Reply #29: I've probably used every major verson of Mac OS since the first.

[HopeHoops]

I've got a Mac Mini running OS X on my desk by this Vista laptop. Both have browser windows open at this very moment. I have a few observations.

1) OS X has a lot of "why the fuck can't I do this?" issues. It has not lived up to the hype and I don't find it particularly intuitive. It does seem to behave pretty well with a two-button mouse.
2) I'm no fan of M$ and Vista has countless problems, but it is still far easier to guess how to do something you've never tried on Vista than on OS X.
3) The Amiga was way ahead of the Mac in user interface design and ease of use. Unfortunately, the company was run by a bunch of dumbshits. Shortly before the demise of Commodore, and at a time when it was essential to eliminate their image as a "game company", they hired a new CEO named "Max Toy". I shit you not.
4) As for the older versions of Mac OS, while they made M$ systems of the time look like horse-carts, the stubborn dedication to a single-button mouse eliminated any argument that it was "easy to use." Even GEOS on the C=64 was more intuitive.
5) The Pages and Numbers applications are rather pathetic excuses for a word processor and spreadsheet. You would think by now that they would have come up to speed, but I don't think they've paid any attention to either in years. Of course, M$ hasn't paid any serious attention to IE in years and even then it was a fairly weak attempt to bring IE6 in line with CSS and other standards that they not only ignored but actively rebelled against through IE 5. IE 7 hardly counts as a release version.
6) Safari is a kick ass browser but Firefox is still better.
7) The Spaces multiple-environment thing they borrowed from KDE is perhaps the best feature of OS X. You could do the same thing on the Amiga when it came out over 20 years ago (but by sliding workspaces), and KDE had it long ago, but I'm glad to see it in OS X. I don't know if Win 7 has anything similar since I haven't tried it yet, but Vista doesn't and that sucks.
8) Time Machine is a wonderful thing. I've got a dedicated drive for the Mac and I've gone back in time to restore specific versions of code. It produces some funky-ass error messages, but I haven't seen any evidence that it failed to work.
9) Xcode isn't bad, but it isn't great. The integration of SCM also leaves a lot to be desired. The debugger is seriously buggy.
10) The Mini boots really quickly and uptime for OS X is easily the best for any version of Mac OS. That's probably because of its UNIX code base. I've run a variety of UNIX machines over the years that rarely needed to be rebooted and were only shut down to be moved or for hardware maintenance. Vista seems to need a restart every once in a while just to get its head straight. My daughter's XP box seems to run forever and I've had 98 SE machines go for several months without a reboot. Win 95 made it easy - it simply crashed. I worked with almost every version of PC/M$ DOS and they were a mixed bag. If memory serves me, the stable versions were 2.2, 3.3, and 5.2. The entire 4.x thing was a tragic joke.
11) I'm hungry. It is almost noon.