Interesting. I've never felt particularly strongly one way or another about the Finder and I didn't feel the changes as strongly as you and others seemed to. M

Interesting. I've never felt particularly strongly one way or another about the Finder and I didn't feel the changes as strongly as you and others seemed to. My personal GUI progression was Mac OS 7.5, RiscOS 3, Windows 9x, Mac OS 8 & 9, BeOS, KDE, Mac OS 10.3, onwards. I didn't see a significant break, but maybe it's because of the detour. It just didn't occur to me that it was anything other than a smooth transition. By the looks of things, a good number of people seem to have noticed the change, and many don't like it. I'm not sure the 'classic' way of doing things was entirely compatible with a command line interface (I get that that's what Lisa and Mac was trying to supersede). But I don't think many doubt the utility of CLIs for 'serious' modern use. Do they? One thing I do remember is that we've always had symlinks (aliases). I don't remember if they were in System 6 but they were certainly there in System 7.