Lion has what is a fatal flaw to me. There are no arrow buttons in the scrollbars. Not even an option for them!
I am aware of all the other ways to scroll, so don't waste our time telling me about them.
When I am reading a web page, I want to to be able to click down one line at a time until the paragraph at the bottom is not cut off, then click in the scrollbar to go down a page. And repeat.
Scrolling with a scrollwheel or trackpad lacks the precision of clicking the arrow button or clicking in the scrollbar to go down a page. It is to easy to undershoot or overshoot exactly where I want to go which is one line down at a time. This means is takes longer to do scrolling than clicking the arrow button.
I also know you can go down one line at a time with the arrow keys, but this requires taking my hand off the mouse which also takes longer and is extremely annoying.
Not having arrow buttons in the scrollbar is intolerable! I use them constantly, and if I can't scroll windows then I can't use the computer. So this makes any improvements that Lion may have worthless.
One line at a time is still precisely what the arrow key does. It is all also very easy to do it very precisely with the trackpad on a MBP.
That's great for fanboys and people who prefer entertainment gadgets to computers.
For the rest of us, it's more important that a new os or software can make full use of the power of multiple cores, memory, gpus, etc.
If Lion fails to improve on these over SL, then it's worthless for serious work and not much value, whatever the price.
I bet you said the same thing about Snow Leopard and that was its biggest feature.
Today I got OS X Lion. I couldn't await to install it and test the new features. So far everything worked like intended and I was happy… until I launched Launchpad. I'm sorry but I have to say that it's seriously the most useless application/feature Apple has ever invented.
I got a lot of applications on my Mac. Many of them are just useless, like uninstallers, helper apps, Adobe's madness to create an app for every single task, etc. I would never ever drag such apps to the dock or any other tool that helps me starting an application within an blink of an eye. But Launchpad found them and put them right into my view. I thought "well then, I'll have to remove them".
But there is no option to configure Launchpad other than to drag icons around and creating folders. Ridiculous. I started to put all these useless applications into a single folder until it was full and I needed to create a second folder. These folders are now on "page 2" of Launchpad – waste of space and every time I open up Launchpad I see this second dot, telling me that there are more apps on the second page. It drives me nuts.
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Is it just a goodie for Magic Mouse/Trackpad users? Even though I guess that there is no practical use for them either – at least if they use their computer for more than just surfing the web and writing a mail.
Launchpad uses a search path /Application ~/Applications maybe another path or two. Removing or adding files to the folders in that path will add them to launchpad. I use my computer for a lot more then browsing the web and email and so far I like launchpad. I doubt it will ever replace Alfred (mostly out of habit), but it is handy and easy to organize.
Hate Lion.
Put it on my little mba and will use it for now... to see if I get used to it.
So far, it's the very worst some of us feared, the iOS-ing of the Mac experience.
What a shame the direction Apple has decided to go.
Such as?
Things I hate so far:
no SMB Support
Yes there is.
Turn it off?
The devices menu is at the bottom of the sidebar
I know, great change.
gestures can not be changed properly
What?
Launch Pad shows a deinstaller for all Adobe products although they are all the same
Blame adobe, and/or remove them from the search path for launchpad.
itunes chrashed 5 times in 2 hours
Itunes 1.4 has not crashed for me yet.
free updates from itunes app store unavailable
Some people are having this problem, but updates are still working for me.
Same read only NTFS support of all the previous versions of OSX. I am sure Fuse will be updated so you can write. Microsoft can be a little ticky about people making commercial software to write NTFS volumes.
no import from outlook in mail
Would have been a great feature.
address book looks completely stupid (there is way too much iOS Stuff that makes NO sense whatsoever in a Desktop OS)
Never used it before, and have not opened it since upgrading. Will take your word for it.
no support for rosetta apps
If you needed Rosetta, you should not have upgraded. This was well publicized...
actually this could go on for a while
Things I like
mmmhh...nothing...really nothing at all - for me the worst OS since Windows ME.
*if somebody knows a good NFS Tutorial for Lion I'd appreciate the link.
At least you are a reasonable person...
None of them ever do, they just read that somewhere.
"Very Few Bugs" my a**.
I clearly remember how on the days when every single previous OS X version were released, many fanboys would rave about how there were "few" or even "no" bugs. Of course, they were extremely wrong. Such fanboys act as if Apple can do no wrong. The same types of fanboys vehemently denied (and still do to this very day) that the iPhone 4 antenna issue existed.
Apple's computers, smartphones, computer operating systems, and smartphone operating systems are, in my humble opinion, the best on the market. However, fanboys really need to pull their heads out of their a**es and stop their blind and fanatical Apple worship. Either give Apple criticism where criticism is due, or, at the very least, remain silent and stop vocally defending and denying when someone points out a flaw in an Apple product.
I would like to point out that the iPhone remains the best selling phone in the world and I seriously doubt anything matches its customer satisfaction ratings. I guess those people are all fan boys.
For a major OS releases, Lion is pretty stable. it is not perfect. A lot of the problems people are describing are developers who did not take advantage of the preview period to update their apps. Others are things that Apple just needs to fix. No one releases perfect software, but it is not as bad as you seem to want it to be.
