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Poll: Favorite OS?
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I think Tiger was the best, because it was so smooth and clean. Loved the dock, never had a crash and everything was lightning fast. 10.5.8 comes close after. Not early Leopard builds...they were pretty flimsy. I can see SL going the same way; bad start, maturing into a very fine OS.
Tiger for me
Its was the first version of OS X that I used and thought it was great.
There have been some great improvements since, but the way Apple totally change some things with each release make it very frustrating
Its was the first version of OS X that I used and thought it was great.
There have been some great improvements since, but the way Apple totally change some things with each release make it very frustrating
Tiger for me also, loved everything about it, Leopard would've been better if it wasn't for Apple whoring coverflow into almost every program imaginable
I switch with Panther and that was solid, Tiger came along as we very good. I then moved to the Intel side of the transition and Tiger went downhill and Leopard did improve things but was still dodgy for quite a while. Leopard matured and then Snow Leopard has come along. For me Snow Leopard feels like the first OS release that makes me feel the transition is complete.
My order of preference with least favourite first:
Tiger (Intel - Early)
Panther
Leopard (Intel - Early)
Tiger (PPC) - Tiger (Intel - Very late)
Leopard (Intel - Late)
Snow Leopard
My order of preference with least favourite first:
Tiger (Intel - Early)
Panther
Leopard (Intel - Early)
Tiger (PPC) - Tiger (Intel - Very late)
Leopard (Intel - Late)
Snow Leopard
I think I feel the exact same way because I converted with a 15" PowerBook with Panther installed. I do think that Snow Leopard is my favorite version of OS X so far.
Yeah... 10.2 was a GIANT update. I remember how excited I was seeing all the leaked screenshots on ThinkSecret.com.... ahh... those were the days.
I definitely think Snow Leopard is my favorite due to all the features/speed.
My Top three favs are: 1. Snow Leopard 2. Tiger 3. Leopard
I converted with using Tiger (which I think was revolutionary) but when Leopard was introduced, it was buggy/slow. Snow Leopard is the best of both worlds (fast as Tiger but with most features).
But I still am nostalgic whenever I see Tiger (the Aqua wallpaper, classic 2-D dock, faint pinstripes)!
My Top three favs are: 1. Snow Leopard 2. Tiger 3. Leopard
I converted with using Tiger (which I think was revolutionary) but when Leopard was introduced, it was buggy/slow. Snow Leopard is the best of both worlds (fast as Tiger but with most features).
But I still am nostalgic whenever I see Tiger (the Aqua wallpaper, classic 2-D dock, faint pinstripes)!
I think 10.2 was the most significant OS, before that OS X hadn't quite found its feet IMO.
I have only had Leopard and Snow Leopard, but Leopard was terrible for me when it first came out and Snow Leopard is pretty much what Leopard should have been IMO.
I have only had Leopard and Snow Leopard, but Leopard was terrible for me when it first came out and Snow Leopard is pretty much what Leopard should have been IMO.
Slackware 1.0
It came on 20-odd diskettes, that we downloaded over night over the (shared) 64kbit/s University network downlink from some FTP-mirror.
Aah, those where the days...
It came on 20-odd diskettes, that we downloaded over night over the (shared) 64kbit/s University network downlink from some FTP-mirror.
Aah, those where the days...
Running Tiger on my Mac Pro was slow... then upgrading to 10.5 Leopard, it got faster...
I don't get where you're saying Leopard was slow and Tiger was fast... hmm.
The biggest gripe of mine was how they completely crippled Spotlight in Leopard... Tiger's Spotlight was much better. It is now fixed in Snow Leopard! Horray Apple!
I've only been here since 10.3, but my favourite Mac OS X is already 10.6. I'm sure the relevant debates will rage forever and I don't want to rake them over, but I've almost no use for and absolutely no interest in most of the headline features since 10.3.
To my mind, it's only in 10.6 that Spotlight actually becomes slightly helpful (thanks to being able to set the Finder to search the current folder only by default) and I've no interest in the Dashboard whatsoever, so 10.4 wasn't that helpful for me. 10.5's Quick Look and Time Machine are really great features that I'm a big fan of, but I'm with the "translucent menubar is a capricious menace" group, and the 3d dock is another thing that reeks of change for the sake of it. Though it doesn't actually bother me.
10.6 finally makes window minimisation work the way it should, with minimised windows showing up in Exposé and not slowly cramping your entire dock if you wish them not to. It'd still be nice to be able to specify that utility windows should appear in Exposé rather than vanishing into nothing, especially when some idiotic software presents a modal yes/no prompt that then vanishes every time I try to reveal all windows.
I'm not sure about the new Exposé layout yet though. I understand the design principle: giving windows a more uniform amount of display real estate in Exposé mode is smart because smaller windows tend to have important details that are smaller. It does feel like a lot of wasted screen space though, especially when two, tall windows are placed top and bottom rather than left and right.
Oh, and the best bonus: Cheetah 3d renders take about 25% less time in Snow Leopard than in Leopard. I'm assuming some smarter stuff has gone into multicore task scheduling while they were down there working in Grand Central and OpenCL.
I've also no idea when they introduced it, but I definitely wouldn't go back to a time when I had to pay just for QuickTime to be willing to go fullscreen. I wouldn't mind trimming a bunch of the useless bits from iTunes, though. I'm still having to drop to the console to remove the 'genres' column (really, does anybody actually want that? If you like multiple genres you probably don't like pigeonholing, if you like just one then why waste the space?) and iTunes store links.
Xcode keeps getting better too. And updates to that tend to be OS tied.
EDIT: non-Mac, I vote RISC OS.
To my mind, it's only in 10.6 that Spotlight actually becomes slightly helpful (thanks to being able to set the Finder to search the current folder only by default) and I've no interest in the Dashboard whatsoever, so 10.4 wasn't that helpful for me. 10.5's Quick Look and Time Machine are really great features that I'm a big fan of, but I'm with the "translucent menubar is a capricious menace" group, and the 3d dock is another thing that reeks of change for the sake of it. Though it doesn't actually bother me.
10.6 finally makes window minimisation work the way it should, with minimised windows showing up in Exposé and not slowly cramping your entire dock if you wish them not to. It'd still be nice to be able to specify that utility windows should appear in Exposé rather than vanishing into nothing, especially when some idiotic software presents a modal yes/no prompt that then vanishes every time I try to reveal all windows.
I'm not sure about the new Exposé layout yet though. I understand the design principle: giving windows a more uniform amount of display real estate in Exposé mode is smart because smaller windows tend to have important details that are smaller. It does feel like a lot of wasted screen space though, especially when two, tall windows are placed top and bottom rather than left and right.
Oh, and the best bonus: Cheetah 3d renders take about 25% less time in Snow Leopard than in Leopard. I'm assuming some smarter stuff has gone into multicore task scheduling while they were down there working in Grand Central and OpenCL.
I've also no idea when they introduced it, but I definitely wouldn't go back to a time when I had to pay just for QuickTime to be willing to go fullscreen. I wouldn't mind trimming a bunch of the useless bits from iTunes, though. I'm still having to drop to the console to remove the 'genres' column (really, does anybody actually want that? If you like multiple genres you probably don't like pigeonholing, if you like just one then why waste the space?) and iTunes store links.
Xcode keeps getting better too. And updates to that tend to be OS tied.
EDIT: non-Mac, I vote RISC OS.