Ooh, ooh, can I play?
Forgive me if this all comes off as bitter, because I'm feeling a bit betrayed by Apple right now as a professional user. It is quite obvious they no longer have our best interests in mind.
1) ICC/ColorSync profiles are broken in Finder.app when viewing image icons (the ICC/ColorSync profile is not taken into account, and the image icon appears oversaturated... Effects PNG, JPEG, TIFF, ICNS, etc files)
2) Mission Control is !@#$ing useless. Expose was designed to let you see EVERYTHING with one clean animation. Mission Control fails at even this, by stacking windows together.
3) Where are my virtual desktops? The ones I could drag apps between and rearrange?
4) Samba support is broken, due to a lack of legacy support for authentication. This can be re-enabled via Terminal.app but it is stupid that anyone should have to resort to this.
5) No keyboard repeat, or any option to re-enable it. Yay, another terminal hack for that.
6) DNS search order is hopelessly munged, when working with hosts in both /etc/hosts and dscl (via "/Local/Defaults/Hosts"). Again, no options to change that.
7) No way to disable all the god-aweful animations. I don't want my dialogue boxes taking 0.75 seconds to appear. I don't want to wait a full second for Mail.app to do it's little hippity-hop-into-a-new-window animation. This stuff is all for magpie users who are attracted to shiny objects.
8) VBOs in OpenGL are crippled with the legacy OpenGL APIs. This affects both Cinema 4D and Modo, at least until fixes are made available.
9) Hardware RAID support seems weird. 10.7 seems to "flood" the RAID array (this is an Apple RAID card) in such a way that it blocks other applications from accessing the array temporarily. For example, installing Xcode and listening to music in iTunes will cause iTunes to jump and skip. This is triggerable under any heavy disk I/O, and isn't present in 10.6.8.
10) Color. GIVE ME BACK MY COLOR. I do not want a greyscale operating system. It looks sloppy and rushed, and I don't care what SJ says about it. The color has been leeching out of both Mac OS X and most Apple apps for a while now, and I'm sick and tired of it.
11) Font rendering in titlebars and toolbars is annoyingly difficult to read- mostly due to the shades of grey that they're now using, which are closer to each other then they were in 10.6.8. Likewise, icons in the toolbars seem to be effected by a similar issue.
12) Kernel panics when mounting multiple UDF filesystems over a network (in a dmg container). This is fairly easy to trigger- just try to mount ~12 of them at the same time. Sooner or later the machine panics and dies due to the UDF filesystem extensions.
13) iTunes 10.4 occasionally "freaks out" and refuses to mount/recognize a device (errors in Console.app about not being able to connect to lockdownd- these are not jailbroken devices). Attempting to restore a device when iTunes refuses to mount it will brick that device. You have to reboot and attempt to restore the device in DFU mode before things will start working again (I'm not sure why or what triggers this- I just know that it's never happened in 10.6.8, and I've restored hundreds of devices before- mostly test/development iPads).
14) Where are my legacy wallpapers? I miss the Abstract ones. They were simple and clean and nice when set to rotate every 30 minutes- all I ever needed.
15) Finder is backwards. It makes no sense to have media at the bottom. Media should be at the top, especially internal hard drives as this is where everything is inevitably stored.
16) Preview.app appears to be backwards too- the panel is on the left side now, instead of the right.
17) Versioning... WTF? Do not want. I can handle versioning myself, thank you very much. This whole duplicate-then-save thing is inferioratingly bizarre. Who came up with that?
18) Scroll bar arrows. Yet another option we don't have that should be somewhere.
19) No ability to remove (hide) stuff from Launchpad (like those Adobe uninstallers)
20) Sort-by/Arrange-by... Another WTF? Why is this stuff so goddam complicated all of a sudden? The Finder in 10.6 was perfectly fine at doing it's job.
21) Variable widths inbetween folders... When resizing a window, folders "spread out" before they snap to a new arrangement (ie, more or less per line). This is insanely annoying. When I set a grid spacing in View Options, I expect it to maintain that grid spacing. Not to vary a little bit depending on if the window is wider or smaller then required to change the number of items per line.
I can actually go on and on and on.
This -is- Apple's Vista. I suppose it was inevitable. But I do not appreciate investing $$$$$ in this platform and hardware, then being told rather heavy handedly that I am to accept this new stuff obviously targeted for non-professional users. If there were options to enable or disable some of this stuff, it might sting a lot less then it does (or rather, did, since I'm back on 10.6).
-SC
But I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
