Many of the UI elements, such as the Dock, are more subdued. Anti-aliasing made things harder to read, especially on LCDs, even with the unnaturally large fonts in the Finder many of the UI elements, including the aqua ones, often distracted the eye.īut in 10.2 (Jaguar), much has changed.
The entire Mac OS X UI - while eminently "lickable," like no OS before it - was tiring to look at. This improved significantly in 10.1, but Mac OS v9.2 still seemed faster. In 10.0, performance was bad, even on G4s. In many places in the OS, you can't merely hit "return" in an active dialog to select the default button (if there is a default button at all), or "escape" to cancel.īut these problems were just the beginning. The file dialogs, stuck in a column view, are, in my opinion, a glaring design flaw. Many still don't work right, including cmd+arrow keys to open and close arrows in Finder windows (half works: cmd+opt+arrow should open or close all hierarchical folders) and in dialogs with progress bars, such as file copying (doesn't work). Many things in the interface just didn't work at all, or as well as, they did in Mac OS. Mac OS X v10.0 was a disappointment to me, and many loyalists to Mac OS. I sit in front of this darned computer for most of my waking hours, and if I am not comfortable with it, then it's no good. I love Mac OS because of its ease of use and applications and interface and all of the little things.
But it was different enough that I wasn't comfortable in it. But as Mac OS X started to become a reality, it became clear that this was not going to be Mac OS.
I like Mac OS X v10.2 enough that it may soon become my primary OS.įrom the day Apple acquired NeXT, and Rhapsody was announced, I was excited about the prospect of a "modern operating system" (read: Unix) that would look and act like my beloved Mac OS. Mac OS - not Mac OS X, which is a different OS - in its various iterations has been my OS of choice for over 15 years, and I have not looked fondly on the day that streak ends.