the best of all time, and easily beats classic - and even modern - MacOS in a number of tangible ways. Even today, in MacOS, what in the hell is up with that goddamn awful 'zoom' button? Like, it never once behaved the way I'd have liked it to, in nearly 20 years, and coming from Windows, where the button usefully makes the window fill the screen, it's behaviour was already god awful. But then in 10.7(?) they introduced this even worse behaviour of making it go to this thing called 'fullscreen mode', which makes it so when you command+tab between apps it throws you to different screens? There's a tool called 'RightZoom' that's the first app I install on any new Mac I'm using, or friend's Macs I'm setting up for them, but we shouldn't have to do that. I think the 'zoom' button was literally the only complaint I had with (at the time it was called) OSX vs. (at the time) Windows XP, which I ran in 9x/'classic' mode. No Fischer Price for me, thanks - going to Aqua was like landing in paradise compared to XP's bizarre blue plastic chunks.