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10.4 was where I started; it’s what came on the first gen white polycarb MacBook that I got in 2006. And I used that as my main machine for like eight years and
by mikepurvis 2y ago
10.4 was where I started; it’s what came on the first gen white polycarb MacBook that I got in 2006. And I used that as my main machine for like eight years and then had two different MBPs afterwards, so I saw quite a span of OS X versions, and I remember most of the changes feeling fairly iterative, at least when going just one to the next.
What was it that stuck out out to you when making such a large jump back in time?
- p_ing 2y agoOS X 10.1 - ~10.4 had a different root directory structure. Right click menu is unrecognizable. Dock behaves a bit different. The Directory Access utility (renamed to Directory Utility) contained Netinfo, the local directory, I believe sourced from NeXTStep. Lots of various other utilities were discontinued or changed into something unrecognizable. Early OS X felt like a proper UNIX distribution. Modern macOS, not so much.
- jamesy0ung 2y agoI agree, my first OS was 10.5 Leopard, and I absolutely loved its graphical design—something truly special. It also had a genuine Unix feel to it, which, as you mentioned, seems to have been lost in more recent releases.