I miss it as well. Mac OS 7 was awesome in it's simplicity. I also thought maintaining the machine was pretty simple in case there was some driver issue. Just do a kind-of safe boot (by pressing shift on start-up IIRC) which would disable all extensions and control panels. And then one could try to disable all or some extensions during the next start-up and see if that would solve the issue. All in all it worked rather well and that was pretty much all there was to managing the system.
Though nowadays I would miss having a decent terminal. Perhaps A/UX [0] was decent, but I never tried that.
Though nowadays I would miss having a decent terminal. Perhaps A/UX [0] was decent, but I never tried that.
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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX