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On 2025-01-11 12:30:59 +0000, Liz Tuddenham said:

> D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
> 
>> article by James Thomson January 4, 2025
>> https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-
>> time/
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th
>> of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X
>> to the world at Macworld Expo.
>> 
>> Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know
>> the Dock, it's been at the bottom of your Mac screen for what feels like
>> forever (if you keep it in the correct location, anyway).
> 
> 
> I'm sorry to add a note of dissent, but the Dock was one of the main
> things which made me decide not to install OSX.  The Launcher and
> Windowshade were far more useful and intuitive - things stayed where you
> put them so your fingers always knew where to find them.  That is why I
> am still using a Beige G3 with OS 8.6 as my main office machine.

You can get Dock apps for Classic versions of MacOS. "A-Dock" is 
perhaps the best of them.
<http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/a-dock-301>




> Before OSX, the Mac community used to ridicule Windows for having such a
> user-unfriendly interface where things disappeared and had to be
> chased-after to get them back.  Where you had to guess which icon
> represented what you wanted and then wait until the mouseover told you
> it was the wrong one.  Then OSX came along, with all those
> counter-intuitive things built-in and, worse still, refused to let the
> user remove them.
> 
> I have been forced to use an OSX machine for Web browsing, but it was
> driving me insane until I stuck the Dock where it wouldn't open by
> accident and then left an open file (which I called "Launcher") across
> the boittom of the Desktop with the icons *and names* of the items I
> most use parked in it in a logical order.
> 
> I hate the Dock with a vengeance, it has spoilt the Mac platform for me.