Upgrade to Lion

[stephen barncard]

Unfortunately no Photoshop, Pro Tools HD or Final Cut 7 for Linux.  I hope
Digidesign doesn't try to go with the flow.

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> So... previously I was free to do whatever I wanted and at some point I
> chose "Save As..." if I wanted to keep my current version next to my new
> version. Simple.
>
> Now I no longer have the freedom to do whatever I want, as Apple forces me
> to use their and exactly their workflow and nothing but their workflow. To
> replace the Save As... command with the Duplicate... command, Apple had to
> add a hugely complex system to my computer that uses a considerable amount
> of processing resources and hard disk space. MY processing resources and
> hard disk space. If I accidentally forget that I'm using a "current
> version", I have to hack my way through Apple's versioning system, find the
> right version and restore it, which takes a lot of time and effort compared
> to a simple "Save As...".
>
> And then all those other things such as a Dock you can't get rid of,
> useless Spaces, slow Exposé, processor time consuming Dashboard, slow
> Spotlight, expensive and slow Time Machine,... No thanks. My next laptop
> will run Linux and my next Mac will be a Mac Mini for testing only and I
> will postpone buying a new Mac for as long as possible.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
>
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco Ca. USA

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