Is mac os lion good?

is mac os lion good?

linesh wrote:
is mac os lion good?
Not in my experience of trying to work with it. Lots of small things that, cumulatively, slow down my workflow, such as:
Not being able to save an email as text to anywhere except the top level of my drive;
Making an alias and then dragging the alias to where I want to put it, only to find that a new alias is created and the one I just make stays where it is;
Finder not remembering my preferences for how icons are displayed on the Desktop;
Having to jump through additional hoops to access my own Library files;
Autosave causing the system to slow down;
No more Exposé;
All added together, and taken along with a number of much more serious freezes and crashes requiring a hard restart, these mean that for me, Lion is no good. I continue to fool around with it occasionally on another computer but for serious, business-related purposes I don't trust it. When it let me down by freezing up right in the middle of a business meeting, I decided to move back to Snow Leopard.
Others will tell you they think Lion is wonderful. I can't stop them.
I've been a Mac user for a long, long time. I know how things work and how to repair problems but Lion has beaten me. Maybe if I had nothing else to do and didn't need to earn a living, I'd have time to go under the hood and try fixing it more, but somehow there's always something more important I need to do.
If I were you I would wait for a few more system updates and try again later, maybe some time around Easter 2012.
"Regular backup is one of the Buddha's Threefold Paths to Englightenment"

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