Os X Lion
23/08/11 01:59 Filed in: Sysadmin
I have been using os X
Lion since one of the dev previews. I have been using
os X since Jaguar and I have to say it has been one
of the least painful upgrades ever.
In general the system works a bit faster than under snow leopard (I do have a new macbook pro and macbook air with i7), all my hardware worked without problems (printers, scanner, audio interfaces, midi controllers), most apps worked fine, some of the GUI changes are nice and the apparent gui changes are not so huge for me.
But first the bad:
- The themes of addresbook and ical are fugly. Incredibly fugly. Also not entirely sure about the new layout of address book, but no buggy for me
- Launchpad is not really my thing. I use mostly alfred to start apps
- Although safari is a but faster, it still hemmorages memory. This may also be related to some extensions I use.
- Apps that broke: silver fast SE (I now use vuescan), gpgmail (there is an alpha which works so so), ableton live (there is a beta)
- AFP changes which at first broke authentication to my NAS. With a beta firmware my NAS now works fine.
- Full screen mode sucks in dual head mode
- Had one kernel panic on my air
- Some gestures conflict with gestures of applications
- The remembering of the state of an app, with it’s open windows and documents is hit and miss, depending on the app
- Some finder changes are not so great or need getting used to: invisible Library (easily fixed), sidebar, all my documents
The good:
- My old macbook pro was getting very slow on snow leopard, but on lion it is quite snappy again
- Whole disc encryption with file vault on the air works very well, no visible performance penalty
- Airdrop works very well, but I would like it if it also worked with wired ethernet
- Launchpad is okayish, but I use mostly alfred for application start or the dock
- I like Mission control, for me it works better than spaces and expose
- The fullscreen mode works very nicely on my small 11” macbook air
- The new scrolling direction actually makes a lot of sense
- Using gestures works very well on my touchpad or magic pad
- Pf is now apparently the standard os X firewall (Not sure since when), I like it a lot better than the old ipf.
- I like the way of resizing windows and the handling of scrollbars, although sometimes the bottom part of the window is not well visible
- Mail.app is snappier, I like the three pane layout, threading and full screen mode
- WebGL in safari
What I had to do:
- Reinstall the ABN amro identifier driver
- Install the beta of gpgmail, ableton live
- Switch to vuescan from silver fast. At the moment I like it better
- Installed lion tweaks. Witht hat I made Library folder visible, and removed the fugly themes of address book and ical
- Some app updates, most of which came very quickly after the release of Lion
in the end, there are not that many big changes in user interface for me, at least no negative ones, and some positive ones. I still work like I used to, with terminal tabs, with alfred, but I use full screen apps on my MBA. I work slightly different on my air than on my MBP with extra screen.
In general the system works a bit faster than under snow leopard (I do have a new macbook pro and macbook air with i7), all my hardware worked without problems (printers, scanner, audio interfaces, midi controllers), most apps worked fine, some of the GUI changes are nice and the apparent gui changes are not so huge for me.
But first the bad:
- The themes of addresbook and ical are fugly. Incredibly fugly. Also not entirely sure about the new layout of address book, but no buggy for me
- Launchpad is not really my thing. I use mostly alfred to start apps
- Although safari is a but faster, it still hemmorages memory. This may also be related to some extensions I use.
- Apps that broke: silver fast SE (I now use vuescan), gpgmail (there is an alpha which works so so), ableton live (there is a beta)
- AFP changes which at first broke authentication to my NAS. With a beta firmware my NAS now works fine.
- Full screen mode sucks in dual head mode
- Had one kernel panic on my air
- Some gestures conflict with gestures of applications
- The remembering of the state of an app, with it’s open windows and documents is hit and miss, depending on the app
- Some finder changes are not so great or need getting used to: invisible Library (easily fixed), sidebar, all my documents
The good:
- My old macbook pro was getting very slow on snow leopard, but on lion it is quite snappy again
- Whole disc encryption with file vault on the air works very well, no visible performance penalty
- Airdrop works very well, but I would like it if it also worked with wired ethernet
- Launchpad is okayish, but I use mostly alfred for application start or the dock
- I like Mission control, for me it works better than spaces and expose
- The fullscreen mode works very nicely on my small 11” macbook air
- The new scrolling direction actually makes a lot of sense
- Using gestures works very well on my touchpad or magic pad
- Pf is now apparently the standard os X firewall (Not sure since when), I like it a lot better than the old ipf.
- I like the way of resizing windows and the handling of scrollbars, although sometimes the bottom part of the window is not well visible
- Mail.app is snappier, I like the three pane layout, threading and full screen mode
- WebGL in safari
What I had to do:
- Reinstall the ABN amro identifier driver
- Install the beta of gpgmail, ableton live
- Switch to vuescan from silver fast. At the moment I like it better
- Installed lion tweaks. Witht hat I made Library folder visible, and removed the fugly themes of address book and ical
- Some app updates, most of which came very quickly after the release of Lion
in the end, there are not that many big changes in user interface for me, at least no negative ones, and some positive ones. I still work like I used to, with terminal tabs, with alfred, but I use full screen apps on my MBA. I work slightly different on my air than on my MBP with extra screen.
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