thanks for all the replies and suggestions.
one of the best descriptions i got was:
"Moving from 9 to X is like trading a privately owned business for a corporation. As a private business owner you did things like you wanted. In the corporation there are preset systems in place for security and usability, and if you don't follow the system things are going to start falling apart."
that may be true, but it seems counter productive to the way (& simplicity) i was used to doing things in previous os'.
It might seem that way, but it's really not. It's just different. I agree that OS X is not as simple as OS 9 and its predecessors, but it is equally as elegant, if not moreso. After I got into OS X (OS X is what brought me to the Mac), I gained an interest in older Macs, specifically the compacts, and I have gained a tremendous respect for the group that created Macintosh. It really is amazingly simple to use, understand, and set up a network. The problem is that with such incredible simplicity comes inherent limitations, and we as computer users have outgrown those limitations, so it was time to move on.
Once you get used to how things are laid out, you will gain a new respect for OS X and for the choices Apple has made.
the "soft toilet seat look" i mentioned is more a way (most of) the designers make the interfaces look.
that sort of soft, "warm & fuzzy" edges, the way the buttons look, etc. shaded or blended gradients... rounded off corners, etc. everything looks like a puffy marshmallow.. or some gooey candy thing.
Have you seen XP? I call that a "crayola crayon" look... Yuck.
i hate the way the file "color labels" look in os x.
I do too - I don't use them. Of course, as I mentioned before, I was never an OS 9 user (until after I came to OS X) so I never got used to labels anyway.
there are things i DO like about os x... the multitasking for one, and crashing an app doesn't take the whole system down ("MOST" of the time...) but for the most part it's been a difficult transition for me.
i have to "go" with os x because all of the apps i need to use are made for it now, and i need the extra power and features.
i'll be keeping a few of my old machines around though, just to run some of the apps that never made it to os x.
Have you tried running those old apps in Classic? I have found that even the original MacWrite/MacDraw/MacPaint will run in Panther's Classic. VERY cool. I'd like to see someone try that trick on Windows XP!
thanks everyone
You're quite welcome.
Eagle
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