[ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

[stephen barncard]

Yes - most of my gripes about Lion are about UI "Improvements" in their own
apps. The actual performance and reliability seem to be better.

I was getting used to using Preview as my go-to Photoshop replacement, then
Lion took away the "Save As.."  menu item and function so now I have to do
this "make a copy" dance to make an alternate version of a document.
Several steps are now added and it's not clear what's happening.

It tries so hard to keep me from screwing up that it gets in the way.
 Changes a workflow that I've been using for years.... This is not
progress, it's just annoying.  Same with Textedit.

The Snow version of Textedit still works in Lion, but the SN Preview fails.
And don't get me started about the monochrome icons in the sidebar (WHY?)
when the custom icons were very useful in navigation. Now they are
converted to hard to read white ones. Maybe there will be a version of
Tinkertool that can restore this.

On 22 February 2012 22:01, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andre,
>
> I'm with you. I've been waiting for Lion to be become glitch free before
> taking the plunge, and it would seem just skipping it and going straight
> with MoLi is the way to go.
>
> As far as I can see there is actually nothing new in MoLl, just slight
> tweaks to things that already exist. I'm assuming that means that the
> glitches have been removed and now they are moving onto the polish.
>
> AirPlay: SnoLeo/Lion does mp3, MoLi now does mp4
> Notes: Added search and attachments to Stickies? Reminds very much of
> something created in HyperCard!
> Reminders: I get these thru iCal
> Notification Centre: The Numbers in the dock icons centralised.
> Share Sheets: A hyper link to email/Flickr/Vimeo? Some apps already had
> this, so now a few more get it.
>
> As far as I can tell the only new kid on the block is Gatekeeper.
>
> There was a time when I couldn't wait for the next OS, now… I can wait.
>
> Hmm, I guess they'll have a different pricing for Upgrade from Lion to MoLi
> compared to pre-Lion.
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey Folks,
> >
> > Is it safe to upgrade to Lion yet? I'd rather stay with snow leopard but
> > with mountain lion around the corner, snow leopard becomes outdated in
> the
> > sense of not being allowed into iCloud and things like that. If I don't
> > migrate to Lion or Mountain Lion, I will not be able to move to iCloud
> and
> > will loose my @mac.com email which is the one I use on PayPal...
> >
> > Also, I think that soon only Lion will be able to upload to Mac Apple
> > Store.
> >
> > Cheers
> > andre
> >
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