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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by yourad_io on Saturday January 03, 2015 @11:22PM (#8833301)
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I stuck with 10.6 until Linux. Took a look at anything past Lion... "nope!". I despised 10.8 enough to actually downgrade my 2012 MBP to 10.6.

But as for "why update" - up until 10.6, there were performance improvements as well as useful features (subjective -I know- fine).

As for "why update nowadays" - well, 10.6 isn't really supported nowadays. (cough Java 7 cough)

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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by marssaxman on Monday January 05, 2015 @03:52PM (#8841068)
Yep, 10.6.8 was the best OS X ever, and I'd still be running it if I could.
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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by threeseed on Sunday January 04, 2015 @02:21AM (#8833722)
Blame Oracle for Java 7 not working on older OS releases.

Apple stopped maintaining Java at version 6.

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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by bondolo on Sunday January 04, 2015 @03:23AM (#8833853)
Both were Apple's choice. Apple's Java 6 relied on proprietary interfaces that were not part of the contribution to OpenJDK. Oracle could not have even recreated the Java 6 MacOS port. The other big reason was that new MacOS versions were only x64 and going to the trouble of making a 32 bit port for only obsolete OSes was a non-starter.
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