<story><title>Linux is Making Apple Great Again</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/linux-is-making-apple-great-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>As someone who’s used macOS since the early betas I really don’t understand this perpetual meme that the early versions were so good and it’s all locked-down rubbish now. Seems more like faulty memory mixed with a general tendency to think that everything was better ‘back in my day’.&lt;p&gt;Every version had its bugs at release and were mostly fixed after a few point releases. If I recall, the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard, and that was only because 10.5 Leper was so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>madeofpalk</author><text>&amp;gt; the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard&lt;p&gt;Snow Leopard had a bug where using the guest account would wipe the data from the main account.</text></comment>
<story><title>Linux is Making Apple Great Again</title><url>https://jasoneckert.github.io/myblog/linux-is-making-apple-great-again/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>As someone who’s used macOS since the early betas I really don’t understand this perpetual meme that the early versions were so good and it’s all locked-down rubbish now. Seems more like faulty memory mixed with a general tendency to think that everything was better ‘back in my day’.&lt;p&gt;Every version had its bugs at release and were mostly fixed after a few point releases. If I recall, the only one that was fine from the start was 10.6 Snow Leopard, and that was only because 10.5 Leper was so bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pram</author><text>I’ve long assumed it’s because it also coincidentally lines up with the Intel Macs, and especially the MacBook Air. Which was probably a lot of people’s first Mac ever. It was definitely an upgrade over Leopard.&lt;p&gt;I had started using OSX with Jaguar on my G4 PowerBook and Snow Leopard doesn’t stand out in my mind. I liked Lion more because it had full disk encryption and AirDrop.</text></comment>