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Re:Why use old computers and operating systems? by smoldesu on Friday March 19, 2021 @08:23PM (#26519551)
I'm very much in agreement. Classic MacOS had a lot of great ideas, and it fit much better with Apple's unapologetic rhetoric. The switch to Unix was cool, but it represented a larger conflict of interests that made OSX and onward feel... wrong.
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Re:Why use old computers and operating systems? by Mikhail_Edoshin on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:56AM (#26521919)
They employed right principles. Stability, for example or direct control.

I'm reading the "Patterns" book by Christopher Alexander, it's about architectural patterns that feel human and it very much relates to what's happening in the UI/UX area. E.g. a lot of traffic around tends to move people inside houses as they feel the outside is not theirs anymore.

Similarly UI that jumps around or reduces the interaction to answering questions also changes the behavior of users as they feel powerless. The current Mac OS is less guilty in this aspect, I guess, I'm ranting about the overall trend.

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