David Elmo writes, on OS X vs. OS 9,
<You can't really tell and trust the difference from reading a book!>
Well, it's a starting point, isn't it? Especially for someone who wasn't
actually going to risk putting it on her Mac? Now why would a 9.2.2 girl
like me want to read a book like that? In addition to simple curiosity,
in the event I ever do, for whatever reason, wind up using OS X, I'd
rather read the book BEFORE, for example, I make the sudden discovery on
an OS X Mac that my dearly beloved Apple Menu -- which as a Mac Classic
die-hard I can't live without -- is GONE. ("And what in the hell is
THIS...Dock thing?") Or that now if I want to make a new folder, it's
"SHIFT-command-N" instead of just "Command-N."
I hate nasty surprises, remember? Well, by having that book, should I
ever someday find myself on OS X, I believe I've cut down the odds I'll
run into them. Does this mean I'll actually like, or love OS X like so
many of our fellow listers? I don't know and can't say since I haven't
actually used it, but if not for my OTHER issues (Beige, old peripherals,
fear of losing old files and functionality of apps I'd have to run in
Classic mode instead of what I call "REAL Classic" if I had OS X), I'm no
longer afraid of the OS itself.
By the way, if I remember correctly, you really like OS 9 better than OS
X. So why persist with an OS you don't like? Can't you wipe your HD
clean, reinstall OS 9 and go back to what you're comfortable with?
~Yersinia.
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