I am talking about OS 9
I have not used OSX.
Maybe you should say I find macs pre 1999 incredibly annoying for lacking a taskbar..
BTW MacOS pre-X was crap, Ill agree with you on that anytime..
No offense, but in that case your knowledge of Macs is woefully out of date. OS X is as much advanced over OS 9 as Windows XP is over Windows 3.1.
A lot of people are. Mac OSes from about 7.5 to 9.2 did have significant stability problems and, in many ways, I think Mac OS8 and OS9 were getting more complicated and difficult to use. Before the advent of the iMac and OSX, I had pretty much said that I wouldn't buy another Mac. Those two products changed my mind. Most of the complaints that are bing raised about OS9 (e.g., the taskbar, stability, etc.) are not problems with OSX. I will also add that OSX 10.0 was not ready for primetime, so if you had an experience with OSX 10.0, a lot changed with 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and now 10.4. By 10.2, it was definitely ready for primetime.