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Are You Happy With Lion?

Are You Happy with Lion?

  • Yes: I am using it and am sticking with it

    Votes: 129 65.8%

  • Maybe: I've temporarily switched back to SL but will switch back when the bugs are fixed

    Votes: 23 11.7%

  • No: Give me Snow Leopard Back!

    Votes: 44 22.4%
  • Total voters
    196
  • Poll closed .
Loving Lion on my MBP..

I had a problem with the audio hardware controls going out after rebootsand requiring the plugging/unplugging of headphones to get it to work again..

However, i turned it on yesterday and the controls worked right away..weird, but I'll take it.
 
i am happy overall, but there are things i don't like, bugs and stuff. my biggest gripe:

i don't know if it's just me, but when i command-tab to get to an application that's in another desktop (space), it won't actually change spaces to get there.


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yay, in the mission control settings, there's an option: "when switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application."
 
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I am sticking with Lion. I like having the latest OS and I am too lazy to switch back.

But I am annoyed at the lack of functionality of Launchpad (a feature I REALLY wanted). Also, my system runs much slower sometimes. It takes a long time for apps to load. Kind of annoying.
 
HELL NO!



I still don't know if I want to use my 2-finger swipe to navigate webpages or scroll through windows. BUT I DO KNOW ONE THING: There must be a hotkey that you can hold to change the behavior of the 2-finger gestures. Agreed?
 
h4lp m3 said:
HELL NO!



I still don't know if I want to use my 2-finger swipe to navigate webpages or scroll through windows. BUT I DO KNOW ONE THING: There must be a hotkey that you can hold to change the behavior of the 2-finger gestures. Agreed?
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Would be a good idea..

Any 3rd party software do this?
 
I'm very happy with Lion and purposely bought a Magic mouse because of the feature. it works well.

I don't have problem like a lot of people complains about but these are just my point of view for those having problem with Lion. maybe you should consider a clean install. upgrading from old system with so many 3rd party software after so many years might be the reason that created some kind of conflict. how much you have paid for the others application? Lion are just 29.90 compare with all the other software that you are using. I don't think apple are able to fine tune to suite all of them in one go and where can you find a new OS that doesn't need to fine tune? I have been with windows many years. and this macbook pro are my 1st apple unit. loving it more everyday. 🙄
 
No dude, I'm talking about a hotkey to change it on the fly.
Nobody's going to go into the system preferences, change it, swipe the pages and go back into the system prefs again and change it again everytime you need to go back a page in your browser... might as well just click the little arrow. 🙄
 
Very happy with Lion. The only bug I've experienced so far is sometimes it takes too long or doesn't come out of sleep at all. I'm pretty sure Apple with fix this with an update promptly as many are having the same issue. Other than that Lion as been flawless for me and seems noticeably snappier.
 
Haven't had any real issues. The only thing I changed was the scroll direction. I did take the precaution of updating all of my apps like 1Password and SuperDuper before installing Lion. I downloaded Lion from the App store then copied the "Install Mac OSx Lion" app to another disk before starting the update. I don't have any odd 3rd party kernel extensions, so maybe that helped.
 
Nice to know most on this thread seem to be happy. However, I have seen enough problems discussed on the forums that I am sitting on the fence until an update. I have also created a clone of my drive that I will eventually instal it on when the next version is released. This will give me an easy way back.
 
Yes vote here. Love Lion, no issues at all here, super fast and everything is working A1. On a Mid 2010 iMac.
 
No Lion, No Way

No Lion for me. I’ve reverted both of my Macs back to Snow Leopard. Lion is gimmicky, juvenile, dumbed down, visually ugly and of course littered with v0 issues. It really looks like Apple is concentrating on the Noobie/tablet crowd at the expense of experienced, serious users who like to choose their workflow.

It could be that Lion is test to see how people would react. Whether the tabletization of OS X continues into the future is yet to be seen. Users who like to control their computing environment or who want to use such radical, outdated technology such as optical drives, USB3, eSata and high-end GPUs may have to move back to into the Windows camp.

The Mac's total system of integrating mail, calendars, contacts, and photos into one great system spanning desktops, laptops and phones is what first attracted me to the platform. With iCal and Address Book becoming fugly and with versions and autospell goofing up workflow MS Office isn't looking all that bad lately.
 
gentlefury said:
OK, so EVERYTIME this is posted the majority is happy....so why do these keep popping up and why do we keep also seeing threads stating that everyone is having problems and everyone hates Lion? It's simply not true!
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If everyone is having problems then this form would be overloaded with people. Think of it like this, The people who have a problem have questions and need help. So they come here and ask for help. The people who don't have problems have no need to post about anything. What would we post about? We might answer the question to the people who have problems, just about it.

So no it's not "simply not true". It is true. Most people are happy with lion and a few are having problems. You have to look at the whole picture, not just a part of it, a very small part.
 
Everything is nice and pretty, but it destroys my battery, even when its asleep. I just let it sit for 3 hours and it went from 100% battery to 72%. thats ********, in SL I could use it on and off for over 10 hours and be fine, at this rate I cant leave it asleep for 10 hours.
 
scottsjack said:
No Lion for me. I’ve reverted both of my Macs back to Snow Leopard. Lion is gimmicky, juvenile, dumbed down, visually ugly and of course littered with v0 issues. It really looks like Apple is concentrating on the Noobie/tablet crowd at the expense of experienced, serious users who like to choose their workflow.

It could be that Lion is test to see how people would react. Whether the tabletization of OS X continues into the future is yet to be seen. Users who like to control their computing environment or who want to use such radical, outdated technology such as optical drives, USB3, eSata and high-end GPUs may have to move back to into the Windows camp.

The Mac's total system of integrating mail, calendars, contacts, and photos into one great system spanning desktops, laptops and phones is what first attracted me to the platform. With iCal and Address Book becoming fugly and with versions and autospell goofing up workflow MS Office isn't looking all that bad lately.
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Totally agree. I installed Lion on only one 'extra' mac I have just to test it out, and can't get used to it. So many of the changes are cosmetic and don't improve functionality at all. For me there are no new and innovative features that make me more productive as there were in Leopard and SL (I switched from Windows to Mac at Tiger). Leopard brought us Time Machine and Stacks, these were actually totally NEW features, which made me more productive (or saved my butt a few times). SL brought Spaces, which again made me more productive. In Lion we get a 'new' look to Mail?, a mashing of Spaces and Expose together into 'mission control'? Dashboard now wipes the screen just to see the widgets?, Stacks is turned into 'iOS-like' launchpad?, and the Finder sidebar is stripped of icons and the text is in a less readable gray instead of black?? None of these will make me more productive. I think Lion has ALTERED the user experience, but not necessarily improved it.

To me Lion is 95% about getting all those iPad/iPhone/iPod touch users to try macs. It's a huge customer base that Apple would love to move to the Mac. It's very little about improving the productivity of SL users.
 
Where did you see this number?

chillvisio said:
WOW! 16.44% of voters are unhappy with Lion and they are still using it?!?
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I know the %'s change but I don't see the category you describe. I think I fall in that but did not see it as an option in the poll.

I am unhappy but view Lion an inevitable so better get used to it and hope 10.7.01 comes soon.
 
It has been working fine for me. It runs exactly the same for my needs. I don't use any of the new features except fullscreen ocassionally. Also, new mails seems to run better.
 
I have some issues, but not enough to make me go back. Also I think that most if not all the issues will be sorted out on updates.
 
I'm loving it. Only problem that I have on both of my Macs is sometimes I have trouble downloading from a website in Safari. I get a dark screen and the file never downloads. A few others have reported the issue on the Apple forums so I am not alone on this. Not worth switching back to SL over.
 
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Hate it
 
Not Happy

For my tastes (emphasis on "My") Lion is too gimicky. I do love the mail app. My opinion is not based on bugs, since bugs can eventually get fixed. I mostly look at the things are are here to stay with the OS, and in my case, I do not like the retro look given to iCal and Contacts. I also do not like spaces, and I think that Air Drop is clunky and not as efficient as other forms of transfer, though I grant it is much easier to use if you are not computer savvy.

I gave in and got y new Air, which is what I am using Lion on. My other two macs are still running SL. I'll just have to wait and see as I use both version which one is more natural to me.
 
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