Apple killed OSX with Lion

Agreed with the OP

It was a major step up from Leopard that the four finger swipe brought up the heads-up screen and Desktop. Now the only way to see all apps open is command-Tab. This is a step backwards.

Agreed the thumb-three finger, not only awkward does not work 50% of the time, making it much harder to get to the Desktop. This is something you do all the time ! Back to fn-F11 or conveniently control-click mission control icon on the Dock.This is a step backwards.

MissionControl ? Not so useful if you can not access the open and hidden files, what where they thinking???

Three finger, four finger, Dock icon why all those options for MissionControl at the expense of the most useful in a day today day work machine.

Hopefully they can modify the TrackPad preferences in a future update to bring these most functional gestures back!

LaunchPad in a word, useless.

Please make your voice heard:http://www.apple.com/feedback/

The reason is that OS X Lion is really just a cosmetic update. Not that I'm joining the ranks of complainers, but frankly, it doesn't actually do anything that I couldn't already do in 10.6.

Versions? Really, I know it's under the hood, but folks, this is the game changer. Never have to save anything again? Undo right back to the beginning? You couldn't do that in Snow Leopard.

Versions? Really, I know it's under the hood, but folks, this is the game changer.

Not really. While I grant you that its a technical improvement, is it really a day-to-day practical one? When was the last time you lost your work on a Mac from not saving? Never happened to me in seven years.

Most anyone who's been around a computer for more than ten minutes has learned to habitually save without even thinking about it anyway, but truly I haven't lost a piece of work from not saving since 2004 (the year I stopped using PC's that crashed unexpectedly and switched to Apples that are inherently stable; and even when they're weren't, there was always ways to recover...).

I grant you Versions would be handy on a PC, or even for my Parallels Win 7 emulator... 😝

Versions? Really, I know it's under the hood, but folks, this is the game changer. Never have to save anything again? Undo right back to the beginning? You couldn't do that in Snow Leopard.

I'm not that disorganized that I need 25 versions of my spreadsheet or letter - once they're updated or final, I no longer need a previous version. And, combined with Resume, those versions can quickly become a nuisance, especially when they pop back out of the trash just because you just launched Preview. I've experienced it. And, if I want to undo back to the beginning, what's wrong with a "select all/part - delete"? So, I will turn off Resume and ignore Versions hoping it will ignore me as well.

Going back to Snow Leopard this weekend. Why did they take so much time to come up with this?

I kid you not, I had about a dozen or crashes so far. Nothing wrong with my disk. The display flickers, doesn't refresh properly and then crashes.

There's not one single feature that I care for in Lion. Sorry Apple, Lion doesn't cut it.

It is likely that you have the defective graphics card and should return you laptop to apple to have it fixed their is documentation of the issue but I don't remember where. You might attempt to reset pram this should reduce crashes. Your system is overusing the graphic card do to a pram error. Or at least this is my best guess. I agree about Lion being junk an OS is just that an operating system and should not have any of these feture unless you want them you should be able to choose what junk you want. Expecially the scroll bar the new one ***** a big one unless you have a new mouse or trackpad.

I think a lot of it comes down to familiarity and personal preference, rather than Lion being at all bad.

I wasn't convinced by MC at first, as I was so used to Spaces and Expose. 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. Now you have to first select the Space, and move any wondows to one of the small desktops along the top.

And 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.

But 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.

And 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.

Launchpad I like more than I thought I would. 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.

You can customize the way you want the idea is make the experience better and i think apple work hard for that may we need get to use ..

All of this is easily configurable with a program called "Better Touch Tool". It's very popular because it works wonders. It's also free through donations.

It pays to be informed. If you don't have time to read all 27,000 words, jump to the conclusion. I was having the same reaction as many folks here until I read this last night.

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. It corrupted my start up disc=locked disc, only solution clean install. 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. So it was the worst possible time to have a system crash. I lost important family videos of my mother recovering from Lupus etc... all gone, Logic projects, photos, mail, text files.

I love the concepts in Lion, but i agree it's by far the buggiest OS X version thus far. The dock won't respond when i hiding, which i agree requires restart. Also if you have it set to the sides, you still have to hover the pointer at the bottom and can't access the sides when hiding is on of course since it minimizes as you try to get the pointer over there lol. The only sure way to make it work is have it set with hiding off, or set Launch Pad in a hot corner and access it then the dock pops up, sometimes it also lags when it should be minimizing after Launch Pad is closed etc.

Another complaint i have is the swiping gesture while using Safari, it's too sensitive and jumpy. I've lost countless posts as i just barely nugde the magice mouse slightly and it moves the web page forward/back and when you return to the page to post comments the text it completely gone. It's beyond annoying. I have to carefully grab the mouse as not to inadvertantly lose my post as i go to post it.

I was mad as **** at first, Waiting so long for this OS. Then, this is gone that's gone ....ect...ect... I was fixing to go back to SL, but decided to give a bit due to the pain of re-install of SL. But now after using it and fixing all the little things that were the main part of my unhappiness, Like the Library folder, changing the linen on start up and mission control, (which i like better than spaces at this point) re-learning mail,........I could go on and on with all the things i hated at first. The upgrades to Automator and Scripteditor are killer. My opinion is if you already have it, give it a chance, If your a hard core mac user than you can probably fix all the small things that annoy, and once their fixed that's it. Ya its a PITA but it is a major upgrade. If you wanted another SL then i guess you didn't get Lion in the first place right? We all wanted something different and better and that's what we got. Might not seem so now but once the updates get out to tie up the loose ends it will be worth it. That being said, i had no problems with the install or setup. If it had bricked up MBP I probably would have a different outlook. But for me it was pretty smooth. It was the difference between Lion and the best OS that ever was, SL, that was almost the deal breaker. But I gave it a chance and im glad I did.

end rant.....

already did the clean install, still have quikiness regarding the Dock lol. I should get my new PS3 HDD then i'll hook up my back up drive for Time Machine, plus i bought 100 pack of dvd-r to finally burn all this stuff and get it off my other backup drive. I'm still wondering about Blu-ray burners to use with Mac etc... would make backing up a lot easier with less discs. I've had this happen 3 times in the past, so i guess i never learn haha. Thanks for the reply and advice.

This is EXACTLY how I feel!

-I really depend on the application switch gesture. Windows management on a mac is actually fairly difficult and this appliction switch gesture was a really helpful way to quickly switch back and forth between applications and close/hide/minimize any application at a glance.

-I never could get the spread finger gesture to work for show desktop. Luckily this is actually fixable. If you install BetterTouchTools you can configure show desktop to four fingers and it works exactly like it works in SL. You even still get the function of returning to your windows by swiping in the opposite direction.

I have application switcher set to a four finger tap with better touch tools which is ok but not as good as how it was set up with SL.

All Apple had to do was leave it as an option...