[DM-MUG] New Lion OS

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jorgensen Jenny <jajorgy at aol.com> wrote:

> Has anyone upgraded to this?  I was ready to do it, but just finished
> reading some comments and am not so sure now!  Lots of negatives, some way
> over my head, but speed and ease of use appeared to be a couple big ones.
>
> Any thoughts you care to share?
> Thank you.
> Jenny
>
>
Overall went well. Here are a few *sour points*:

I used bootcamp to partition my disk but instead of Windows I used Linux.
Lion refused to install. Apparently it wants your disk to have only one
partition. I'm not sure if this is true if I'd installed Windows since
Linux, when installed this way, will actually create two partitions rather
than the one that Windows would have made.

After installing Lion instead of the flashy video you get with leopard and
snow leopard you instead get a help video that shows you how the mouse
scrolling now works exactly opposite of what people expect. As someone who
studies and cares about usability this seems like a major failing. (using a
touch pad is not direct manipulation, but I digress) The mouse settings lets
you easily switch back to the old way.

Scrolling in general is not as smooth as it was in snow leopard. I have a 2
year old mac book pro and scrolling has occasional jerks and twitches and
there is display corruption in the bottom part of the scroll bar in some
apps.

When you leave your computer for a bit and the screen blanks, moving the
mouse won't wake it up, you have to press a key. I can't seem to find a way
to change this behavior but haven't looked real hard yet.

Battery life seems to have dropped significantly (from four hours to 2.5)
but there are so many variables that I'm not sure where to place the fault.
It could be a setting needing tweaked.

A friend of mine used Photoshop CS2 which is PPC only. He was surprised to
find it didn't work.

TimeMachine backups won't work well with non-Apple network storage. I've
built my own using Linux and netatalk. There is a patch to update things so
I got mine working pretty quickly. However if you have bought a device to do
this you will be stuck until the vendor provides an update.

The terminal app now does something odd when you type a long command.
Instead of wrapping, the left part scrolls off the side so you can't see the
whole line at once. I'm sure I'll find a way to disable this.

I'm not happy with mail. I can't make sense of it at all. I have reverted to
using my phone or browser for e-mail. I have three accounts and I know I've
got unread e-mail in one but can't find it. I'm very frustrated by the
change here.

Some *positive points*:

Launchpad is great. Way better than the dashboard. I've always had four
virtual desktops so the change that fixes it to four doesn't affect me. If
you're used to more you may be disappointed.

XCode 4.1 is now free in the app store. (3.x was free but you needed a
developer account, 4.0 was $5)

A modern version of Python (2.7!) - I'm a python developer so this is good
in my opinion. :-) - keep in mind that if you are a python dev like me
you'll have to re-install many of your modules. I had to run sudo
easy_install pip and then pip worked. Prior to that pip would freak out in
really weird ways.

The terminal shows a spinning throbber on tabs when you're running a
command. This way if you're processing something you can switch to a
different tab and still see when you're earlier task finishes.

The slight UI improvements are good. The low-profile scroll bars look nice.
Progress bars and text fields now have a slight stroke to them which gives a
little depth.

Except for Python apps that needed modules that weren't active in the new
version all of my apps worked fine.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
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