OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

Re:OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment by watmough on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:56AM (#2946103)

I tried it for a bit, then happily re-imaged back to Snow Leopard. There's just too much goofy laptop oriented crap that I don't want. I was laughing out loud reading that article. And grimacing, as someone who works late in a quiet house, at the loss of fine volume adjustment from the keyboard.

I will have to test software on lion, but I'll just dedicate a partition and drop into it when necessary.

The worst thing for me was Mission Control. I miss the proportionately-scaled windows of Tiger(?) Exposé, but I utterly refuse to completely disrupt my flow with the clusterfuck that is Mission Control. Re-fuse.

I'll freely admit that I'm on a Mac Pro in a sea of laptops, but I have work to do, and it's just easier in Snow Leopard than it is in Lion.

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Re:OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment by tptacek on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @12:16PM (#2946201)

Lion is not for you.

Snowpard will continue to work without being a liability for probably the next 12 months, at least.

Giving up on Lion isn't a moral failing. Give the pioneers some time to absorb the arrows. By next March, I'm betting that (suitably tuned) Lion won't be anywhere nearly as annoying as it is today.

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Re:OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment by watmough on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @01:29PM (#2946566)

Yeah, I'm so happy with Snow Leopard, that this is just not a big deal to me, and let's face it, unless it's mind-blowingly good, like an XP or a Tiger or Leopard, a set of big changes is bound to make a chunk of people unhappy.

My Mac Mini on Tiger is still seeing updates for iTunes, so Apple seem to be supporting older stuff at least partially.

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