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Rich Jercha · Jul 7, 2003, 08:03 PM

I vote X... but what OS do you like best?
X
9 (classic)
windows xp
linux
other (post)

Patrick · Jul 7, 2003, 10:09 PM

I liked the look and feel of 7.x. Even after I upgraded to 8.1 (with my new iMac), I started using that System 7 theme with Kaleidoscope for a while. The irony is that when I was using 7.5, for a while I used an extension that created a MacOS 8 theme. I like both, but System 7 looked a bit brighter and more colorful.

And Windows XP has all the look and feel of a plastic children's toy.

TeknoTurd · Jul 7, 2003, 10:10 PM

If your talking about GUI then I vote for OSX. No other GUI's can compare in my opinion.

cpt kangarooski · Jul 7, 2003, 11:12 PM

I hate everything. If I have to like one of them best (which is kind of like preferring the guillotine to the rack, IMO) I'd say MacOS for managing to implement good UI so well, and BeOS for managing to remember that it's worthwhile to start over.

wataru · Jul 8, 2003, 01:18 AM

How are these different OS "versions?"

Severed Hand of Skywalker · Jul 8, 2003, 01:28 AM

Uh Be and NeXt perhaps!

Link · Jul 8, 2003, 03:47 AM

OK WHO WAS THE IDIOT WHO VOTED WINDOWS XP?!

engaged · Jul 8, 2003, 03:50 AM

Like you're gonna get unbiased opinions in this forum...

IUJHJSDHE · Jul 8, 2003, 06:42 AM

I think this is a bad selection.

And that posts like these are pointless on a mac forum.

BasketofPuppies · Jul 8, 2003, 07:13 AM

I voted for 9, but I gotta say that 8.6 feels about perfect to me.

Starting with 9, Steve's "stop testing interfaces on focus groups and ignore user interface guidelines" really started taking over the OS.

Not that it's perfect, but Prestissimo can fixed the incredibly stupid "proportional scroll bars only with scroll arrows on right and bottom only" issue.

The Placid Casual · Jul 8, 2003, 07:23 AM

I really liked OS 8.5. it came as standard with a 'bondi' 233 iMac, the first 'brand new' Mac I ever bought. (Always bought 'used up until then...).

It was stable, had some great features and was just cool (tm)...

I also loved NeXTStep... an awesome OS.

GoGoReggieXPowars · Jul 8, 2003, 09:38 AM

Originally posted by TeknoTurd:
If your talking about GUI then I vote for OSX. No other GUI's can compare in my opinion.

You're gonna hate what they did to it in Panther. Ugh.

Webscreamer · Jul 8, 2003, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
You're gonna hate what they did to it in Panther. Ugh.

Nah... I love Panther! Feels like you are on OS 9 too me. It just feels like a mac again...U know, that warm fuzzy feelin?!

King Bob On The Cob · Jul 8, 2003, 11:17 AM

Originally posted by Webscreamer:
Nah... I love Panther! Feels like you are on OS 9 too me. It just feels like a mac again...U know, that warm fuzzy feelin?!

Feels dirty to me. Needs to either be grey or white. Not the inverted stripes crap they use now. And since everything on OS X has been made to look good on white. Go with white.

wdlove · Jul 8, 2003, 11:24 AM

For now I'm a Mac OS 9 person, able to do what I want without any help. Will stay with 9 till I get my G5!

Paco500 · Jul 8, 2003, 11:35 AM

For those that are hot on NeXTSTEP, what was it that appealed to you? Or more specifically, what was it that appealed to you so much that you call it your favorite? I had a NeXTSation and enjoyed using it, but much like BeOS, it felt unpolished and not quite finished. It was just too hard to complete too many tasks. Configuration was cumbersome, finding software to get done what I wanted to get done was cumbersome. Finding compatible hardware was a challenge.

Both BeOS and NeXTSTEP seemed to me to have potential leaking out of their ears, but were never fully implemented, at least beyond thier core competencies. NeXT was, I am told, a dream to develop for, but I'm not a developer. BeOS was goos at doing things really fast, but not much else. I loved the NeXT UI, and there are somethings I wish were available on the Mac (the menu's were nice), but on the whole, it was a neat thing to mess with (as was Be) but neither had the juice to ever make them my main OS.

GoGoReggieXPowars · Jul 8, 2003, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by Webscreamer:
Nah... I love Panther! Feels like you are on OS 9 too me.

Um, no, I've been using OSX for a good year now. What I don't like about the Panther preview that I saw:
selecting icons puts a big square block around the icon, like the transparency mask is broken, it looks really bad;

the labels change the colour of the text area where the name of the file/folder is instead of the icon itself, it looks really bad;

the text area of file/folder name is big and puffy, it looks really bad. On top of that, as pointed out in a thread over in OSX General, it's hard to tell when a folder is selected if your label and selection colour are set to the same thing.

OSX was supposed to be about being slick and tidy, now they're trying to puff it up like XP's default theme, and I don't like it.

gerbnl · Jul 8, 2003, 01:46 PM

Originally posted by Rich Jercha:
I vote X... but what OS do you like best?

For sentimetal reasons i had to vote 'other: VMS'

but really, nowadays, even i have to admit that X is a much more practical choice...

mitchell_pgh · Jul 8, 2003, 02:38 PM

I'm an OS 6 fan.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about this "multi-tasking" business! Do we REALLY need multiple applications ALL running at the SAME time!

You can only use one App at a time. Who even has the RAM for that crap!

These polls are so silly, next you are going to have a poll that asks if color screens are worth the extra money... We all know the answer to that one... It's like Apple and their constant pushing of color CRTs on us or something!!!

There is also NO F@#%ing way I'm moving away from the 5.25 disks... Another technology Apple is pushing on me...

DOWN WITH 3.5" floppy disks!!!

benb · Jul 8, 2003, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
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Funny, I like everything you don't. Maybe I'm Steve's bastard child or something.

Fyre4ce · Jul 8, 2003, 05:26 PM

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I'm an OS 6 fan.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing about this "multi-tasking" business! Do we REALLY need multiple applications ALL running at the SAME time!

You can only use one App at a time. Who even has the RAM for that crap!

These polls are so silly, next you are going to have a poll that asks if color screens are worth the extra money... We all know the answer to that one... It's like Apple and their constant pushing of color CRTs on us or something!!!

There is also NO F@#%ing way I'm moving away from the 5.25 disks... Another technology Apple is pushing on me...

DOWN WITH 3.5" floppy disks!!!

You son of a bitch! Long live the Multi-Finder!

Superchicken · Jul 8, 2003, 06:17 PM

I'm in OS 9 now for the speed factor... once I get a new Mac though I'll be zipping around in panther

ReggieX · Jul 8, 2003, 07:55 PM

Originally posted by benb:
Funny, I like everything you don't. Maybe I'm Steve's bastard child or something.

It was in this thread: http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=166880

if anyone missed the pics:

I think it looks and works terrible. Here's LabelsX (the old way):