Did anything bad happen?
The few viruses that were around were mostly annoyances.
I just had it in "computer class" to play crappy math games that hurt my eyes but they never crashed, and I wasn't a professional. I used Photoshop in 2003 or so, I think it was OSX by then, and never had an issue if you call photoshop and internet usage "professional" work.
And I still miss it.
The problem was that creative users had no concept of "some extensions just aren't compatible with others".
There were plenty of bugs in QuarkXPress, Photoshop and Illustrator to make our Macs bomb, and the fundamental lack of memory protection, process isolation and preemptive multitasking in Mac OS meant that the whole system was wobbly from the bottom up.
Also, my post wasn't meant as a comparision between Win95 and Mac OS. I just responded to a question about what Mac OS was like to work with on a daily basis in the decade of the 90s. Win95 wasn't around for half of it.
Your experience does not match my own.
I had way more issues supporting users on Windows, at least until Windows 98SE landed.
It was a happy day indeed when Windows 2000 finally landed with memory protection, process isolation and preemptive multitasking.
(Until, as you point out, Windows 2000 came around. Then I started working on Mac and PC simultaneously.)
>PCs came with dedicated reset buttons for a reason!
They still do! Windows 9x did suck, Windows NT however was amazing, it is like the most Linux like of all the Windows. How could they release Windows ME...
EDIT: Correction, I said 8.5. Sleepy.