What was the best OS X released since 10.7 in your experience?

[souko]

I liked El Capitan, because of stability; but Sierra gave me some features, that are usefull to me.
High Sierra is good for me too, but root vulnerability pushed this os down in my experience.

What is the reason for choosing macOS, which you have chosen?

 

[pitbull60077]

so far I have liked pretty much all the os releases since snow leopard since I have had an apple desktop since 2010. Windows Vista was the straw that broke the camel's back for me with windows. Have to use a windows laptop to program my digital ham radios but that is all I use it for now that I have my iMac and MacBook Pro.

 

[Project Alice]

hard to say for me as I've been out of the intel Mac game for years until a few months ago. I've been on 10.5 and 10.4 with PPC Macs (and PCs for everything else). I now have a 2008 Mac Pro and a 2009 MacBook both with High Sierra. Sierra 10.12 before that. The last x86 Mac OS I used was 10.8. I honestly hate this yearly release cycle and I think Mac OS has gone way downhill in compared to the "olden days" of 10.4 and 10.5. I still like it better than windows, but if I had a way to use an older version of Mac OS X securely in this modern time I would. Obviously I can't, so I just update and hope apple comes to their senses one of these days and puts the amount of work into Mac OS they used to, instead of giving their all to iOS.

 

[MacGizmo]

With the exception of Lion, I've found every release to be better than the previous.

 

[dogslobber]

Windows 10.

 

[Eithanius]

10.11 El Cap... It would have been better if not because of Jony Idiot's crappy UI. Else I would gladly fall back to 10.9 Mavericks...

 

[flowrider]

Windows 10.

Party Pooper

I've found every release to be better than the previous.

Me Too

Lou

 

[dogslobber]

Party Pooper

Oh no. Quite the opposite because Windows 10 is all things that OS X should have been before Apple lost their way. After Snow Leopard the lean Mac OS fell by the wayside leaving us with a bloated monstrosity called High Sierra which needs 4GB of RAM just to get booted and ready for action. The windowing system in Mac OS is also bloated and very slow on older hardware. That same older hardware that Windows 10 flies on. Those older machines are given a new lease of life running Windows 10 for free after Apple casts them adrift.

 

[sammy2066]

Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) have been the best OS X releases for me so far - both have included productivity and other features I actually use. Every release since then (notwithstanding under-the-hood optimizations) has not included a single feature/enhancement that I can even remotely remember being useful in any material way.

 

[MIKX]

Mavericks 10.9.5 has been rock solid for me for ages. I do have High Sierra & High Sierra on separate HDs .. Sierra is stable and better than both Yosemite & El Capitan IMHO.
High Sierra has has a surprising number of bugs since first official release but undoubtedly will get better in future releases but I'll wait it out until I feel I can trust it with all of my daily work requrements.

 

[pitbull60077]

I have been using High Sierra now for about a month for around 5 to 8 hours a day and so far have not encountered any issues with it. my MacBook pro only has a standard hd and 4gb of ram too, considering upgrading the drive to a ssd and maybe doubling the ram but since it works well the way it is, i kinda am in no hurry to do so at the moment.

 

[Fishrrman]

10.8.5 "Mountain Lion" (for older Macs with platter-based hard drives)
10.11.6 "El Capitan" (for newer Macs with fusion drives or SSDs).

 

[cfurlin]

With the exception of Lion, I've found every release to be better than the previous.

Same here. High Sierra.

Windows 10.

You do realize where you are in the space/time continuum, yes?

 

[MacDawg]

Oh no. Quite the opposite because Windows 10 is all things that OS X should have been before Apple lost their way. After Snow Leopard the lean Mac OS fell by the wayside leaving us with a bloated monstrosity called High Sierra which needs 4GB of RAM just to get booted and ready for action. The windowing system in Mac OS is also bloated and very slow on older hardware. That same older hardware that Windows 10 flies on. Those older machines are given a new lease of life running Windows 10 for free after Apple casts them adrift.

LOL, I have 2 Dell computers on my desk at work running Windows 10 with 16GB RAM and SSDs (1 all in one, 1 laptop)
And yet, I do all my work on my 2011 MacBook Air with 4GB RAM running High Sierra
Different strokes for different folks I suppose

I too have found each new macOS to be a seamless transition for me
So much so I can't distinguish one from the other

 

[Guy Clark]

Although I have voted macOS Sierra the best is not listed and that is Snow Leopard.

 

[Project Alice]

Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) have been the best OS X releases for me so far - both have included productivity and other features I actually use. Everything release since (notwithstanding under-the-hood optimizations) have not included a single feature/enhancement that I can even remotely remember being useful in any material way.

I agree. Once leopard came out, there hasn't really been anything useful. Between time machine, and spaces, theres not really anything I care about. I'm typing this on a 15" PowerBook G4 running 10.5, I've been using this thing for the past month as my main laptop (I do have various other machines) this thing has made me realize how great Mac OS X used to be. I have SL 10.6 on a 2006 iMac, that thing runs amazing. 10.6 takes everything good from 10.5 and makes it even more buttery smooth. Honestly the ugly flat UI alone makes anything newer than mavericks not as good. If 10.6 was "supported" I'd be using it on every mac I own that can run it. In the same way that I opt to use windows 7 as long as I can on PCs. Windows 10 is flat and ugly in comparison, with this god awful trend thats been going on.

 

[padams35]

Sierra. I believe it had fewer early point release issues/idiosyncrasies than either El Capitan or High Sierra had. Also the final point release of Sierra seems to be just as stable but less ram intensive than I remember the final El Cap release being. High Sierra on the other-hand felt like a rolling beta for the introduction of official eGPU/APFS support that was never quite finished or completely optimized.

With the exception of Lion, I've found every release to be better than the previous.

The refinements (Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Sierra) were all excellent. The redesigns (Lion, Yosemite) were rather bad. Fundamental transitions (Leopard (Intel), El Capitian (Metal & SSD optimizations), High Sierra (eGPU & APFS)) are fuzzier.

 

[MacGizmo]

Sierra. I believe it had fewer early point release issues/idiosyncrasies than either El Capitan or High Sierra had. Also the final point release of Sierra seems to be just as stable but less ram intensive than I remember the final El Cap release being. High Sierra on the other-hand felt like a rolling beta for the introduction of official eGPU/APFS support that was never quite finished or completely optimized.


The refinements (Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Sierra) were all excellent. The redesigns (Lion, Yosemite) were rather bad. Fundamental transitions (Leopard (Intel), El Capitian (Metal & SSD optimizations), High Sierra (eGPU & APFS)) are fuzzier.

I guess I was lucky, I never had any of the issues that seemed to plague people with any of the releases - other than Lion, which was always old-dog-slow for me.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

Yosemite for me. It was rock solid and just worked, while Mavericks, Lion, and High Sierra were horrific messes. Mountain Lion would be second best, with Sierra and then El Cap trailing behind.