Leopard = meh
Snow Leopard = Awesome
Lion = meh
Yosemite = ok
Sierra = good
High Sierra = Awesome
Mojave = meh
Catalina = meh
Big Sur = meh
(snow leopard and high sierra were the best IMO)
Mac Admin for 15 years
Snow Leopard = Awesome
Lion = meh
Yosemite = ok
Sierra = good
High Sierra = Awesome
Mojave = meh
Catalina = meh
Big Sur = meh
(snow leopard and high sierra were the best IMO)
Mac Admin for 15 years
I could never see Apple coming up with the original Time Machine design anymore.
I however think this is a personnal opinoin, and I won't argue that Linux is better that macOS. If I has been a macOS user from the start I would have maybe been equally unhappy to be forced to use Linux.
What i'm trying to say is, we are all different people with different tastes and priorities, and I don't think we can objectivly say that one OS is better (or "sucks the least").
I do however agree that it's 100% totally opinion based on ones preferred OS.
It's always just been a VM on Mac, hence the constant performance issues it faces.
My major gripes are swallen batteries (2 times in 20 years), and the crappy 2015-2019 keyboards (plus, whoever idiot designed the usb-at-the-bottom mouse).
But as far as the OS is concerned there are some bugs I see here and there, but I don't see the big fuss. I don't have peripherals disconeccting at random, crashes, data loss, and so on.
I've had way worse bugs and issues on Linux and Linux software over the years (which I also use since 1997), and even used as my main pro desktop for years (1999-2003, Debian) in far more optimistic times.
One key differentiator might be that I don't install any kind of crap (I have a no-haxies policy for example, and spare for Little Snitch, I avoided kexts too. A vendor has some special e.g. keyboard driver? Fuck it, I'll use one keyboard with class compliant drivers), but I do install a lot of apps still.
Another might be that I usually re-install fresh every 2 years or so (I like to get rid of accumulated junk, including personal documents and downloaded files, and install what I really need to use at the current, sort of like spring-cleaning).
The batteries last so long in those mice, plus you can get an almost full day's charge in about two minutes. It takes a real idiot to run into issues with it. :)
On top of the batteries starting dying much faster later on (the "last so long" thing is only true on the first 1-2 years), the warning is shown and dismissed far too easily, and far too late - and then they just die.
And I agree that you skipped Mavericks (10.9), it was one of the best releases. I used it for like 3 years but had to update to whatever was current at the end of 2016 because I got a new job and needed the latest Xcode for it.