I love my Mac as much as everyone here - really. I'll never own anything else. But let's stop ignoring the Gorilla standing in the corner of the room because we are afraid to let Apple know that we are horribly disappointed in Lion. sure, it has a few cool bells and whistles that set it apart from Snow Leopard but compared to Snow Leopard in is slow as heck and dare I say the word, often unstable. I could not wait to upgrade to Lion and I was never more disappointed afterward. After about 30 days of using it and suffering from almost constant "spinning umbrellas" and an almost brand new MacBook Pro that hangs up during reboots making it necessary to hit the physical power button to complete the operation - I pulled up an old Time Machine backup and gave my Mac what it wanted - a Snow Leopard reinstall. The machine was immediately faster again and I am overjoyed.
Let's see a show of hands - who else finally decided to call Lion a loss of $29 and went back to Snow Leopard? Let's tell Apple what they need to fix to keep "We The Customers" happy.
Dear OP,
I will echo GGStudios remarks in post #25 here: threads like this are instantly triggering all kind of suspicions about the underlying intentions.
For everyone who has serious issues arising from the upgrade to Lion, theres one thing to do, much more likely to yield results than bitching on MacRumors.com:
Click this link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html and explain the problem.
Now, for the sake of discussion, I have some hard truths as well about OS X Lion:
Since its official launch, up to now, Lion has remained top-paid and top-grossing product in the Mac App Store;
Folks who buy new Macs, necessarily loaded with Lion, dont massively return their purchase to Apple.
That does not mean that Lion is exempt of issues, but it suggests all the bickering is somewhat overblown.
Bugs are bugs; they will be fixed in time. But practically Lion is not THAT buggy, its actually quite impressive how few bugs have appeared for a significant update like this one.
Having to change habits always sucks when said habits are deeply ingrained; however those who claim that the changes made their Mac unusable are making fools of themselves with that kind of hyperbole (unless they were exclusively using PowerPC legacy software, but that was clear enough from the start that Rosetta wouldnt be supported anymore).
Who knows, perhaps if enough people click on the link I posted above asking Apple to reinstate the possibility of using the old way of Spaces and Expose, Apple would look into doing it. Theyre not tonedeaf, they backpedal when they find its necessary (as they just did, with allowing new sales of FCP9 licenses.)
But another hard truth of mine is that I highly doubt the portion of users who wont adapt to the new-minted Mission Control is significant enough to warrant such effort that would inevitably bloat the OS.
