Hi, I'd like to uninstall this awful OS and go back to Tiger.

Question

Right. I can't stand snow leopard. It's an awful OS. It dwindles in comparison. And I want it GONE! It's completely screwed up very thing from Photoshop, to screen savers.
And the worst thing? Quick Time.
xI paid out for Quick Time pro back when I first got my mac book pro. And it was great. I edits in a blink of an eye when I needed some easy and basic, now I've got to piddle around with iMovie. I don't have time to do that, time is not a luxury I have at work.
So somebody please tell me how to get rid of this crap, and go back to the great Tiger OS. Cheers

Answer 1

Kurt Lang wrote:
Almost without fail, those who seem to have the most trouble with a new OS are those who install over their existing OS instead of erasing the drive and starting from scratch.
I disagree with this very broad statement, at least as it applies to Snow Leopard. The Snow Leopard installer has very little in common with the installers for previous OS versions. For one thing, it never just upgrades selected OS files so the "over their existing OS" phrase doesn't apply in any relevant way. For another, the Snow Leopard installer is designed to install by default only what is needed, based on what is on the target volume, instead of all the extra junk the old installers always did. It even uses the existing OS's network settings to 'phone home' to update its list of incompatible software before installing anything, runs the equivalent of Disk Utility's verify disk check before writing anything to the drive, & more.
Everybody out there has to rewrite their software to either behave properly as 32-bit software it already was, or rewrite it to 64-bit.
Nonsense. I've got lots of old software that hasn't seen any development in years, & it runs perfectly well with Snow Leopard. What doesn't is mostly software that bypasses Apple's recommended API's in favor of some proprietary approach, system level stuff like peripheral drivers that typically have to be rewritten for every major OS upgrade (including for Windows), & just plain badly written software.
I just installed the CS5 Design Premium Suite and realized I can't use any of the the third party plugins I heavily rely on unless I force Photoshop to run in 32-bit mode.
Question: Is Photoshop actually running any slower in 32 bit mode on Snow Leopard than it did on Leopard?
It's been said often in many forums, but here it is again. If you rely on your computer for a living, why on Earth are you jumping right into a new OS without testing it first?
This much I agree with 100%, & even extend it to casual users who just want the smoothest transition possible. That said, it was a much smoother transition for me going from 10.5 to 10.6 than from 10.4 to 10.5 & my Intel Macs are quite noticeably faster running Snow Leopard than Leopard.