BasicAppleGuyChoose your Fighter: Mac OS X Dashboard or macOS Sonoma Desktop Widgets.
thatvirtualboy@BasicAppleGuy I’ll take one OS X with those stock prices 👀
R.J. Faas@thatvirtualboy @BasicAppleGuy Dashboard hands down (and not just because I wrote an ebook on building widgets for it).
Sonoma web apps are far better but the utility of Dashboard and its ability to place widgets in a freeform way are two of the biggest things I miss.
DeviantXS@BasicAppleGuy Mac OS X Dashboard has stylistic good looking widgets, but tends to be often forgotten.
Sonoma is more focused on ready-to-use, easily readable widgets, which honestly is more to my liking.
So I'd go to Sonoma for this one, but I do respect the charm OS X Dashboard provided though.
Mario Guzmán@BasicAppleGuy Mac OS X Tiger's Dashboard is really the only correct answer.
James O'Gorman@BasicAppleGuy Dashboard was probably easier to write widgets for. I made one back in the day. It required having to learn AppleScript, but the widgets were just zip files so it was so simple to make available and install.
Marc Robinson 
@jamesog @BasicAppleGuy They were basically little webpages, code-wise. I made several widgets and it’s how I learned css.
Aaron Bushnell@BasicAppleGuy I’m so sentimental about the animations from OS X! https://youtu.be/RKX96BdjPuE?si=OC9IOpGRfNSFGqiy
Mac 101: Using the Mac OS X Dashboard
@BasicAppleGuy Team Dashboard for life! I do love the “snap to” feature of Sonoma’s widgets, tho.
Tara@BasicAppleGuy by the time I got around to dashboard, I couldn’t find many good widgets. That’s aid, I haven’t bothered trying them yet on Sonoma either.
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Francisco Tolmasky
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽@BasicAppleGuy I loved Dashboard. The water drop effect, nice Aqua or physical-looking UI, tons of cool little widgets, and best of all stayed out of my way until I moused into the corner. Desktop widgets mean I have to push shit out of the way to see them! And they look like ass because Apple can't put themes on UI any more.
caseyneiba 🦣@BasicAppleGuy What I find funny about those two is how they both represents how Apple sees the iPhone and not the Mac, even if we didn't know at the time that the iPhone was coming.
Since Mac OS X was going to PowerPC to Intel, they were already thinking about what language to use for Dashboard that would not need Universal Binaries -> Web Apps and 2 years later iPhone is full web apps.
And now it's all about SwiftUI.
Since Mac OS X was going to PowerPC to Intel, they were already thinking about what language to use for Dashboard that would not need Universal Binaries -> Web Apps and 2 years later iPhone is full web apps.
And now it's all about SwiftUI.
leemorgan
Chrispylizard 
@BasicAppleGuy I really miss the character and fun of Apple’s older software.
Richie Mythic@BasicAppleGuy Give me that weird little mesh grill and the splash effect ANY DAY
Konrad Kołakowski@BasicAppleGuy I definitely preferred Tiger ones!
But not because of their design - because of a separate layer with widgets.
With Sonoma, initially I put a lot of widgets on the desktop to try them, only to realize that I basically never see my desktop because I have windows all over my desktop because that's why I have desktop OS 🤷♂️
Aaron Czichon
jrn@BasicAppleGuy I tend to like Dashboard because to me, it was out of the way but there when I needed it. I kind of miss it.
Rich Aesthetic@BasicAppleGuy definitely not the dashboard 🤢
Josh Calvetti ⛰@BasicAppleGuy I prefer the additional layer of the Tiger dashboard, but they definitely were way more limited