They’d wish. Mac OS X Tiger had a lot of great things, two years before Microsoft finally managed to drag Windows Vista (with long overdue comparable features) out to consumers. In 2005 Windows XP, Microsoft’s actual shipping OS, felt ancient by comparison.
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Is Sonoma the OSX version of Vista!
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I think you mis-spelled Lion
(like vista, Lion performance tanked hard due to it being designed with SSDs in mind whereas most of the macOS install base at that time was on hard drives. Vista tanked hard perf wise because it was really made for 1-2GB of RAM and Microsoft told vendors 512MB would be fine 2 years ahead).
Also, vista (Longhorn = LongWait) dropped a heap of features promised way back in 1994 in order to ship....
At least it's not Apple's Windows ME.
Vista was amazing compared to that wonderful train wreck.
Vista was amazing compared to that wonderful train wreck.
From my point of view the ONLY difference between Ventura and Sonoma is that Sonoma has, so far, shafted my development environment: LiveCode 9.6.3 Community.
Oh, and being able to have widgets [which I never bother with anyway] in funny places on the screens.
Oh, and being able to have widgets [which I never bother with anyway] in funny places on the screens.
it's a....beta. (problems are part of what happens in a beta). but... no interest about what happens under-the-hood?
a new OS isn't just about new features (or gimmicks lol). in which case, for me: sonoma seems faster, more stable, more polished. and yet still... a beta...
Vista was actually pretty decent all round if you ran it on capable hardware.
The big problem was Microsoft telling OEMs for years prior to Vista shipping that 256 or 512 MB of RAM would be enough, when in reality you really needed 2 gigs for it to run comfortably. As a result you'd have heaps of existing machines that were "vista ready" (stickers on them to say as much) which really... weren't.
Pre SP1 is was pretty rough with driver support too, but that's more to do with it being a major overhaul of the driver subsystem (that Windows 7 an onwards still basically use) and OEMs lagging somewhat behind on driver updates.
I remember when they said they got rid of DOS and all they did with WindowsME is hide it from the startup boot screen LOL what a failed OS.
I was working as a Front Line tech at a callcenter for Windows XP's launch, let me tell you, the calls we would get. And the rage we'd face when we had to explain that there was no direct upgrade path from ME to XP.
ME was the worst.