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Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by delta_p_delta_x »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

Strictly speaking, Mavericks (and Mountain Lion and Lion before it) were already some way through abandoning Aqua. Lion dropped the beautiful blue scroll bars that previous OS Xs had, replaced the pill-shaped buttons with rounded rectangles, and somewhat flattened the overall UI as well, though not to the extent that Yosemite did.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by terhechte »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

You needed to own a "QuickTime Pro" license in order to enable these features. I used to do all my simple video editing with it until they shelved it.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by wsc981 »

I noticed the app section included VPN.

Recently I've been looking for some VPN solution and found that many are quite expensive, though often you get a decent enough discount if you subscribe for like a year or longer. Also, I believe many services are probably not trustworthy (regardless of their claims).

A very affordable alternative is a DigitalOcean droplet with PiHole. You can connect with this VPN with Wireguard, which will probably work just fine on Mavericks. Been using this now for a couple of months and no issues. My costs are probably around 3-4 USD per month, but I don't use VPN all the time.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by boobsbr »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

I'm still running El Capitan on my 2015 Air.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by xeviousr »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

We could benefit from a site that describes the best OS for any hardware and has scripts and instructions for how to mod them to be more efficient and up-to-date, with someone assigned to maintaining patches and tools for basic functionality you might need, but also having standalone, airgapped versions of each for longevity.

Right now, this info is dispersed everywhere and it’s not the primary intent of archival sites to provide this.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by nutjob2 »

This is way I feel, but my last stop is 10.15 (Catalina) having started with 3.2. Modern macOS is just trash.

My goal over the longer term is to fully migrate to Android, especially desktop mode. There are several reasons for this but maybe the fact that given the typical hardware for Android means it's less likely suffer the terminal bloat of desktop systems.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by oreilles »

Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

I would have went for Catalina.

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

terhechte wrote: post #12
Amorymeltzer wrote: post #10

In terms of the "Why Mavericks?" section, >I knew I wanted an operating system from before Apple abandoned the Aqua design language. I suppose it depends on your definition, but that likely does mean Mavericks is the latest available. For my money though, El Capitan (10.11 to Mavericks' 10.9) was the local maxima (speed, stability, capability). I've no inkling what issues using that would entail—I had no idea that Mo…

You needed to own a "QuickTime Pro" license in order to enable these features. I used to do all my simple video editing with it until they shelved it.

You're thinking of QuickTime 7, that can be optionally installed (as a separate app) even on macOS 10.14 Mojave! But the website is referring to versions of QuickTime X. QuickTime 10.2, which was included with Mountain Lion, was the last to support third-party components. (If you've ever used "Perian", that's what I'm referring to.)

Re: Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever

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Post by NoSalt »

My exit from the Macintosh OS was in 2011 with the release of OS X 10.7 Lion; meaning the end of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It was at that point when I realized that Apple was going more towards an "appliance" company than a computing company. They started making it more and more difficult to access the power of the Unix core. So I packed up my virtual bags and moved to Linux once and for all. I started with Mint (for about a minute), then went to Ubuntu, now I am at Debian (with the Xfce DE); probably forever.
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