I love the concepts in Lion, but i agree it's by far the buggiest OS X version thus far. all gone, Logic projects, photos, mail, text files. I lost important family videos of my mother recovering from Lupus etc. So it was the worst possible time to have a system crash. I had my TIme Machine back up drive hooked up and formatted for my PS3 while i am going to put in a larger HDD this week when i get it from Amazon. It corrupted my start up disc=locked disc, only solution clean install. I lost everything after only a few days with Lion, i had to do a clean install when Safari locked up and i did a simple restart. Sure, the Dock is the obvious place for commonly used apps, but I am liking Launchpad as the best way I've seen to quickly get to lesser used Apps. Launchpad I like more than I thought I would. Now you have to first select the Space, and move any wondows to one of the small desktops along the top.Īnd with Expose, I quite liked being able to see the full windows, even if they were smaller, compared to MC which stacks windows of the same app.īut having said that, given that its so quick and easy to swipe through desktops, and it being handy to see everything in the same place, I'm getting used to it quite quickly.Īnd I've noticed you can set apps to specific Spaces, or to all Spaces - I have a feeling you could always do that, but I must have missed it. I didn't think Spaces was as good, as you could no longer see them all and from a single view move windows between any two Spaces. I wasn't convinced by MC at first, as I was so used to Spaces and Expose. I think a lot of it comes down to familiarity and personal preference, rather than Lion being at all bad. Lion to me is nothing more than a dumbed-down Snow Leopard. To turn off the switch on these features on the blink of an upgrade makes me wonder about where apple is heading with OSX. People get used to these things, they become second nature almost. Gestures is one of those things that sets Macs appart from everything else and a key aspect to how users interact with the OS environment. With so many traumatic changes, you need to at least allow users to retain functionality to which they may have grown acustomed. It is ok to fine tune features but retaining core functionality should be at the forefront. The new OS will be attractive to new users for sure but at what cost to your existing user base? Too many UI changes can be risky and apple is prone to upset a lot of long time users with this. I think apple completely missed the mark here. Another counter-intuitive and unncessary feature downgrade. Now I am forced to use mission control where all I get is a tiny preview of what's in each space and I must switch to the desired space before I am able to drag a window or app from it into a different space. I used to be able to open spaces via hot-corner, and drag windows/apps between the various spaces from within the spaces 'view' itself. Mission Control/Spaces: I can't stand the convergence of expose and spaces in mission control. Again, such a great feature from a usability point of view and one of the things that drove me to purchase a magic mouse to begin with is now gone for good!Ģ. Thanks to this upgrade, I can no longer browser the web with the ease and freedom I once had on Snow Leopard. I tried turning this off but I still can't manage to regain the functionality I once had with my web browsers. My very favority gesture to navigate back and forth when web browsing (with either the trackpad - three finger left/right or my magic mouse - two finger left/right) is now replaced with mission control 'spaces' switching. Browser (back/forth) navigation gestures: this is the one I am most ticked off about and I can't imagine I am the only one.Would it have killed you to leave this gesture alone or, at the very least, allow users to retain the previous (call it legacy) gesture? I still find it cumbersome to do after using my Mac all day. Now it takes your thumb, three fingers, and a temperamental gesture that takes a while to get right. It used to be a simple four finger up and down swipe on the trackpad. The gesture to show/hide your desktop is a prime example.New Mouse Gestures: while 'additional' gestures are always welcomed, apple completely missed the point here and has entirely overcomplicated a concept that was supposed to make interacting with the OS and applications simpler, not harder. Here is my beef with Lion after upgrading Today: Lion is a prime example of what happens when a company like apple begins to design software ala Microsoft, that is, with the lowest denominator (the average user) in mind in an effort to gain more market share.
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