Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Easy for you to say. That may be true for and work for simple things but Lion is a huge mess for any serious work. But, I'm glad you find it useful, just don't expect others to get along with it as swimmingly as you do. On the surface Lion is easy enough for simple tasks, but for complex workflow if fails miserably.

I assumed you were referring to me as not doing serious work.

I'd stay with your existing operating system for another couple of months. Lion needs a bunch of things fixed before you should make the switch. My opinion after a month now of using Lion everyday on a brand new MacBook Pro with 8 is your existing operating system is fast and effecient while Lion so far reduces productivity.

I recently upgrade to Lion from 10.6. Errorlessly and effertlessly. Would I recommend it? For myself; yes. There are features I was attracted to and some not. Being brought up on Mac and followed by many years on Windows, and then converting back to Mac 2 years ago, I have more forgivness to the system and will put in the time needed to learn their system. It's easy for me to adapt to Mac's change.

I also run Windows XP on Fusion Ware a lot because of CAD and ***. Runs amazingly well and faster on Lion. This is the only area I did have trouble with the update. I also updated to Fusion 4 following the Lion update. It to went very well. I had a problem with one of my large format printers conncting with Windows through the Mac. It took me seven hours to get to the bottom of it. Now it works better than it ever did!! Anyone that operates Fusion or Parrelles noes full well you can sometimes spend a lot of time clearing up printing issues through Windows.

I have sympathy for the ones with issues. Maybe it's time to read a manual.

Also; I have a track pad in conjunction with the majic mouse. Awesome combonation. The gestures on the track pad are great.

Thanks MAC.

NO,

Not unless you need iCloud and are willing to go backwards with other features

lxhunter wrote:

NO,

Not unless you need iCloud and are willing to go backwards with other features

Backwards on which other features?

I wonder how many or few have looked at Tutor for Lion in the App Store? Basic but worth a few £ or $.

ScotMij wrote:

I wonder how many or few have looked at Tutor for Lion in the App Store? Basic but worth a few £ or $.

I have not looked at it, but I will check it out, I sometimes have to recommend instructional material to others, thanks.

Backwards on which other features?

For us it was Versions cannot be switched off (decreases security). No "Save As" in many Apps, no Bounce in Mail. 10.7 felt “dumbed down” to us. We will try later, (10.8 maybe).

Our office went back to Snow Leopard and we are very happy.

Ziatron wrote:

For us it was Versions cannot be switched off (decreases security).

People are still trying to push Versions as a security risk?

No "Save As" in many Apps...

Good. "Duplicate" works far better and is a better paradigm anyway. Not that there are "many" apps, aside from Apple's, doing it yet.

no Bounce in Mail.

Also good. Doesn't do what most people think it does anyway, and it's not the job of the client to bounce mail.

Ziatron wrote:

Backwards on which other features?

For us it was Versions cannot be switched off (decreases security). No "Save As" in many Apps, no Bounce in Mail. 10.7 felt “dumbed down” to us. We will try later, (10.8 maybe).

Our office went back to Snow Leopard and we are very happy.

User preferences will never be uniform, some like the changes, others don't, I am not bothered either way really, they seem like minor changes for me to accommodate. I respect that others may well not feel the same.

So 'backwards' is relative, depends on which way your facing I guess.

I wonder how many or few have looked at Tutor for Lion in the App Store? Basic but worth a few £ or $.

Wow. A surprising first, that users should have need to consult a manual to use a new Apple OS -- especially an OS that's so minor.

Either the OS is too odd or opaque, or the users too dumbed down. I favor the former explanation. But the latter is part of the plan, isn't it?

No "Save As" in many Apps...

Good. "Duplicate" works far better and is a better paradigm anyway. Not that there are "many" apps, aside from Apple's, doing it yet.

no Bounce in Mail.

Also good. Doesn't do what most people think it does anyway, and it's not the job of the client to bounce mail.

Thanks. Very authoritative. I hear there's a job at Apple for a new COO.

No, 'backwards' is removing functions that people find valuable.

No, backwards is people refusing to learn more efficient ways to use their computer system and wanting to stay in the past. OSX was a disaster, then Tiger and Leopard in particular and Lord help us when Snow Leopard came along and almost destroyed mankind. All h*ll broke loose on these forums. And loosing tabs on top in Safari? Disasterous!!! But now they are the greatest systems ever and 'Lion' is a dud. Ah how I love nostalgia, ah and how I love Lion. Use it for more than a day and you will get very used to the new features if you give them a chance.

keats

Ziatron wrote:

Backwards on which other features?

For us it was Versions cannot be switched off (decreases security).

I don't have security worries; I just loathe Versions and want a way to disable it. 😠