Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:10 PM UTC

SnuffBox wrote: post #69

> Web Browsers. There is no modern mainstream browser engine that works in Snow Leopard. You don't need one. You can either use RDP to a Windows Server running on a lightweight Mini PC (like I do) or use VMWare Fusion in unified mode to have a modern Chrome version seamlessly integrated into your desktop experience.

VMWare Fusion in unified mode is an option I may explore if Firefox Dynasty stops being maintained, but I know the integration wouldn't be seamless enough to satisfy me. Especially given that my web browser is the most used app on my machine, it kind of defeats the purpose of using Mavericks in the first place.

Are you daily driving Snow Leopard? I'd be interested to hear about the experience, if you have anything in particular to share.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by nailer » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 8:38 PM UTC

> Each update seemed to chip away at something I liked about the platform.

I have a MBP, 48GB RAM running today's stable version of macOS Sequoia 15.6.1

If I do cmd+space and type something it has 0 results for anything in my Documents folder. It's been that way for momnths despite all the OS updates.

macOS used to be good.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by moondev » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:07 PM UTC

kccqzy wrote: post #71

moondev wrote: post #19

Was hoping this legendary gtk themer had a mavericks theme but Yosemite is the earliest it appears. https://github.com/vinceliuice/Yosemite-gtk-theme If you want a macOS theme with insane quality on Linux this guy's work is the pinnacle.

You call that insane quality? I took a five second look at the GitHub page and I already noticed that the spacing between the three traffic light buttons is wrong. It immediately felt off.

The theme is actually correct, Apple is wrong

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by franky47 » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:21 PM UTC

> never use an outdated web browser

That part is not going to age well, as browser vendor push updates they tend to drop support for older OS versions.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by jeffrallen » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:27 PM UTC

Oh my god, I am so jealous of this guy. Please just make it stop, I want off this crazy upgrade merry-go-round.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by zer0zzz » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

I do kinda wonder if we could use these sorts of outdated setups with no internet connection offline for more things

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:30 PM UTC

franky47 wrote: post #104

> never use an outdated web browser That part is not going to age well, as browser vendor push updates they tend to drop support for older OS versions.

Upstream Firefox and Chromium dropped Mavericks ages ago. That's not what I'm using.

https://github.com/i3roly/firefox-dynasty/releases

Fully up to date port of Firefox to legacy OS X.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by selectodude » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:41 PM UTC

sillywalk wrote: post #91

> For some inexplicable reason, Apple's website does not offer a Mavericks download link. Their official list skips straight from Mountain Lion (10.8) to Yosemite (10.10). Does anybody have an idea why Mavericks isn't available from Apple? https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662#browser

Mavericks wasn’t the end of the line for any Macs. Every device that is supported in Mavericks is supported in Yosemite. Apple only makes the latest version available for any given device.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by downrightmike » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #36

I have a soft spot for Mavericks too. It’s not 100% perfect (as post notes, scroll bars have been flattened and by then sidebar item icons had lost their color), but otherwise visually its probably the closest thing possible to “perfect” Aqua era OS X. It feels very refined in several ways that the earlier versions didn’t. In my opinion the runner-up in terms of visuals is actually 10.4 Tiger, though — the dark grays…

Have you looked at https://ubuntubudgie.org/ ?

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by cosmic_cheese » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 10:05 PM UTC

downrightmike wrote: post #109

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #36

I have a soft spot for Mavericks too. It’s not 100% perfect (as post notes, scroll bars have been flattened and by then sidebar item icons had lost their color), but otherwise visually its probably the closest thing possible to “perfect” Aqua era OS X. It feels very refined in several ways that the earlier versions didn’t. In my opinion the runner-up in terms of visuals is actually 10.4 Tiger, though — the dark grays…

Have you looked at https://ubuntubudgie.org/ ?

I have. Budgie is cool, but falls into a similar bucket as elementary/Pantheon in that it’s not mac-like even if it includes certain Mac features and qualities.