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Is ANYONE happy with Lion OS?
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I'm confused by this. When did OS X ever have a single finger contextual menu?
Also, how is it a bad angle? I'm not understanding the angle part... if you have a multitouch glass trackpad, you put two fingers down and click, same angle as one finger.
Loving Lion and I'm not Lying.
Although I did have to purchase a Magic Trackpad for my Mac Pro after using Lion on my MacBook Pro. The new touch navigation is great.
At first the Natural Scrolling was driving me nuts, but then I had to think about it in the same way that I use my iPad or iPhone; that you are no longer scrolling content through an open window, but rather grabbing the content in front of you and moving it. Its just a different way of thinking about it, but after a day it does seem quite natural.
Love the Launchpad, although I wish there was a Keyboard shortcut for it. I can't seem to create one in the System Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts...?
Mission Control is great. I never used Spaces as they never seemed to make sense to me.
As I'm typing this I think I discovered Lion has some kind of systemwide Autocorrect, unless that is part of this website. That's really helpful.
So, overall I think Lion is great.
P.S. I did a regular upgrade on my Macbook Pro and it was super easy. My Mac Pro was running so slow and had years of garbage apps in there, so I purchased a new SSD as a replacement and did a clean install. While that may clean up the junk if does make the upgrade process much more difficult trying to move iTunes and other apps/preferences to the new system. I see why now they really want you to just upgrade rather than start fresh as it is so much more work.
Although I did have to purchase a Magic Trackpad for my Mac Pro after using Lion on my MacBook Pro. The new touch navigation is great.
At first the Natural Scrolling was driving me nuts, but then I had to think about it in the same way that I use my iPad or iPhone; that you are no longer scrolling content through an open window, but rather grabbing the content in front of you and moving it. Its just a different way of thinking about it, but after a day it does seem quite natural.
Love the Launchpad, although I wish there was a Keyboard shortcut for it. I can't seem to create one in the System Preferences/Keyboard Shortcuts...?
Mission Control is great. I never used Spaces as they never seemed to make sense to me.
As I'm typing this I think I discovered Lion has some kind of systemwide Autocorrect, unless that is part of this website. That's really helpful.
So, overall I think Lion is great.
P.S. I did a regular upgrade on my Macbook Pro and it was super easy. My Mac Pro was running so slow and had years of garbage apps in there, so I purchased a new SSD as a replacement and did a clean install. While that may clean up the junk if does make the upgrade process much more difficult trying to move iTunes and other apps/preferences to the new system. I see why now they really want you to just upgrade rather than start fresh as it is so much more work.
I've been running Lion in one form or another for almost 3 months; on my secondary, non-production machine! I just this weekend rebuilt my production machine - so I'm all Lioned up. Although there are a few small things that are issues, there are far more features, that I'd rather not live without!
These forums are going to always be heavily influenced by those that have something to gripe about. BTW, gripe is not a bad word in my book!
John
These forums are going to always be heavily influenced by those that have something to gripe about. BTW, gripe is not a bad word in my book!
John
Ive been reading this forum on Lion OS, and, quite frankly, Im wondering if ANYONE is happy with it? Or is it just that contented Mac users dont post their thoughts here?
I upgraded the day it came out, and I havent had any problems, yet.
Its like when I purchased my first iMac.....all the complaints about yellow screens. I bought mine, never had that problem either.
Just my 2 cents.
Be thirsty my friends, and drink dos equis.
I've seen many, many people happy. I'm one of them. Considering they sold a million copies on day one, however many people complaining here is rather insignificant. I know a handful of people personally who have upgrade and had no problems.
Don't look at forums for a non-biased view of the overall satisfaction of users. Few people get on and make a post to tell everyone that their computer is working well and they don't have any issues. This forum is a place to solve problems, so that's what most of the posts are about. It's heavily slanted that way.
Just like mass media. The media aren't going to report that little Johnny went to school and had a good day. That isn't news (it doesn't sell and the whole world doesn't need to know that anyway). If you look at media as an unbiased view of the world, the picture is dark indeed.
Just like mass media. The media aren't going to report that little Johnny went to school and had a good day. That isn't news (it doesn't sell and the whole world doesn't need to know that anyway). If you look at media as an unbiased view of the world, the picture is dark indeed.
I love it and think it was well worth the thirty dollars. Sure it has bugs but it's the first release, you can't expect everything to run seamlessly on the first try.
I don't know what you're confused about. It was a standard up until Lion. In order to activate the contextual menu, you pointed to what you wanted the menu to apply to and then pressed the button. Now you have to move a second finger down next to the one doing the pointing.
I can't understand why anyone would install a .0 release and be surprised about bugs if you want a rock stable OS use a .8 release. That said the removal of iSync and front row was a cynical move IMO, but one that I've totally bypassed from my SL time machine backup
if you want a rock stable OS use a .8 release. That said the removal of iSync and front row was a cynical move IMO, but one that I've totally bypassed from my SL time machine backup 
Overall, I am happy with Lion. However... it's got some gnarly bugs with audio that I mentioned in another thread. I hope these get fixed. Also, I am disappointed in Apple's decision to not allow users to customize the installation of Lion anymore - mainly to remove the languages that Apple insists on installing by default.
Definitely not
Bricked my 2010 Mac Mini. So far the worst OS experience I have ever had. How hard is it Apple to test your ******** OS on the small limited number of hardware configurations you make available? Running off the shelf Mac Mini server with Snow-Leopard pre-installed. Did nothing special with it, downloaded Lion off the App store, attempted to upgrade, failed and now my Mac Mini kernel panics pointing to a Lion install boot image that is obviously corrupted. I can't even get into single user mode because it attempts to boot off the corrupted Lion install image rather then giving me access to the command line.
The world's most advanced OS is the most advanced piece of ***** OS I have ever tried to install, and the ******** thing cost me $79 because I was forced to buy the 14mb server app for an extra $50.
I am going to hurl this thing at the nearest Apple retail store and see if their "geniuses" can recover it, but I am sure this is already well past narrow minded turtleneck wearing pea-brains to figure out.
Bricked my 2010 Mac Mini. So far the worst OS experience I have ever had. How hard is it Apple to test your ******** OS on the small limited number of hardware configurations you make available? Running off the shelf Mac Mini server with Snow-Leopard pre-installed. Did nothing special with it, downloaded Lion off the App store, attempted to upgrade, failed and now my Mac Mini kernel panics pointing to a Lion install boot image that is obviously corrupted. I can't even get into single user mode because it attempts to boot off the corrupted Lion install image rather then giving me access to the command line.
The world's most advanced OS is the most advanced piece of ***** OS I have ever tried to install, and the ******** thing cost me $79 because I was forced to buy the 14mb server app for an extra $50.
I am going to hurl this thing at the nearest Apple retail store and see if their "geniuses" can recover it, but I am sure this is already well past narrow minded turtleneck wearing pea-brains to figure out.
You can. Go to system preferences, then keyboard, then mission control. You will realize you can assign hotkeys for each one of your desktops. So you can even use cmd+5/6/7/8/9/0 if you want...
i feel for you really. but maybe...call apple, and/or take it to the genius bar, and get it sorted out.
my brother has a 2010 mini, and updated without problems. SOMETHING happened with yours; get it fixed...!
No offence, but you'd have to be insane to install a .0 release on a server. All lion users are basically beta testers at the moment. I wouldn't try reinstalling until it's at .3 or even .4.
On a more constructive note, you either need to use time machine to revert back or use torrents/usenet/different computer to download a non-corrupted dmg for lion.
ha. I was wondering the same thing! It seems like a lot of people on here are having problems with it.
Best OS ever, works superbly on laptops. full screen apps and multitouch gestures work really well.
I don't think it works too well on big screens though. Full screens apps etc.
I don't think it works too well on big screens though. Full screens apps etc.