Daevad wrote in his informative and clearly stated post;Look people, it's this simple: OS X is an operating system that is an order of magnitude more complex than OS 8/9.
This, for me and I suspect many others is the crux of the issue.
Complexity is a great help when one can use it. It is a great hindrance when you don't need it.
For me that sentence puts the finger directly on the issue.
I am older, not particularly a computer geek. My uses are primarily email, web surfing, with a little Quicken thrown in cause its easier than writing and doing a check book manually.
OS X is a great operating system. Its powerful, stable, and complex.
Its also a heck of a lot more system than I need for my uses. At the rate I use it and learn it'll be another 5-6 years before I am comfortable in and confident in my knowledge and ability to use OS X, not to mention the hours of frustration trying to figure out what I did wrong while digging through some thick manual.
What I need and I suspect others do also is a simple yet elegant Operating System that can run the apps that we actually use.
I could even see a modular system which would allow one to add "Modules" as needed to expand the system to meet ones needs.
Maybe this is a "niche" that some one can exploit to build/sell an OS to those of us with with simpler needs.
I really like the MAC platform, sort of like in my youth liking Fords over Chevys, and I dislike the PC platform particularly for its complexity.
That said I intend to stick with the MAC but I need a different solution than OS X.
Tom,
There is absolutely nothing wrong with what you say here, as long as you're willing to stick with OS 9, and to live with today's technology and products. If OS 9 does everything you need it to do, that's great - it will forever be as useful as it is today on the hardware you have today. However, if you begin to expect it will always work with every new technology, be it virtual (e.g. web-based) or "real" (e.g. a new printer), then you might have problems.
To wit: there are MANY people who still use System 6 and 7 to get real work done. I still use those older OSes, but not to get "real" work done - they are only used on my toy systems.
Eagle
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