Do you like Lion? Participate in the poll only if you have or have used Lion and below say what your favorite and least favorite things are about it.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Do you like Lion
- Thread starter supermac96
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
My only issues with Lion are that my Mac boots slower with 10.7 installed and my WiFi either drops or doesn't work at all causing me to have to restart my MBP to get it working again. I loved the full screen apps but i can't deal with the WiFi not working being i don't have the ability to sit with a hardline jacked in for my internet. I will install it again once they have fixed the bugs but for now I'm sticking with snow leopard which just downgraded to.
I'm having zero problems and am quite enjoying it!
Favorite: Mail, absolutely. So far no issues with FileVault 2, so that might be a close second.
Least Favorite: Launchpad. I never use it.
Favorite: Mail, absolutely. So far no issues with FileVault 2, so that might be a close second.
Least Favorite: Launchpad. I never use it.
Too many features to decide on which is my fave at the mo but definitely my least favourite has got to be the hit on my battery life.
So far so good and none of the issues I've read about on here other than it chews a bit more memory than SL but I'm fine with 8gb so...
(best) the mail app and mission control
(least) launchpad don't see the point
(best) the mail app and mission control
(least) launchpad don't see the point
![[DL]](/data/avatars/m/410/410081.jpg?1266785706){kind=avatar}
Favorite features:
-Full screen everything and the ability to scroll between full screen apps
-Mission control- doesn't feel like that far of a stretch from expose for me
-Gestures
-Autosave and Versions- I don't know how any student could dislike this. I wish I'd had these features years ago and I can't wait to get to school to use them.
Least favorite:
-Launchpad -WTF. maybe I'm just too stupid to find a use for it, but it feels like they went way too far in trying to iPad-ify the OS. I don't feel like it has a place on my computer.
-The new "natural" scrolling direction. Again, went too far in trying to iPad-ify the OS. Maybe I need to give it another chance, but it was too much of an awkward learning curve and I disabled it after a few hours.
Potentially unrelated: the App Store takes forever (I would estimate a full minute) to load. I'm assuming it will be fixed, but very bizarre.
But overall, love love love Lion.
-Full screen everything and the ability to scroll between full screen apps
-Mission control- doesn't feel like that far of a stretch from expose for me
-Gestures
-Autosave and Versions- I don't know how any student could dislike this. I wish I'd had these features years ago and I can't wait to get to school to use them.
Least favorite:
-Launchpad -WTF. maybe I'm just too stupid to find a use for it, but it feels like they went way too far in trying to iPad-ify the OS. I don't feel like it has a place on my computer.
-The new "natural" scrolling direction. Again, went too far in trying to iPad-ify the OS. Maybe I need to give it another chance, but it was too much of an awkward learning curve and I disabled it after a few hours.
Potentially unrelated: the App Store takes forever (I would estimate a full minute) to load. I'm assuming it will be fixed, but very bizarre.
But overall, love love love Lion.
I don't regret it since it was only $30. If I had known TRIM was irrelevant at the time, I wouldn't have been excited for it. Launchpad and backwards scrolling are both dumb, and easily disabled, so no harm there.
The new lock screen is a lot nicer looking, but sort of annoying, as it takes longer to get to it and unlock.
I like Mission Control, but it's not exactly an earth-shattering improvement over Expose.
The new lock screen is a lot nicer looking, but sort of annoying, as it takes longer to get to it and unlock.
I like Mission Control, but it's not exactly an earth-shattering improvement over Expose.
Favorite Feature: Mission Control / Spaces (Much better than in SL, this feature actually became useful. I can't imagine having a single desktop now 
)
Least Favorite: Launchpad (don't even get me started)
)Least Favorite: Launchpad (don't even get me started)
I can't stand the gesture for showing the desktop. For some reason, it's almost impossible for me to do. I keep accidentally doing the one for Mission Control.
I really miss being able to do an easy 4-finger swipe-up.
Why can't we customize the gestures more?
I really miss being able to do an easy 4-finger swipe-up.
Why can't we customize the gestures more?
clean installing lion from a bootable usb drive has made a huge difference....i had all kinds of issues I chalked up to lion bugs after clean installing from a disk.
Last edited:
Not like: Mission Control - it does not work for my work habits, as I have 12 Spaces, which are viewed easily in three rows and four columns than 12 tiny pictures on the top of the screen. And MC also ****ed Exposé up.
Like: Applications seem to open faster, but as I have an SSD on my work MBP with 10.6, I don't ****ing care about that.
I am seriously thinking about what to do when getting a new Mac down the road in one or two years, as 10.6 Macs will be harder to get then, and I can't work with Lion. For the home machine it is okay, but still buggy.
Anyway, Apple has set its eyes on the consumer, thus abandoning people with more specialised needs I guess. We'll see. If it weren't for Exposé and Spaces and QuickLook and the nice GUI, I would switch to Windows (Linux is out of the question due the applications I use.
Like: Applications seem to open faster, but as I have an SSD on my work MBP with 10.6, I don't ****ing care about that.
I am seriously thinking about what to do when getting a new Mac down the road in one or two years, as 10.6 Macs will be harder to get then, and I can't work with Lion. For the home machine it is okay, but still buggy.
Anyway, Apple has set its eyes on the consumer, thus abandoning people with more specialised needs I guess. We'll see. If it weren't for Exposé and Spaces and QuickLook and the nice GUI, I would switch to Windows (Linux is out of the question due the applications I use.
I'd like it more if they'd attend to some of the problems. Problems that should have been weeded out BEFORE it was released, I might add.
...sT
...sT
Favourite: New gestures and scrolling between spaces and multiple apps
Least Favourite: How Mission Control groups all windows of an application together making them hard to make out
Least Favourite: How Mission Control groups all windows of an application together making them hard to make out
Favourite: Full-screen apps, Mission Control
Least Favourite: Launchpad. What is point, Launchpad? What is point?
Least Favourite: Launchpad. What is point, Launchpad? What is point?
Good: Swiping between desktops rather than a key combo as I used with Spaces on SL, smaller close/maximize buttons, full-screen mode for apps
Bad: a few bugs with applications (ie. Chrome), now want a Magic Trackpad for my iMac so I can more easily replicate the same gestures that I use on my MBP
Overall, it hasn't been a game changer in terms of user experience and usability for me but has some nice aesthetic changes and good new features. I'm sure I'll find even more as time goes by.
Bad: a few bugs with applications (ie. Chrome), now want a Magic Trackpad for my iMac so I can more easily replicate the same gestures that I use on my MBP
Overall, it hasn't been a game changer in terms of user experience and usability for me but has some nice aesthetic changes and good new features. I'm sure I'll find even more as time goes by.
It's OK, given the price; would have been disappointed in it if it had cost more. I mostly bought it for the new security features and improved terminal. Spaces (now technically a part of Mission Control) is faster and more intuitive. Lack of official third party TRIM support is disappointing.
The iOS style changes and features are all completely useless (Launchpad? "Natural" scrolling?) and I've disabled most of them.
The iOS style changes and features are all completely useless (Launchpad? "Natural" scrolling?
) and I've disabled most of them.
A variation on my last....I would like Gestures a lot more if I could get them to work properly.
For some reason there are several which will not function for me. I've got something going on but I can't seem to get it worked out.
....sT
For some reason there are several which will not function for me. I've got something going on but I can't seem to get it worked out.
....sT
Favourite: New gestures and scrolling between spaces and multiple apps
Least Favourite: How Mission Control groups all windows of an application together making them hard to make out
swipe up with 2 fingers and it will expand the stack. Takes a little practice to get used to it.