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On 2025-05-14 05:02:03 +0000, scole said:
> In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>, "Sebastian P."
> <info@cornica.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...
>> 
>> <post your response>
> 
> I first used a Mac in 2007 when I went to university as a mature student,
> I got myself a MacBook. It had 10.4 Tiger installed and I was gobsmacked
> at how good it was compared to Windows!
> 
> Not long after that I picked up my first vintage Mac on eBay and had my
> first experience of classic Mac OS, and was again gobsmacked at how much
> nicer System 7 was when compared to my memories of using Windows 95 and
> 98...
> 
> I still use classic Mac OS because I enjoy the elegant simplicity of it.
> The UI is fantastic when compared to other non-Windows operating systems
> of the 90s; AmigaOS for example is a royal pain in the arse compared to
> Mac OS.

MacOS was, and still is, far better than any of the other operating 
systems, even in the quirky days of early MacOS X with it's limitations 
and missing features compared to MacOS 8 and 9. Part of the reason is 
simply because the original MacOS and earlier LisaOS were written as a 
graphical user interface from scratch for ease of use and a mouse by 
people who knew what they were doing. (Although, some of that has gone 
with newer versions of MacOS X packing in lots of unnecessary gimmickry 
rather than fixing lonf-existing bugs!)

Windows has always been abysmal. Partly because it had to cope with 
older mouse-less DOS programs and partly because Microsoft is simply 
incapable of programming anything properly. It was written by tech 
geeks with no understanding of normal people - the geeks love tinkering 
around for hours just to get a printer to work or an app to install.

AmigaOS, AtariOS, GeOS were very clunky to use, but still better than Windows.



> And it's just fun, I enjoy pottering on my couple of old Macs, getting a
> sense of satisfaction out of doing stuff with them. It gives me the warm
> and fuzzies, bathed in a sense of nostalgia; even though I didn't
> experience classic Mac Os first time around, using it transports me back
> to a simpler time when the world was full of possibility. :)