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  Liking Mountain Lion? Anonymous Group <anonymous42311324@gmail.com> - 2012-08-21 16:34 -0700
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-08-21 16:45 -0700
      Re: Liking Mountain Lion? John Young <jy@scallawags.net> - 2012-08-21 21:41 -0400
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3@bigpond.com> - 2012-08-22 09:53 +1000
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-08-21 20:10 -0400
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2012-08-22 00:13 +0000
      Re: Liking Mountain Lion? John Young <jy@scallawags.net> - 2012-08-21 21:31 -0400
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? John Young <jy@scallawags.net> - 2012-08-21 21:24 -0400
    Re: Liking Mountain Lion? Sandman <mr@sandman.net> - 2012-08-22 08:31 +0200

#29855 — Liking Mountain Lion?

Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
but how is everyone liking it?

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#29856

On 2012-08-21 23:34:20 +0000, Anonymous Group said:

> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

I like it.  I went through some pain to move to Lion, but moving from 
Lion to ML was entirely painless.

I like the Notification center.
I like the new option to have the thing ask before saving changes to 
documents (and thing it should be set by default).
I like the return of the 3-column view in Address Book (though I think 
CoBook is really slick and am using it more than Contacts)

I don't like the loss of auto-lock on documents.  See the recent 
discussions about auto-save.

It hasn't otherwise had much of an impact.  It's just.  Pretty much 
everything other than those couple of things I noted above seems to 
work the way it worked before.  There are some other more subtle 
changes (ie. scrollbars), and other things which I don't much use such 
as documents in the cloud. There are many things I haven't played with 
yet such as VIPs in mail, dictation, Messages, etc.  May explore more 
later, but none of that stuff gets in the way in the slightest.  Other 
than auto-lock, I can't think of anything lost due to the upgrade.

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#29873

In article <k116it$37v$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> wrote:

> On 2012-08-21 23:34:20 +0000, Anonymous Group said:
> 
> > Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> > but how is everyone liking it?
> 
> I like it.  I went through some pain to move to Lion, but moving from 
> Lion to ML was entirely painless.
> 
> I like the Notification center.

As you know I like ML but I do wish the notification center was a little 
closer to the Calendar App like in Lion.

> I like the new option to have the thing ask before saving changes to 
> documents (and thing it should be set by default).
> I like the return of the 3-column view in Address Book (though I think 
> CoBook is really slick and am using it more than Contacts)

CoBook I have never heard of but will check it out tonight. 
 
> I don't like the loss of auto-lock on documents.  See the recent 
> discussions about auto-save.

I can understand that but I love it. It is very easy to lock a document 
if I want to.
 
> It hasn't otherwise had much of an impact.  It's just.  Pretty much 
> everything other than those couple of things I noted above seems to 
> work the way it worked before.  There are some other more subtle 
> changes (ie. scrollbars), and other things which I don't much use such 
> as documents in the cloud. There are many things I haven't played with 
> yet such as VIPs in mail, dictation, Messages, etc.  May explore more 
> later, but none of that stuff gets in the way in the slightest.  Other 
> than auto-lock, I can't think of anything lost due to the upgrade.

I love have my Text Edit docs in the cloud. I can have them anywhere. I 
don't understand why they can't be available to me when I log into my 
iCloud web page like my Pages Docs are.
Come on Apple you can do better.

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#29857

On 2012-08-21 23:34:20 +0000, Anonymous Group said:

> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

At this stage … better and faster than Lion, about on par with Snow 
Leopard … still has the odd glitch (especially in Mail). Otherwise … no 
real surprises or incompatabilities.

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#29858

Anonymous Group:
> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

Everyone? Monks in remote areas of the Himalayas?
Pre-industrial-revolution Bushmen? Newborn infants? People struggling
at the end of their lives? Probably not liking ML.

The best you can hope for is to hear from the extremely tiny slice of
the Mac-using population that frequents CSMS. Not a typical slice of
the Mac community, either.

Me? ML works, so I like it just fine.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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#29859

Anonymous Group <anonymous42311324@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

Not a significant upgrade? For me it was. Lion for me was so 
disappointing and irritating that I skipped it entirely. The worst OS X 
version ever, IMO.

Mountain Lion reverts many of the irritations back to their proper 
pre-10.7 behaviour. And it adds a bunch of cool new stuff, like 
Notification Center. That alone is worth the upgrade.

There are still some bugs, like:
- not being able to entirely disable Resume, 

-Save As returns but still doesn't work properly (it saves the changes 
in a new document and closes the original document, but it also 
automatically saves the changes in the original document, despite me 
specifying in System Preferences to be asked before that happens,

- authentication dialogs appear sometimes for no apparent reason, and 
the disclosure triange on them that shows the requesting process and 
requested right has been removed, so I don't know what process wants 
admin rights and why. 

For me it's a big enough improvement over Snow Leopard that I made the 
move up, and it's an enormously huge improvement over Lion; the OS I 
really really tried to like, and just couldn't.

-- 
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

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#29872

In article <k11872$e6a$1@dont-email.me>, me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) 
wrote:

> Anonymous Group <anonymous42311324@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> > but how is everyone liking it?
> 
> Not a significant upgrade? For me it was. Lion for me was so 
> disappointing and irritating that I skipped it entirely. The worst OS X 
> version ever, IMO.
> 
> Mountain Lion reverts many of the irritations back to their proper 
> pre-10.7 behaviour. And it adds a bunch of cool new stuff, like 
> Notification Center. That alone is worth the upgrade.
> 
> There are still some bugs, like:
> - not being able to entirely disable Resume, 
 
Rumor has it wait for 10.8.1 puts even more shine on ML. Best Mac OS yet 
by far. If rumors can be believed.
 
> -Save As returns but still doesn't work properly (it saves the changes 
> in a new document and closes the original document, but it also 
> automatically saves the changes in the original document, despite me 
> specifying in System Preferences to be asked before that happens,

You will get over it. You may get to like it. Checking the what you call 
"specifying in System Preferences to be asked before that happens" does 
not disable versions.

> - authentication dialogs appear sometimes for no apparent reason, and 
> the disclosure triange on them that shows the requesting process and 
> requested right has been removed, so I don't know what process wants 
> admin rights and why.
 
You will figure it out I have.
 
> For me it's a big enough improvement over Snow Leopard that I made the 
> move up, and it's an enormously huge improvement over Lion; the OS I 
> really really tried to like, and just couldn't.

Yes like I said it really polishes Lion. Makes it more like it should 
have been all along.

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#29868

In article 
<1c944437-427d-4c14-9ab6-cfcedf0891bc@t9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
 Anonymous Group <anonymous42311324@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

Really a short question so a short answer. Ive been using ML since Build 
4 and I LOVE it. It puts the shine on Lion. It costs only 100 US 
currency to be a developer and you don't have to pay the 20 for ML. 
So for a net cost of 80 dollars for a year let me in early. Some on this 
forum don't seem to like anything Apple so why O why are they here? I 
love ML best Mac OS yet and I started with the SE or Plus.

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#29896

In article 
<1c944437-427d-4c14-9ab6-cfcedf0891bc@t9g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
 Anonymous Group <anonymous42311324@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is everyone liking mountain lion? I know its not a significant upgrade
> but how is everyone liking it?

Yep! :)


-- 
Sandman[.net]

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