What have you done with a PowerPC today?

[maître]

Since I bring my own laptop to work now I found myself using a 12-inch PowerBook pretty often again. It runs Tiger, I just connect it to my 1920x1200 main display and keep it docked like that for a couple of days.
I had some weird issue a couple months back where UI would be very slow in say TFF but not in IceweaselPPC, so I jumped between them when I needed TLS 1.3; but since I cleaned all of the old data and switched to Aquafox it's been very good.
I also dropped using MacPorts in favor of pkgsrc packages, the selection is good and the software is pretty up-to-date. In fact, I've compiled fortune and a new version of less, and planning to switch my blog from Hugo to mkws.sh. I wanted to maybe continue using Hugo but it's a bit complicated, and Go on PowerPC is no go.
I bought a cheap gyro USB remote, the buttons don't work well with Front Row and mplayer, but watching DVDs on a TV is a breeze. Again, best DVD player hands down.
In short, somehow using this machine feels fresh every time!

Posting from my favorite computer.

 

[MarkC426]

Apologies for my ignorant question….
But how did you create the text in the body of your message with the box behind (i.e. ‘fortune, less’)?

 

[wm2]

I have a very good condition Powerbook DLSD with SSD and I tested MorphOS extensively with it. The Wayfarer web browser and the Iris mail is very very cool but the lack of multimedia and office apps requires a dual boot with OS X. I've seen videos where someone watched 720p content easily using MorphOS/MPlayer. This is not entirely true I think (I mean with Powerbook). However, I use MorphOS much more than OSX.

 

[barracuda156]

I have a very good condition Powerbook DLSD with SSD and I tested MorphOS extensively with it. The Wayfarer web browser and the Iris mail is very very cool but the lack of multimedia and office apps requires a dual boot with OS X. I've seen videos where someone watched 720p content easily using MorphOS/MPlayer. This is not entirely true I think (I mean with Powerbook). However, I use MorphOS much more than OSX.

I am pretty sure that you won’t get any noticeable difference in performance between the same app on different OS, provided you use the same GPU. At least if the app was written decently with official support for OS in question. (Our hacked MPV may perform worse, for example, but mplayer on macOS is not hacked.)