That minimizes the window.
Not sure what version you're using or if you have changed defaults, but in Yosemite it maximises without going full screen by default.
That minimizes the window.
i think the earlier versions of Lion were tuned for SSD a little too much and the hard drive performance on earlier versions of 10.7 just sucked really hard compared to Snow Leopard.
This is somewhat surprising since-in 2011-the majority of Apple's computer line still had spinning HDDs. The only that had gone full scale SSD at that point was the Air.
Of course, Apple would put an SSD in anything else they made, but you paid a pretty healthy mark-up for it. At the time, the "market price" for SSDs was hovering around $1/gb, and Apple charged you about $2/gb for BTO SSDs.
At the same time, on a Macbook Pro or Mac Pro of the era, it was a simple operation to install your own SSD.
I think by the time I bought my late '2011(April of '12), Lion was up to about 10.7.3 and it ran fine.
This is somewhat surprising since-in 2011-the majority of Apple's computer line still had spinning HDDs. The only that had gone full scale SSD at that point was the Air.
I doubt 95% of people can actually vote - not that may people have had experience of the OS going back that far..
I just signed up to vote Yosemite. Worst buggiest OS ever. Snow Leo was like the best OS I've ever used.
The only even-numbered releases of OS X that weren't good would be 10.0 and 10.2 (Jaguer), but that's because it was the very beginning of OS X.
Yes, Yosemite was my favorite. It was absolutely rock solid, worked very well, and didn't have many odd glitches at all. This being on a cMBP from 2011. El Cap hasn't really impressed me; in fact, it reintroduced a few odd bugs from Mavericks (Time Machine being one example), and feels slower/more sluggish than Yosemite did.
Bummer, I can't change my vote. Voted Leopard, should have voted Tiger, checked the timeline.
I started working at this really cool company end of 2006, and I got an iMac with Tiger on it. The thing crashed, it was dreadfully slow at times, beachball of doom was my constant companion. And that was the fastest iMac available at the time. After I completed my trial period, among other benefits I got €1,250 to buy a computer. I built an extremely fast Windows machine.
Over three years later I was running Snow Leopard and oh my God I loved this one so much. When my company again gave me €1,250, I added some money of my own and got an iMac. After the "pleasure" of running Windows for three years I was incredibly happy with the iMac. It was GORGEOUS, fast, everything Just Worked (TM).
As time passed, I updated my Mac OS and got to Yosemite, which I actually didn't mind. (Not on the 2006 machine anymore ) I had some of the infamous wifi problems, but 10.10.5 resolved them. Then I moved to El Capitan. I am not happy. I still can't run Cubase, as Steinberg can't figure out how to make it work. I can't get folders on top, because for some reason XtraFinder can't make it work. (I have SIP disabled.) I needed to customise the dock (thanks @Darkcrow25!) – same as Yosemite obviously – for it to look... less crap, let's say. Spotlight seems to constantly be busy with indexing, what took 0.1 second on Yosemite goes for 15 seconds now, and I use that thing to launch applications. The less said about Disk Utility the better, fortunately I managed to get the Yosemite version to work. Let's say that Apple Music is not a part of El Capitan, but I wasn't a big fan of that either, and I detest Photos – I hope iPhoto continues working for a while and Apple don't "forget to update certificates" for it.
In 2009, I bought an iMac, because I suffered from Windows User Syndrome and I wanted a machine that would be a pleasure to use. I am worried that in a year or two I will be installing Windows, because I really don't like the direction Mac OS X is going. I wouldn't say El Capitan is my least favourite, because it mostly works, but it's in top three, and possibly right after Tiger. I'm waiting for some ca$h to flow my way and I intend to spend it on a Macbook Air, but I think I will try to put Yosemite on it.