I did finally get some sleep last night, but only for a few hours - I’m still downloading and installing and tweaking and generally having a ball. I haven’t seriously dealt with OS X since 10.0, over which 10.1.5 is of course a vast improvement. A couple of people warned me that I’d find it slow compared to 9.2, but I haven’t found that to be the case at all - if anything it seems much faster now that the OS doesn’t hang at all and boots in all of thirty seconds or something. Despite all the little embossed Apple logos everywhere, I have to say it feels less like I’m working on a Mac and more like I’m working on a BSD box with the best window manager I’ve ever seen - which is, of course, the whole point.

I haven’t actually had to use Classic yet, but since I haven’t grabbed the new Photoshop as of now I’m sure that moment will come. However, aside from Photoshop it doesn’t look like I’ll need Classic for anything else, which is fabulous.

iTunes 3 isn’t bad, but I have to say I wasn’t thrilled with the way it fucked up my mp3 naming convention; using the ID3 tags means that a bunch of miscellaneous files got named “Track 2″ or “-” and such; I can probably figure out what’s what and rename it all but it was mildly irritating. I am, however, looking forward to playing with Kung-Tunes, which I might get to tonight.

I installed bash, but more out of habit than any particular dislike for tsch. Either would really be fine for my purposes locally. The OS X gui for vim is adorable and TextEdit is sort of cute too; I also grabbed the new BBEdit just to have although I suspect I’ll end up using vim mostly.

All in all I’m really pleased with how the various installations and reinstallations went. I’ve still got a bunch of things to tinker with and keyboard habits from OS 9 to break (as well as ones for X to learn), but so far everything is exceeding my expectations.