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It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>


Interested in hearing everybody's reasons for still using it! :-)
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In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>, "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>

I first used a Mac in 2007 when I went to university as a mature student,
I got myself a MacBook. It had 10.4 Tiger installed and I was gobsmacked
at how good it was compared to Windows!

Not long after that I picked up my first vintage Mac on eBay and had my
first experience of classic Mac OS, and was again gobsmacked at how much
nicer System 7 was when compared to my memories of using Windows 95 and
98...

I still use classic Mac OS because I enjoy the elegant simplicity of it.
The UI is fantastic when compared to other non-Windows operating systems
of the 90s; AmigaOS for example is a royal pain in the arse compared to
Mac OS.

And it's just fun, I enjoy pottering on my couple of old Macs, getting a
sense of satisfaction out of doing stuff with them. It gives me the warm
and fuzzies, bathed in a sense of nostalgia; even though I didn't
experience classic Mac Os first time around, using it transports me back
to a simpler time when the world was full of possibility. :)
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In article <vintageapplemac-1405250602030001@192.168.1.134>,
vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) wrote:

In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>, "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>

I first used a Mac in 2007 when I went to university as a mature student,
I got myself a MacBook. It had 10.4 Tiger installed and I was gobsmacked
at how good it was compared to Windows!

Not long after that I picked up my first vintage Mac on eBay and had my
first experience of classic Mac OS, and was again gobsmacked at how much nicer System 7 was when compared to my memories of using Windows 95 and
98...

I still use classic Mac OS because I enjoy the elegant simplicity of it.
The UI is fantastic when compared to other non-Windows operating systems
of the 90s; AmigaOS for example is a royal pain in the arse compared to
Mac OS.

And it's just fun, I enjoy pottering on my couple of old Macs, getting a sense of satisfaction out of doing stuff with them. It gives me the warm
and fuzzies, bathed in a sense of nostalgia; even though I didn't
experience classic Mac Os first time around, using it transports me back
to a simpler time when the world was full of possibility. :)

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

... it respects my privacy!
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On 2025-05-14 05:02:03 +0000, scole said:

In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>, "Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>

I first used a Mac in 2007 when I went to university as a mature student,
I got myself a MacBook. It had 10.4 Tiger installed and I was gobsmacked
at how good it was compared to Windows!

Not long after that I picked up my first vintage Mac on eBay and had my
first experience of classic Mac OS, and was again gobsmacked at how much nicer System 7 was when compared to my memories of using Windows 95 and
98...

I still use classic Mac OS because I enjoy the elegant simplicity of it.
The UI is fantastic when compared to other non-Windows operating systems
of the 90s; AmigaOS for example is a royal pain in the arse compared to
Mac OS.

MacOS was, and still is, far better than any of the other operating
systems, even in the quirky days of early MacOS X with it's limitations
and missing features compared to MacOS 8 and 9. Part of the reason is
simply because the original MacOS and earlier LisaOS were written as a graphical user interface from scratch for ease of use and a mouse by
people who knew what they were doing. (Although, some of that has gone
with newer versions of MacOS X packing in lots of unnecessary gimmickry
rather than fixing lonf-existing bugs!)

Windows has always been abysmal. Partly because it had to cope with
older mouse-less DOS programs and partly because Microsoft is simply
incapable of programming anything properly. It was written by tech
geeks with no understanding of normal people - the geeks love tinkering
around for hours just to get a printer to work or an app to install.

AmigaOS, AtariOS, GeOS were very clunky to use, but still better than Windows.

And it's just fun, I enjoy pottering on my couple of old Macs, getting a sense of satisfaction out of doing stuff with them. It gives me the warm
and fuzzies, bathed in a sense of nostalgia; even though I didn't
experience classic Mac Os first time around, using it transports me back
to a simpler time when the world was full of possibility. :)

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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.mac.vintage

In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>,
"Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>

Interested in hearing everybody's reasons for still using it! :-)

I'm relatively new to the vintage Mac game, I only got into it last
year. At first it was pretty centered around PowerPC OS X because that
was more immediately familiar. However, as my collection began with
iBook Clamshells, it was quickly apparent that even running Tiger with
the Shuriken mods or Panther was NOT cutting it for speed or ease of
use. Enter MacOS 9! I quickly grew to love its quirks and features. It's
a staple for dual-booting on whatever vintage machine I can get it on
(save anything 68k, where 7 is the winner). It also led to me getting
into more retro forms of internet communication - Gopher, Hotline, BBS,
and Usenet. I'm still very new - so hopefully I replied to this post correctly!
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On 2025-09-27 22:51:03 +0000, Smithwicks said:

In article <info-32B66C.16432410052025@news.individual.de>,
"Sebastian P." <info@cornica.org> wrote:

It's 2025 and I still use (Classic) Mac OS because ...

<post your response>


Interested in hearing everybody's reasons for still using it! :-)

I'm relatively new to the vintage Mac game, I only got into it last
year. At first it was pretty centered around PowerPC OS X because that
was more immediately familiar. However, as my collection began with
iBook Clamshells, it was quickly apparent that even running Tiger with
the Shuriken mods or Panther was NOT cutting it for speed or ease of
use. Enter MacOS 9! I quickly grew to love its quirks and features. It's
a staple for dual-booting on whatever vintage machine I can get it on
(save anything 68k, where 7 is the winner). It also led to me getting
into more retro forms of internet communication - Gopher, Hotline, BBS,
and Usenet. I'm still very new - so hopefully I replied to this post correctly!

I don't use Classic per se but I use Classic apps on my Tiger OSX. I
have it set up to mimic the look of OS 9 as much as possible through
the use of extensions like FruitMenu and Labels X which I've
unfortunately lost the password to so if I ever did a reinstall from
scratch I'd lose that.

I can boot up in Classic (OS9) if I desire but there doesn't seem to be
much point in it.

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