Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

jarturoe wrote:

I've seen many comments about people having different problems and trouble with the new OS X Lion, does anyone recommend me to download it? My current OS is Mac OS X 10.6.7.

Thanks for submitting this thread and stirring such a rich debate. After reading it, I guess Snow Leopard it's gonna be my last mac OS. Afterwards, I don't know, maybe fedora or even ubuntu, or some other linux distro. I really dislike the interface apple is adopting.

Cheers

i'm running lion for nearly 3 hours after a smooth upgrade.

i cannot saying anything negative about it right now. i haven't seen anything that doesn't work or respond. Even office 2008 works for me.

so, in other words, YES!

If you are talking Ubuntu and Fedora you are probably a developer of some kind. I have worked with all of those platforms and unless you can write your own special software programs you will be in the Open Source world forever. At 61 years of age I think i have seen enough software and operating systems to say that the Mac OS is by far the best one out there for the general consumer, serious graphic artists and designers, along with photographers. (See my previous post re Adobe Lightroom). I have attended many trade shows and seen amazing graphic work in Linux, but it is not for the average person, i.e. no Adobe interface to Linux. My take is simply run with the new OS if you can, if not stay with Snow Leopard until you feel comfortable with Lion.

Why when copying in the Finder can we no longer "skip duplicates"?

The people who recommend it, do they have this thing with Safari where you can't start up with your homepage AND have new tabs open on the same page? Do they scan often? Do they (want to) export videos with no compression?

It all depends what you're doing with it, ultimately. I for example have a lot of issues with Lion.

barryjb wrote:

If you are talking Ubuntu and Fedora you are probably a developer of some kind. I have worked with all of those platforms and unless you can write your own special software programs you will be in the Open Source world forever. At 61 years of age I think i have seen enough software and operating systems to say that the Mac OS is by far the best one out there for the general consumer, serious graphic artists and designers, along with photographers. (See my previous post re Adobe Lightroom). I have attended many trade shows and seen amazing graphic work in Linux, but it is not for the average person, i.e. no Adobe interface to Linux. My take is simply run with the new OS if you can, if not stay with Snow Leopard until you feel comfortable with Lion.

Thanks for your input. You're right. Adobe simply doesn't exist in Linux, that's why I adopted the mac platform so many years ago (OS 8). But I never abandoned the linux philosophy: "If there is no application that you need, write it, and make it simple so anybody can work from it", "avoid installers/assistants whenever you can", and so on.

I suppose I will have to keep my mac with Snow Leopard as far as I can. After all, the last release of ubuntu, 11.04, is heading also to the mobile look --I was thinking maybe 10.10. Or FreeBSD, now that's a powerful OS.

Cheers

It will disable Front Row and give you extra visual effects... honestly I just want Front Row back 😟

You wouldn't consider before making your snide comment that maybe my Search doesn't work like yours? It doesn't. I'm missing the switching To/From in the Search window. Maybe it would be more useful for you to first inquire and then provide an answer.

As for dumbing down, case made.

Before anyone installs Lion make a clone of your current system drive to an external drive so you restore it if you wish or anything goes wrong. If you have any PPC apps then you can keep this and run them on there when you need to but of course this is not realistic if they are apps you use all the time.

Otherwise Safari is blindingly fast compared to before so far no spinning beach ball of death and generally the system is noticeably faster and this is on an early 2008 iMac.

Mail I have reverted to classic look as on a desktop the new layout just does not work well.

Office 2008 works fine. Photoshop CS3 works fine better than it had been doing as I was having save issues and it kept crashing before. There are a lot of others apps I have which I haven't fully had time to test yet.

If you want quick and easy access to the now hidden library as well as a decent Finder i.e. tabbed and split browsing then try ToalFinder http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/

All in all I like Lion, just need to save the pennies to get Aperture.

As an ex-lightroom user, I will say that u will really appreciate Aperture when you do get. cheers!

Barney-15E wrote:

No, Office 2008 won't install. It will run, but the installer is PowerPC.

Actually, no it isn't. Office Mac 2008 installs just fine on Lion since it uses the built-in Installer app Apple provides.

I am quite happy with Lion. Mission control works for me much better than spaces. I like the gestures and I have had no problems with any of my software. They all work perfectly. I use an iPad so the scrolling change is not foreign to me. I did install Snow Leopard on an external drive before upgrading just in case, but I am happy to see Quicken 2006 go away. I am trying iBank now and I can fall back to Quicken on the external drive at any time.

ik this may be the wrong post but i have an imac 2.8 ghz intel quad core machine with 10.7 on there just installed still having problem's installing windows 7 on there could someone help me with this problem or do i need a new mac to run window's 7 on there

I can recommend it. I have a mid 2010 MBP i5 and have had few problems. The screensaver bug that wouldn't accept my password no matter how many times I tried was ugly, but I set that to run never. I did a clean install and manually brought my files and settings over and reinstalled my software, so maybe that helped. Before installing a did a complete clone and also a Time Machine backup, just in case I have to revert back to SL. After a few tweeks the interface seems like it's running fine. I haven't used full screen apps but don't plan on it right now. Seems to be running cool for now, but I haven't stress tested it yet. Battery life is OK, about the same as SL.

Hey guys, saying "it works great, I love it" doesn't help anyone much unless you add in your hardware model and identifier, the software and versions you're running and you've tested and some detail on the peripherals you have.

Please and Thanks.