Due to my disappointment with Apple's direction (especially since roughly 2016), I opted not to upgrade my aging 2013 MacBook Air and 2013 Mac Pro with new Macs, instead switching to a Microsoft Surface Pro (running Windows 10) and a custom Ryzen 3900X build (which runs both Windows 10 and FreeBSD). The user interface also gradually started adopting more iOS influences, which I think take away from the desktop experience. Then came the Tim Cook era, and with it came the gradual locking down of the Mac, both in terms of hardware (for example, the soldering of formerly upgradable components such as RAM and storage) and software (for example, notarization). It felt much more pleasant than Windows of the era (though I admit I liked Windows 7), and the desktop environments for Linux and the BSDs simply didn't compare.
It was a nice marriage of NeXT technology and an updated version of the venerable Macintosh user interface.
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In my opinion Mac OS X peaked at Snow Leopard in fact, I'd be comfortable using Snow Leopard (or even Tiger) as my daily driver today if it supported current hardware and if there were a modern web browser for it. It also provided me a Unix shell whenever I needed it. It had a well-designed user interface, and most applications conformed to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Mac OS X in the 2000s to me was heads-and-shoulders better than the competition. I've remained a Mac OS X user from Tiger all the way to Mojave. I switched from a Windows XP/FreeBSD dual boot configuration to Mac OS X Tiger back in 2006 when I bought my first modern Mac, a Core Duo MacBook. My feelings about Mac OS X are similar to the author's.
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