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Downgrading to Snow Leopard anybody?

I like Lion,

But I have noticed loads of little bugs that are annoying: i.e. my dock randomly dissapears so does the menubar etc etc etc

If you don't like resume you can turn it off my going to system preferences> general> uncheck "Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps" I wouldn't want this on all of my apps but it would be useful on some, unfortunately it's all or nothing...

The most annoying thing and I bet apple won't sort this out.. if i go full screen it only does it on the primary screen not on a secondary screen...

For me Lion is just buggy it's a good OS, but apple probably should have made everyone run a compatibility checker.. it would tell you if there were apps that wouldn't run or if their were updates for certain apps that needed to be done before you ran the lion update...

After a few dot releases it will be great, until now if you rely on your mac for work stay with snow leopard.. if you use your mac for play and you're complaining.. go for a walk to calm down.. it's summer :D
 
I upgraded back to Snow Leopard this morning.

Mission Control is just too much of a downgrade for me.
 
How did you guys go about downgrading to snow leopard without problems?

And can it be done only with a snow dmg?
 
I say give Lion a chance for about a month or so. You defiantly didn't let it soak in enough. It's like putting steak on a grill for 30 seconds and saying it's not cooking.
 
ajvizzgamer101 said:
I say give Lion a chance for about a month or so. You defiantly didn't let it soak in enough. It's like putting steak on a grill for 30 seconds and saying it's not cooking.
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LOL! Agreed!

I hated Lion at first, but the UI refinements throughout the whole OS and the speediness on my MacBook Pro made me stick. I feel more productive in Lion, especially with the full screen mode.
 
ajvizzgamer101 said:
I say give Lion a chance for about a month or so. You defiantly didn't let it soak in enough. It's like putting steak on a grill for 30 seconds and saying it's not cooking.
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I can't do my work properly with Mission Control instead of Exposé/Spaces really, so keeping it isn't an option. I'll upgrade again if they let users have more control over MC.

As for downgrading, you might need to make a DVD from the image (if that's possible) as I could only get it to boot the disc by holding 'c' on startup.
 
Right …

G-Force said:
I miss the good old Tiger days. :D
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I do too.
Everything was finally in an incredible productive state and was usable.

It all started – in my opinion – as Apple released the iPhone and begun to limit the OS whilst favour the iPhone [e.g. dropped the SMS-feature in Address Book to make it exclusively for iPhone users].
Since the iFever™ Apple totally lost the focus on its main products like the Mac OS & the Mac's.
But it already started to happen with the untold MacIntels …

I was a great fan of Apple products from the very beginning, my first Mac was the good old Mac Plus back in the eighties and i was fully addicted & convinced about that company and its main idea – such a Mac evangelist, as many would call those people.

But since a few years, beginning with the iProducts, they became more and more snotty and dumb over their freakin eye-candy iCrack while loosing the ability to pinpoint the essentials.

It sounds strange, but since Windows 7 i'm totally fine.
I got a system which lets me make my stuff, as i wish and when i wish – and the way i wish to do it.

And the most important thing of all, i'm not sorry at all for leaving that folk alone since they worked hard for it to make it happen, they just earned it.

There will be a rude awakening with Lion.
Don't wanna really know, how many gutted people will switch [back] to Windows or Linux or whatever.
I know, it's just 'the day after', but i've never ever seen so freakin' much problems and disappointment and users yelling about the 'newest Advantages' – ever, since the last decades!

They totally overdraw the iHype and messed the whole thing up.
Enough is just enough. :(


In this sense

Smartcom
 
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I downloaded and upgraded to Lion yesterday, and I'm already thinking of reformatting and going back with Snow Leopard. Not only is my 2010 MacBook Pro significantly slower and laggier, but I really don't like or need any of the new features (maybe w/ the exception of fullscreen apps), and I actually dislike a lot of the changes (scrolling, MISSION CONTROL *cough* hate it *cough*, the useless Launch Pad, etc.).

In fact, if this is where Apple is heading, Windows 7 is sounding better and better (I used to have it, and actually liked it).
 
I installed Lion yesterday morning, and reverted back to Snow Leopard yesterday afternoon (thank you CCC!).

The new Mail is nice, but the sidebar is bloated and dull. Just too many compromises and annoying changes to stick with Lion, until fixes appear. The new iCal is ugly and less functional, Address Book is less functional. Finder doesn't allow you to show devices at the top of the sidebar, and it doesn't show any speed or 'amazing' new features that make the compromises worth it IMHO.

Not to mention all the apps it makes obsolete, MactheRipper, CS1, Office 04, etc.
 
Orlandoech.com said:
Yes it does, go into Finder Preferences and enabled them.
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In SL, the sidebar is 'Devices' 'Places' 'Search for', in Lion it's 'Favorites' then 'Devices'. I'm not talking about showing devices like HD's, iPods, etc. I'm talking about the order of how things appear in the Sidebar. It's stupid and simple but should be customizable.
 
I wasn't very happy with the seemingly downgraded performance of Lion over Snow Leopard, but after doing a fresh install (wiped out the hard drive), it seems just as speedy as Snow Leopard ever did (and no more lagging dock issue).
 
Downgrading, really? :)

Yes,

I have to downgrade too. I have been using Mac's since 1986 and this step towards melting iOS and OSX together is not favoring the Mac, in my opinion.

A have a Mac Pro with 16 GB ram, 4 disk RAID 0 system, and it was pretty responsive in 10.6.8 and has totally died on me with 10.7.0.

When I open a document via Finder, ie. a Numbers document or even just opening Apple Mail, it takes about 30 seconds... Running 10.6.x it took a blink of an eye = 0.1 second.

Also this thin with reversing scrolling, removing scrollbars, removing lots of small data holders like the one in the button of a Finder windows stating how much data was left on the disk the folder was on, and so on, is bad, in my opinion. The same goes with loosing the colors in both Finder, Apple Mail. Now I have to read everything instead of going for a logo or icon. Also loosing the calendar menu on Apple iCal is bad for me. Now I have to pop it up, to make a remark in another calendar.

Like others state here, I also thought of moving to Windows 7, with seems more like something I could use. But I stick with Apple for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpEoZYFLkw

So by by Lion. Back in your cave. I got to get my Snow Leopard back.... even if it might be a bust to get mails back ind from a newer app...

I will try.


Best of luck to the rest of you!

:)
Gert Sterner
Denmark, Europe
 
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Just finished going back to my legit copy of Snow Leopard. I installed the GM of Lion I downloaded and have used it about a week. It's nice, but I'm going to wait till they come out with 10.7.1 or .2 and then I'll purchase it through the app store.
 
ajvizzgamer101 said:
I say give Lion a chance for about a month or so. You defiantly didn't let it soak in enough. It's like putting steak on a grill for 30 seconds and saying it's not cooking.
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Precisely. On the outside Lion may not seem all that appealing, but it has a lot of under-the-hood changes and some useful new features. Even if you're dissatisfied at first, give it a chance. I thought it was some crap the first time I used it. It didn't take too long to realize all of the useful new additions. If you never grow to like it, just downgrade to Snow Leopard. Nothing wrong with that.
 
I am considering doing the same.

Lion is slow on my older MacBook, which may just be because it is an older computer too, but snow leopard was really fast. I have experienced some bugs which are annoying too. It is not really feeling like much of an upgrade.

I may wait it out though and see how 10.7.1 Is.
 
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