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What OSes are you using on your PPC systems

ScreenSavers said:
Switching to Windows is ok I guess. As an owner of almost 200 computers, Windows 10 has its issues, and they’re pretty serious. I love my 2015 maxed out MBP on Mojave and I’ll keep it it unless something incredible comes this year. But I have plenty of PPC macs (so I can stay in this thread). In fact, the mail should bring the untested Titanium G4 I got on eBay in a few minutes. I’ve never used a Titanium PowerBook before.
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Virtualization and Linux sideloading are gonna be great things.

If OS 10.15 and the 2019 MBP are actually a push towards function over form, I may return.
 
DualBoot Leopard/Tiger(/w Classic) on G4/G5 (Powerbooks G4, PM-MDD, PM G4, iMacG5)
DualBoot os9.22/Tiger on G3 (iMac-G3, Clamshell-FW, iBook-G3-Snow, PM B&W) and on some G4s (iMacG4, CubeG4, PM-Sawtooth/DA)
DualBoot os9.22/Panther or Jaguar on early Clamshells w/o FW and early iMacG3 (Bondi/FruitColors-TrayLoader)
Windows-Emulation with VirtualPC: Win98/Win2k (with os9), Win2k/WinXP-Fundamentals (with OS X)
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Beyond PPC: Lion on my squad of white c2duo-iMacs (mainly used for RDP-Connections in a WindowsServer-environment) and ElCapitan on my/our mission critical intel-Macs (early-2008 15" MBP A1260 and mid-2012 15" MBP-9,1 // c2duo 2009 white Mac mini)
Virtualization: VMware Fusion: Win7pro, WinXP, Win2k; Ubuntu; LeopardServer)
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all stuff connects quit nice using:
- Office:mac 2004/2008 and Office:Win 2000
- DEVONthink Office (Tiger/Leopard/beyond Leopard)
- webDAV (os9: Goliath; OS X: inbuild "Connect with Server")
- ScreenSharing / RDP / VNC (os9)
- FileSharing: os9 <> Tiger/Leopard (AFP); PPC(Tiger/Leopard) <> ElCap (SMB); iOS <> AFP/SMP (using 'iFiles')
- IMAP-email (os9 with Classilla)
- Print-To-PDF: os9/OSX/Win
 
ScreenSavers said:
You didn’t like Mavericks? I always felt it ran faster and Yosemite was a disaster so it had a lot of fans.
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I know that was not directed at me, but Mavericks is a version of OS X that has earned my ire.

Mavericks introduced a SAMBA (SMB) 2 filesharing bug. Since SMB is what later versions use to connect to shares, particularly Windows shares, this bug is very irritating. The bug only allows you to stay connected to a server share for 24 hours. After that anytime one wants to save an InDesign file over the network - instant crash.

Disconnecting from the share and reloading the share does not fix it. Only restarting the damn Mac fixes it. The workaround is use SMB1, (CIFS) to force a SLOWER connection! This is extremely frustrating when 90% of the documents I used to deal with were InDesign files.

Yosemite did solve this problem, but I have to laugh. Windows, server and client, have had proper SAMBA for 20 years or more. It took Apple that long (with Yosemite) to finally implement the same SAMBA sharing that everyone else was using.

Honorable mention is OS X Lion. Lion took minimum Finder window size away. Go ahead and try it. Take a Finder window and see how small you can size it. Then compare to how small you can go on an SL or Leopard Mac.

You have to use an Applescript to go any lower and if you try to adjust after that, boom, it defaults back up to that minimum window size.

This and the exchange of tags for labels also drives me insane. Thank God there's XtraFinder that shows you the old labels. Without it's I'd be insane by this point.

Apple has systematically removed small little touches to the OS since Snow Leopard that have reduced it's usefulness to me.

I could go on (SIP) but that's enough at the moment.
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ScreenSavers said:
Switching to Windows is ok I guess. As an owner of almost 200 computers, Windows 10 has its issues, and they’re pretty serious. I love my 2015 maxed out MBP on Mojave and I’ll keep it it unless something incredible comes this year. But I have plenty of PPC macs (so I can stay in this thread). In fact, the mail should bring the untested Titanium G4 I got on eBay in a few minutes. I’ve never used a Titanium PowerBook before.
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I liked Windows 7 when it was in beta. Still do. I have a Thinkpad running 7 and no plans to update it.

I used to like Windows 10, but then all those updates you can't control started happening and that was it there for me.

As my PowerPC and older Intels eventually age out I'm wondering what will be next for me.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
I believe all that is courtesy of the "Mountain Leopard" theme.
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I would love to find a Snow Leopard theme for Sierra and High Sierra. As it is, I run the LucidaGrande hack for the UI/Finger on the one Sierra machine I have, but it would be dynamite to completely run an all Snow Leopard theme.

Instead, what I usually find are themes aspiring to mimic the look and feel of later OSes, which isn't much help when wanting to go for a legacy look and feel.
 
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B S Magnet said:
I would love to find a Snow Leopard theme for Sierra and High Sierra. As it is, I run the LucidaGrande hack for the UI/Finger on the one Sierra machine I have, but it would be dynamite to completely run an all Snow Leopard theme.

Instead, what I usually find are themes aspiring to mimic the look and feel of later OSes, which isn't much help when wanting to go for a legacy look and feel.
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This thread may be of some use to you...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/manual-tiger-theming.2118272/

(To this day, I still haven't gotten around to really giving Theme Park a shot...)
 
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this one is the most beautiful form factor PowerBook.
Only which I could have mines run without fan starting every time after bit of work…
 
z970mp said:
"Waterfox" is just TenFourFox with a rename and an icon change. Same goes for Leopard-Webkit.

The rest is just a mixture of Mountain Leopard and clever renaming, icon swapping, and background setting. :D

I would have included the "Launchpad" icon as well next to the Mac App Store, but the Dashboard icon did not want to change to the Launchpad one for some reason, no matter how many times I reinstalled the ML icon theme.

Mountain Lion is in my opinion, the last great OS X. Or rather, the last OS X worth bothering with, period. Seems fitting it would go on the last great Mac, or at least one of them.
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I keep an unsupported install of Mountain Lion on one of my Macbook 4,1s. It's a blazing fast monster with 6gb of RAM and an SSD drive.
 
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