The best Mac OS you've used

[kirbyds80]

I wanted to ask everyone who has used a Mac, what is the best version of OS X you've used? For me it has to be Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard. All these OS's I've used over the past 4 years or so. I started out in HS on Snow Leopard, I then got a G4 PowerMac with Tiger, and then got a PowerBook G4 with Leopard. So I want to hear from you all about your favorite Mac OS.
-Jay

 

[jfalberti]

I've used OS X since Panther (10.3)

on my iMac G3, and every version since.  I've found that Tiger is very stable, and am running the server version of it on my iMac G4 as I type.  I've run Leopard, and am currently running Snow Leopard on my iMac Core Duo, only because it won't run anything newer.  On my MacBook Pro, I run Mountain Lion, and really like it.  I think each version of OS X has improved, and each is better than the release prior to it.

 

[kirbyds80]

New OS

I don't care for any of the new OS's, Because I feel that they are leading towards iOS. For me the last version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard. That is why I refuse to buy a new Mac with any of the new OS's on them.
-Jay

 

[kloveland]

Mac OS 9

Call me old I still have a Performa that runs OS 9. Some of my older applications still run on OS 9. My Mac mini, IPad and Dell laptop handles all of my Internet applications. The older Mac operating systems are so simple to use. I recieved my first Mac in 1998 and I was running OS 7.5.3. They have come along way since then.

 

[bagintheback]

Mac OS 10.4 Tiger was amazing. I was capable of running Leopard on my iMac G4 but downgraded back to Tiger once I realized how slick it was.  Compared to my troubles on Windows XP SP2, any issues Tiger gave me were extremely minimal.  Hardware quality certainly played a role in the stability, but the G4 could handle 10.4 much easier than 10.5 while doing basically the same thing.  


 


I currently run 10.6 Snow Leopard on a 2009 Mac Mini. Best version by far. I refuse to upgrade for a few reasons: The upgraded Finder in 10.7 & 10.8 are much harder to navigate. I could never understand the 'All Files' category and don't appreciate how things are organized.  Finder is perfect on 10.6. I own no Macintosh laptops, and have no intrest in a trackpad, so gestures mean nothing to me. Save As is extremely useful and necessary. 


 


Yet I think what is the most compelling reason to stay with 10.6 is Rosetta. Adobe is literally giving away Creative Suite 2, and since it was written in the PowerPC era, to run it on an Intel Mac you need Rosetta. Rossetta was removed in Lion. Yet I can run the same version of Photoshop on Windows 2000(the best Windows OS I've used)! To give up a free and legal copy of Photoshop is crazy. 10.6 has all I need and nothing more, and thus the best version I have used.