[spiderfarmer]

For me seeing old OS'es always remind me of the bad stuff. Slow CPU's, slow networking, slow disks, limited functionality.

Maybe I'm a bit too negative but for example when people romanticise stuff from the middle ages I can't help but think of how it must have smelled.

[II2II]

Those who romanticize the past tend to highlight the best points and gloss over the low points, which is likely better than dismissing it altogether.

It's also worth noting that some points mentioned either didn't matter as much, or aren't true in an absolute stuff. Slow networking wasn't as much of an issue since computers as a whole didn't have the capacity to handle huge amounts of data, while limited functionality depends upon the software being used. On the last point, I find a lot of modern consumer applications far more limiting than older consumer applications.

[wpm]

Slow networking? Most people’s networking hardware is still only as fast as the best PowerMac you could buy over 20 years ago. Only in the last few years has 2.5GbE become noticeably common.

[spiderfarmer]

20 years ago most people were on ISDN.

[wpm]

And two years ago I was still on a 500Mbps download coax connection with my ISP, that has no bearing on the network hardware in my LAN.

[lapcat]

To me, Finder often seems slower now with SSD and Apple silicon that it was with spinning drives and PPC. And the Mac boots slower!!

Apple's software today is poorly optimized. They're depending on hardware to do all the work.

[wang_li]

OS X on a power Mac g4 quicksilver is a far better user experience in terms of responsiveness and consistency than raspberry pi os on a raspberry pi 3 even though the pi benchmarks faster.