Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Bread Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Losing my religion(?) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:11:55 -0700 Organization: lined up neatly Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <120820121955223103%star@sky.net> <5028a772$0$1490$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1344885116 11048 127.0.0.1 (13 Aug 2012 19:11:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:11:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Unison/2.1.9 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:29375 On 2012-08-13 18:42:59 +0000, Doug Anderson said: > JF Mezei writes: > >> While I personally disagree with many of the things Apple did to OS-X >> starting with LION (I need a computer, not an appliance) I am staying >> tuned to see what happens with that Windows-8 thing that is expected >> between now and Christmas. > > Which computer needs are no longer being met by Lion? Apparently, auto-save and Versions cause people's heads to explode. I've said many times that it's still got some ways to go to be great. It's still early, and I guess I'd call it a beta feature, rather than a finished product. But it's not like it causes me any difficulty, data loss, or other problems. I can still do exactly what I've always done. Apple could have done a better job of either allowing us to turn it off and get back our old "Save As" menu item - not making it optional was, in my opinion, a mistake. But folks acting like Versions and AutoSave are a dealbreaker on Lion are just blowing it way out of proportion. Oh, and the fact that ~/Library is now hidden by default. Oh, no! Otherwise, there's little about Lion that's intrusive or cause people to have to change any work habits (not counting the loss of Rosetta - which has been a major issue for some people, though the blame for that falls much harder on the software companies who never updated their software than on Apple, IMHO.) There's been a lot of hand-wringing about how horrible Lion is, but very very little substance. Witness the nearly endless discussion recently about the width of the scrollbars. *That* is cause for such complaint? Seriously? (Though, in fairness, I do agree that some of the defaults are not to my taste - for example, I like my scrollbars visible all the time. So I flipped the setting. Not a big deal.)