I got the 10.PB immediately it came out and loaded it into my Sawtooth.
Better multitasking and that delicious liquid interface! It ran pretty well and I was so happy to get it, being used to "Minicomputer" OpenVMS. Well, UNIX was a poor relation but at least it was robust enough.
Never let me down. After a few days I was using it as my default with the Classic embedded and almost never booting into native 9.
I think 10.3 was the sweet spot for G4's. After that it began to get slower and slower with certain Finder candy and all manner of behind the scenes vampires clogging up the system.
Now I have 10.5.8 on my PB 1.67 and it runs only ok. Note I have not used newer machines so I am not "coming back to" G4. Worst thing is the scheduling seems poorly implemented with, for example, slow loading of a page in one tab making it slow to switch to another and enter text - I mean, a background tab should not slow down foreground keyboard entry. Ever.
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