I used Apple \]\[+ and \]\[e in high school to learn Applebasic and play a ton of Choplifter and Lunar Lander. A buddy in college had a \]\[c he let me try out. I tried to make fake IDs on a Mac in college - came pretty close with Pennsylvania IDs...
Basically snow leopard and tiger are the two sweet spots for old Mac shenanigans unless someone wants to get the authentic classic Mac OS experience or has something that cannot run in Classic (then probably a machine with 9 is the sweet spot). Snow leopard because it can run OS X PowerPC apps and Tiger (on a PowerPC machine) because it has classic so it can run most classic apps even dating back to the earliest days of the Mac.
Just these 3 Macs and you can run most OS versions native (sometimes with hacks) across Mac history:
* Macintosh II - 2.0 through 7.5.5
* Power Macintosh 9500 - 7.5.3 through 10.4 (10.5 with G4 cpu)
* Mac Pro 5 - 10.6.8 through 14
Yep. Tiger was the one I liked best, but Snow Leopard wins in practice because it had Time Machine, Spaces, and better performance than Leopard. I still think Expose and Spaces beat the pants off Mission Control any day.
Probably snow leopard. If I remember correctly, it was such an improvement over leopard. It just ran flawlessly at the time. Mavericks was a good OS too.
Same! Snow Leopard is just so stable and so usable that it’s honestly hard to beat. Mavericks is definitely a close second - it’s what the family iMac used for the longest time, so it’s got the nostalgia factor for me hahaha
Those are my favorites too, plus Mojave. Still have Mojave on my old 2009 MBP that I take out from time to time. Those three felt the most polished, stable and cohesive out of all the OSX versions.
I also really like classic MacOS (8 and 9). It was so much better than Windows at the time and the nostalgia is still strong.
Honestly, technology wise I have no clue what made them so good, but the reason they are my favorite is just the overall aesthetic and the memories associated with them
Much easier for people living outside of the US as well. Mojave, Monterey, El Capitan all don’t really translate to any language that isn’t English (influenced by Spanish) and most don’t know what it’s supposed to be. The cats naming though worked for everyone.
I hope they go back to a more internationally recognised naming system, and make the OS’s differentiate more.
I still remember all the major changes in the Cats releases, whilst I honestly wasn’t even sure what the current release of MacOS was or what new features were introduced and on which version.
All of them, but the earliest OS we’ve had in our family computer was Mac OS System 8 back in the late 90s. Snow Leopard & Mavericks are my favourite ones.
Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Mojave, Big Sur and Monterey.
I still have Mavericks on my 2011 MBP as the last version of macOS before learning about Boot Camp before buying a 2017 Air (which I recently sold).
All of them since system 8. I remember system 9 being revolutionary if I remember correctly. I didn’t remember using the names cheetah and puma referring to those versions though, but I definitely used them.
All of those, plus the Server variants of Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, and classic Mac OS going alllll the way back to System 7.0.
Mac user since OS 7.5. I actually was in the Original OS X beta and I still have the packaging around somewhere. Since then, pretty much every version since. Made the transition from PowerPC to Intel and now in on Apple Silicone.
Mac Mini M1
Big Sur to Sonoma
I do not know how many more OS updates the Mac Mini M1 will get. I had since it was released back in 2020. I probably won’t upgrade until it gets real slow.
AppleDOS on old ][, ][+, ][e systems; ProDOS on //c; and System 1.0 onward (my Dad bought one of the original 128K Macs in March 1984, which I still have in fact); my own were the //c, a Mac IIci, Performa 6400, and then many, many more down the line from 2001-onward
All of them except for 10.5 i’m pretty sure. i’ve got an ibook g3 clamshell with 8.6, a few ibooks ranging from 10.1 to 10.4, a pair of macbook pros running 10.6, a blackbook running 10.7, and then just machines my family and i have owned up to Sonoma. My favorite is still definitely Snow Leopard
I ran some original Macs back in college in the mid-80s. Ran some System 7, 8, and 9 boxes in the late 90s/early 2000s. Have run every iteration of OSX since it launched.
Dare I say I have used all of them and more? And still have Tiger, ElCap, Sierra (for a GPU fix on glitched Mbp 17 2011), Mojave, Catalina, each one thereafter up to Sonoma? Too many Macs.
All of them, as well as OS 9.2.x, 9.0.4 (I’ve never used 9.1, as I don’t see much advantage of it over 9.2, and the only reason I installed 9.0.4 was because it was the version on the iBook restore CD), 8.1, 7.6.x, 7.5?(some version of System 7 before 7.6), and 6.0.8.
All on real hardware, except System 6 because I don’t have a classic Mac or Mac II
All of them.
My first Mac OS was 8.6 myself on my own iMac. But I am sure I used an earlier version in grade 5 when our school had a lab of some form of the earliest Macs (when it was still a monochrome screen and it was an all in one.)
On a computer I owned, everything from System 4 onward. Beyond that, I used Macs I didn’t use in the mid 80s, so probably one of the three system versions that preceded System 4, most likely System 3. Then 4–9 inclusive, X–14 inclusive.
My very first exposure to macOS was macOS Yosemite on my school's iMac, because I was in a videography club using it to do video editing for school events.
Then I have used macOS High Sierra on the school's Mac mini during my higher studies in a tech related modules and I have some exposure to other OS as well such as linux/unix/ubuntu and Windows. Back then I was still a Windows user.
Then after I got myself my very first 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and it comes with macOS Big Sur.
macOS Monterey was my very first macOS update after I joined the mac world and now I am totally in love with macOS and macs. Now I am on the latest version of macOS Sonoma, I really can't wait for the WWDC next month.
My first personal Mac was a 2006 17" MacBook Pro running Tiger. But I was using Panther and Jaguar in my College's design lab, and various versions of OS9 in high school.
What have I used? Hell, that goes back to the original Mac SE.
What have I owned? Started on Tiger, up through Monterey now, though Catalina and Big Sur only briefly.
As far as ones that I've daily driven, everything Leopard and up. And there was even a period in my childhood where I had a Mac gifted to me running Mac OS 7.5.3 that I used extensively until a blackout killed its hard drive.
How much I've used of any other given pre-Leopard version is the realm of vague childhood memories... but my schools had Macs and my friend's stepdad was a big Mac guy as well, so I almost certainly touched every version of OS X at least once. And I've used the major pre-X Mac OS versions (6-9) to varying degrees as well.
In kindergarten, my school's computer lab had an eclectic mix of those hot new iMacs running Mac OS 8 alongside some older Macs and even some outgoing Apple II stuff, which is what us kindergartners got to fiddle with since the Macs were primarily reserved for kids in the higher grades.
Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, El Capitan, (High) Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey.
All in the span of 4 years at my old job. Upgrading from various different macs and having to keep using the old ones for file-conversion purposes.
Coolest part was, that I got to keep an old (sadly broken) G5, that is currently serving as my nightstand. Might tear everything out and plop in my current gaming setup. Who knows.
Got my first Mac in 2012 with lion. Since then everything up to Catalina.
I hate the new square app icons and UI design from Big Sur. And the redesigned system preferences app.
And I hear it performs worse on Intel Macs. So my 2017 iMac and 2018 Mac mini are still on Catalina.
Just 2 days ago I decided to grab an external SSD (250GB) and install Sonoma on it. I’ll try it out again on the Mac mini. I still hate the UI and settings app.
I vividly remember Yosemite -->Sierra because i got my first apple laptop with those. i feel like these past four updates have been less memorable with wallpapers/themed UI stuff and it kinda bums me out :/
All of them, although not on my own computer until Snow Leopard. My dad always bought Macs so I used to play games and make weird songs in garageband and even weirder movies with photobooth and imovie as a kid
I used Leopard and Snow Leopard as a *hackintosh* system because they had mods for AMD processors, after I got an intel laptop, I tried mountain lion as well.
But when I got my own macbook pro,, It had Catalina pre-installed, then I upgraded to Big Sur and now I'm running Sonoma.
All of them, and OS9, OS8 and System 7... Of all, Tiger was the most consistently stable. We used to run Mac Server - Open Directory and all that good stuff... and our Tiger based servers would just run and run and run.
All since Tiger.
Pedantically, "macOS" has only been used since Sierra. Previously it was called (Mac) OS X (aka OS 10). Up to Catalina (10.15) each new version was 10.x. Since Big Sur the major OS version number has incremented every year, like the other Apple OSes.
Jaguar on our then brand new and shiny mac pro which was barely used due to software incompatibilities with the 500k indigo print machine my boss had bought. We were making websites in our department at the time and I snatched it from the printing office. Felt magical to use. After I left the company because it was going bancrupt, I got the cheese grater with Tiger. Never left the applesphere until Sonoma. Dang, that's more releases than I had cracked windows versions on my teenage pc hehe
Gah to this day I still wish there was an option to use Aqua UI elements. I still kept my old MBP with Leopard to experience a sweet nostalgia trip from time to time.
I think I have started with Tiger, now on Ventura. My favorite along the way was Snow Leopard.
In general I like the versions best, that do not introduce many features but focus on making the system more stable.
The first mac I used was in elementary school. Not sure which model exactly, but I know is what Classic Mac OS. Maybe Mac OS 8 or 9. In high school, we had eMacs running Tiger. The first Mac is purchased ran Snow Leopard, and I've updated the OS with every new release.
TLDR - Classic Mac OS (8 or 9, idk I was like 10), Tiger, Snow Leopard-Sonoma.
All of them. And everything before them since System 6, and a few before that, but before System 6 no one really paid attention to versions.
Same all the way back. Does AppleDOS count? Cut my teeth on the Oregon Trail.
Well if that’s the case then I started with an Apple ][c. I started supporting Apple Computers with Systems 6.
I used Apple \]\[+ and \]\[e in high school to learn Applebasic and play a ton of Choplifter and Lunar Lander. A buddy in college had a \]\[c he let me try out. I tried to make fake IDs on a Mac in college - came pretty close with Pennsylvania IDs...
I loved Choplifter. Just the coolest thing when Pong was still state of the art.
Out of curiosity, what’s been your favorite version of MacOS?
That’s tough. Probably Snow Leopard. Mavericks was pretty nice as well.
Snow Leopard was a huge jump. Loved that OS.
Snow leopard posse! I used it for 4 1/2 years
Same. I still have a functional 13" 2011 MBP running Snow Leopard that I fire up from time to time.
Snow Leopard is the best for old Mac shenanigans. Has Rosetta so anything from the PowerPC days still works!
Basically snow leopard and tiger are the two sweet spots for old Mac shenanigans unless someone wants to get the authentic classic Mac OS experience or has something that cannot run in Classic (then probably a machine with 9 is the sweet spot). Snow leopard because it can run OS X PowerPC apps and Tiger (on a PowerPC machine) because it has classic so it can run most classic apps even dating back to the earliest days of the Mac.
Just these 3 Macs and you can run most OS versions native (sometimes with hacks) across Mac history: * Macintosh II - 2.0 through 7.5.5 * Power Macintosh 9500 - 7.5.3 through 10.4 (10.5 with G4 cpu) * Mac Pro 5 - 10.6.8 through 14
And up to Sonoma on the Mac Pro with OCLP!
Big Mac, Tsunami and the Cheesegrater
Yep. Tiger was the one I liked best, but Snow Leopard wins in practice because it had Time Machine, Spaces, and better performance than Leopard. I still think Expose and Spaces beat the pants off Mission Control any day.
I think leopard had spaces?
Leopard definitely had spaces. I think there was some minor change to it though?
Same loved it
Snow leopard with the blood!
I think exactly the same, Snow Leopard followed closely by Mavericks
I quite liked Macintosh System 7.1 Professional. It introduced AppleScript.
Probably Tiger, because it was the first genuinely usable version.
I’d go with 8.6.
In it's day, 10.4 Tiger was my favorite for stability. I still have the install disc.
Looking back, it’s either mac OS 7.1, or Sonoma (14.n)
Ever single OS since Mac OS9
What’s been your favorite out of them?
Probably snow leopard. If I remember correctly, it was such an improvement over leopard. It just ran flawlessly at the time. Mavericks was a good OS too.
Same! Snow Leopard is just so stable and so usable that it’s honestly hard to beat. Mavericks is definitely a close second - it’s what the family iMac used for the longest time, so it’s got the nostalgia factor for me hahaha
Those are my favorites too, plus Mojave. Still have Mojave on my old 2009 MBP that I take out from time to time. Those three felt the most polished, stable and cohesive out of all the OSX versions. I also really like classic MacOS (8 and 9). It was so much better than Windows at the time and the nostalgia is still strong.
Man, Mavericks and Snow Leopard were so fucking good.
back when apple software engineering actually gave a fuck
I think I started with Tiger? I'm not that techy, can you explain what made Snow Leopard and Mavericks so good?
Honestly, technology wise I have no clue what made them so good, but the reason they are my favorite is just the overall aesthetic and the memories associated with them
Mavericks was awesome.
I started with snow leopard and used the rest
same. I remember it being an incredible experience coming from xp. Miss the OSX into though
Same!
Born in 1993, first Mac I used was running Tiger (released in 2005). Almost no one I knew had a Mac until the iPod really caught on.
All of them. For me animals still easier to remember
Much easier for people living outside of the US as well. Mojave, Monterey, El Capitan all don’t really translate to any language that isn’t English (influenced by Spanish) and most don’t know what it’s supposed to be. The cats naming though worked for everyone. I hope they go back to a more internationally recognised naming system, and make the OS’s differentiate more. I still remember all the major changes in the Cats releases, whilst I honestly wasn’t even sure what the current release of MacOS was or what new features were introduced and on which version.
Also the whole Californiaaaaa thing is just extremely cliche and overdone IMO.
Tiger on an old G5 tower that i still have and each one since Mavericks on my several Pro 13" though the M1 i'm using now.
All of them, but the earliest OS we’ve had in our family computer was Mac OS System 8 back in the late 90s. Snow Leopard & Mavericks are my favourite ones.
everything since 1986 except lion and mountain lion. I just kept using snow leopard.
10.4 on PPC
Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Mojave, Big Sur and Monterey. I still have Mavericks on my 2011 MBP as the last version of macOS before learning about Boot Camp before buying a 2017 Air (which I recently sold).
All of them. I came in at System 7 and am still going. I'm very old.
All of them. Started on System 6.
All of them since system 8. I remember system 9 being revolutionary if I remember correctly. I didn’t remember using the names cheetah and puma referring to those versions though, but I definitely used them.
Yes. Also Finder 1-5 and Macos 6-9. A/UX and AppleDos too . Even spent a little time with Rhapsody and BeOS
All of those, plus the Server variants of Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, and classic Mac OS going alllll the way back to System 7.0.
Mavericks, yosimite, el capitan, high sierra, ventura, and sonoma.
Of these Mavericks is definitely my favorite lmao
Yosemite, El Capitan, and from High Sierra onwards
My late 2013 macbook pro is still going strong
Same Snow Leopard
All of them… my first Mac was a 128K original Macintosh that I later upgraded to 512K - even had the external floppy.
Tiger onwards
Same. Got the very first Mac mini G4 and it was running Tiger
I think I came in with High Sierra
Mac user since OS 7.5. I actually was in the Original OS X beta and I still have the packaging around somewhere. Since then, pretty much every version since. Made the transition from PowerPC to Intel and now in on Apple Silicone.
Mac Mini M1 Big Sur to Sonoma I do not know how many more OS updates the Mac Mini M1 will get. I had since it was released back in 2020. I probably won’t upgrade until it gets real slow.
All of them!
Me too.
on macOS big sur 🤙🏽
El cap on school MacBooks; hackintoshing ever since (Sonoma)
Literally all of them. Started on Mac OS 9 back in 1999 I believe on my dad’s Mac.
Extensively, tiger thru Sonoma. But I e also used system 1 thru system 7.5 and apple dos from the Apple 2
AppleDOS on old ][, ][+, ][e systems; ProDOS on //c; and System 1.0 onward (my Dad bought one of the original 128K Macs in March 1984, which I still have in fact); my own were the //c, a Mac IIci, Performa 6400, and then many, many more down the line from 2001-onward
I started on Mac OS X Public Beta back in 2000. Still have the disk.
All and before. OS 9 for me.
I miss the cats
Hight sierra 😭
All of them.
All of them except for 10.5 i’m pretty sure. i’ve got an ibook g3 clamshell with 8.6, a few ibooks ranging from 10.1 to 10.4, a pair of macbook pros running 10.6, a blackbook running 10.7, and then just machines my family and i have owned up to Sonoma. My favorite is still definitely Snow Leopard
I ran some original Macs back in college in the mid-80s. Ran some System 7, 8, and 9 boxes in the late 90s/early 2000s. Have run every iteration of OSX since it launched.
All of them and back to System 7.0.1….then prior to that, GS/OS.
Dare I say I have used all of them and more? And still have Tiger, ElCap, Sierra (for a GPU fix on glitched Mbp 17 2011), Mojave, Catalina, each one thereafter up to Sonoma? Too many Macs.
Mavericks, high sierra, catalina, big sur, sonoma
System 6
Started on OS 7. I still remember how cool it was that the folders stopped being just flat and became more 3D looking for OS 8.
All of them and a bunch not pictured before that.
Leopard to lion, sierra, high sierra, big sur to sonoma. Quite a few definitely
All, but the "switch" to macOS X-only was with Jaguar. My start with Apple computers was DOS 3.3, which was quickly replaced by Diversi-DOS.
All lol
All of them, as well as OS 9.2.x, 9.0.4 (I’ve never used 9.1, as I don’t see much advantage of it over 9.2, and the only reason I installed 9.0.4 was because it was the version on the iBook restore CD), 8.1, 7.6.x, 7.5?(some version of System 7 before 7.6), and 6.0.8. All on real hardware, except System 6 because I don’t have a classic Mac or Mac II
All of them. My first Mac OS was 8.6 myself on my own iMac. But I am sure I used an earlier version in grade 5 when our school had a lab of some form of the earliest Macs (when it was still a monochrome screen and it was an all in one.)
All of them and a few of OS 9 for compatibility reasons on former projects
Since 10.2
On a computer I owned, everything from System 4 onward. Beyond that, I used Macs I didn’t use in the mid 80s, so probably one of the three system versions that preceded System 4, most likely System 3. Then 4–9 inclusive, X–14 inclusive.
All of them but Sonoma. Started MacOS X with the public beta back in 2000.
My very first exposure to macOS was macOS Yosemite on my school's iMac, because I was in a videography club using it to do video editing for school events. Then I have used macOS High Sierra on the school's Mac mini during my higher studies in a tech related modules and I have some exposure to other OS as well such as linux/unix/ubuntu and Windows. Back then I was still a Windows user. Then after I got myself my very first 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and it comes with macOS Big Sur. macOS Monterey was my very first macOS update after I joined the mac world and now I am totally in love with macOS and macs. Now I am on the latest version of macOS Sonoma, I really can't wait for the WWDC next month.
My first personal Mac was a 2006 17" MacBook Pro running Tiger. But I was using Panther and Jaguar in my College's design lab, and various versions of OS9 in high school.
Everything since MAC OS 6. 7.1 I liked best.
Every since Tiger.
What have I used? Hell, that goes back to the original Mac SE. What have I owned? Started on Tiger, up through Monterey now, though Catalina and Big Sur only briefly.
All after Sierra
Snow Leopard, High Sierra and everything that came after that.
Snow Leopard onwards
As far as ones that I've daily driven, everything Leopard and up. And there was even a period in my childhood where I had a Mac gifted to me running Mac OS 7.5.3 that I used extensively until a blackout killed its hard drive. How much I've used of any other given pre-Leopard version is the realm of vague childhood memories... but my schools had Macs and my friend's stepdad was a big Mac guy as well, so I almost certainly touched every version of OS X at least once. And I've used the major pre-X Mac OS versions (6-9) to varying degrees as well. In kindergarten, my school's computer lab had an eclectic mix of those hot new iMacs running Mac OS 8 alongside some older Macs and even some outgoing Apple II stuff, which is what us kindergartners got to fiddle with since the Macs were primarily reserved for kids in the higher grades.
All of them. Not hard if you were born in the 90s
Started with PowerPC Mac Mini with Panther and never returned to Windows world.
Snow Leopard, also every one from High Sierra on. Snow leopard still runs on some older Macs I own and collect.
Used them all with my Mac collection, but the first I used when it was current was Panther.
Everything from Leopard on....except Venture which I skipped because I was too lazy to do the update.
BINGO! All of them.
Yes
All.
Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Yosemite, El Capitan, (High) Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey. All in the span of 4 years at my old job. Upgrading from various different macs and having to keep using the old ones for file-conversion purposes. Coolest part was, that I got to keep an old (sadly broken) G5, that is currently serving as my nightstand. Might tear everything out and plop in my current gaming setup. Who knows.
Started with Tiger: been a Mac user since.
Every one since before all of these.
Been here since OS X Mavericks. I was just 9-10 year old back then
All of the above. You should include Mac Classic.
Got my first Mac in 2012 with lion. Since then everything up to Catalina. I hate the new square app icons and UI design from Big Sur. And the redesigned system preferences app. And I hear it performs worse on Intel Macs. So my 2017 iMac and 2018 Mac mini are still on Catalina. Just 2 days ago I decided to grab an external SSD (250GB) and install Sonoma on it. I’ll try it out again on the Mac mini. I still hate the UI and settings app.
Started with High Sierra until now Sonoma
Snow Leopard and onward for me. Mountain Lion is probably my favourite
Cheetah, Snow Leopard, Lion, Yosemite, El Capital, Sierra, High Sierra, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma.
So many memories
Leopard, snow leopard, lion, mountain lion, mavericks, yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, high Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma.
I love how over time beautiful animals and landscapes just devolved into amorphous palette blobs
None
Never use cats. Start with Mavericks > Sierra > Mojave > Ventura.
I vividly remember Yosemite -->Sierra because i got my first apple laptop with those. i feel like these past four updates have been less memorable with wallpapers/themed UI stuff and it kinda bums me out :/
Came in with Tiger…
Sadly all, it means I am so old now. The best was Snow Leopard, no doubt.
El Capitan to present. In 2016, my family’s old computer was dying and I convinced my parents to try out an iMac as we already had iPhones.
Only a little bit of Big Sur and Ventura since I’m a Windows user
All of them, although not on my own computer until Snow Leopard. My dad always bought Macs so I used to play games and make weird songs in garageband and even weirder movies with photobooth and imovie as a kid
All of them and even before them as well
Mojave, Catalina and Ventura. Skipped a bunch since I was stubborn to upgrade from catalina until software support forced me to.
Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave and Catalina on mac. Big sur, Monterey and Ventura on Hackintosh.
All of them
Since Leopard, and Snow Leopard was easily my favourite. Fast, beautiful, efficient. Mountain Lion was pretty good too.
Catalina
Every one since Snow Leopard 🐆
I got hooked with Panther, 10.3
Lion Mountain Lion mavericks Yosemite El Capitan Sierra High Sierra Mojave Sonoma
All. Jaguar was the best with lots of new features like Bonjour! Snow Leopard was the “stablest”. Iirc
Lion through Mojave during my time in K-12, then I got my first mac of my own with Sonoma
See the mountain lion looking at you with that "Yeah I know, they used me twice" look.
When current? Snow Leopard and onwards. Although technically as a kid I was exposed to OS 8 & 9
its funny how sonoma is actually the place the classic windows background photo was taken
Snow leopard >>>
Tim Cooked
Leopard to date
I’ve dailyed Catalina, Sonoma, Ventura, and Monterey. I’ve used Snow Leopard, Mojave, and High Sierra on family’s laptops
Catalina-Momterey, skipped Ventura because I was too lazy to update and now I‘m on Sonoma
I liked stylistic of Tiger and Leopard. Not so much what happened afterwards
Sonoma, but the best in my heart is Snow Leopard.
Tsunami
Monterey , sonoma , ventura
I used Leopard and Snow Leopard as a *hackintosh* system because they had mods for AMD processors, after I got an intel laptop, I tried mountain lion as well. But when I got my own macbook pro,, It had Catalina pre-installed, then I upgraded to Big Sur and now I'm running Sonoma.
snow leopard onwards everything, except mountain lion. had to pay for that so i didn't get it
Mavericks, Sierra, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura (my favorite), Sonoma (the one I use until now)
Everything since Snow Leopard
Since Show Leopard. Still the best one. "Cats" in general were more exciting releases
All of them, pretty much.
All of them starting from Jaguar onwards. Also used AppleDOS in 1985 and all of the Classic OS versions until 1998.
Mavericks to Sonoma
Mavericks to Sonoma
The Mac OS got crappy after High Sierra.
monterey and sonoma
monterey and sonoma
All of these and a few older ones in early grade school.
All of these and a few older ones in early grade school.
All of these and a few older ones in early grade school.
All of these and a few older ones in early grade school.
Big Sur and newer only
Bought my first Mac in February 1985 — I’ve seen every Mac OS since
Ventura and Sonoma. Apple Silicon convinced me to move over
m1 air is my first so im here since big sur. miss the pretty landscapes wallpapers.
All of them, and OS9, OS8 and System 7... Of all, Tiger was the most consistently stable. We used to run Mac Server - Open Directory and all that good stuff... and our Tiger based servers would just run and run and run.
I think Leopard was my first
Tiger plus.
Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma
all or them.... O\_o. started with mac os 6 or 7 if I'm not wrong...
Jaguar to Catalina
All since Tiger. Pedantically, "macOS" has only been used since Sierra. Previously it was called (Mac) OS X (aka OS 10). Up to Catalina (10.15) each new version was 10.x. Since Big Sur the major OS version number has incremented every year, like the other Apple OSes.
Tiger onwards.
Snow leopard then everything from Mavericks to Big Sur
Jaguar on our then brand new and shiny mac pro which was barely used due to software incompatibilities with the 500k indigo print machine my boss had bought. We were making websites in our department at the time and I snatched it from the printing office. Felt magical to use. After I left the company because it was going bancrupt, I got the cheese grater with Tiger. Never left the applesphere until Sonoma. Dang, that's more releases than I had cracked windows versions on my teenage pc hehe
Since Tiger. Snow Leopard was the best.
Daily Drivers: Snow Leopard+ I did use Tiger and Panther on some old PPC iBooks and a G3 I had gotten freely during high school.
Gah to this day I still wish there was an option to use Aqua UI elements. I still kept my old MBP with Leopard to experience a sweet nostalgia trip from time to time.
The last 3
I think I have started with Tiger, now on Ventura. My favorite along the way was Snow Leopard. In general I like the versions best, that do not introduce many features but focus on making the system more stable.
Lion. Felt great coming from Vista.
My first Mac shipped with 10.4.
All of them, and backwards until system 7.
Panther till now.
Leopard, snow leopard, switched to windows, then came back at El Capitan
All of them. Tiger and Snow Leopard were my favorites
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The first mac I used was in elementary school. Not sure which model exactly, but I know is what Classic Mac OS. Maybe Mac OS 8 or 9. In high school, we had eMacs running Tiger. The first Mac is purchased ran Snow Leopard, and I've updated the OS with every new release. TLDR - Classic Mac OS (8 or 9, idk I was like 10), Tiger, Snow Leopard-Sonoma.
Mac OS 9.2.2 and Panther as a Windows user of XP and 7