When Leopard is working ....

Question

I managed to do what so far has been a stable Upgrade to Leopard. I did a lot of reading beforehand, but how to do a successful install has been pretty well discussed on this forum.
For those of you who are having trouble, I understand. I've had trouble with other updates. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Once you've got Leopard up and stable, it can make you more productive.
Walt Mossberg, technogeek for the the Wall Street Journal calls Leopard evolutionary rather than revolutionary. In a sense he's right; but in my opinion, it's the evolutionary step from ape to human.
Leopard is filled with surprises. Let me give you some real life examples:
Time Machine really works. This morning, I screwed up an important file. I had the original back in 30 seconds.
I have a friend who was using two monitors so as to cleanly keep open all his applications. Using Spaces, he's down to one monitor.
Cover flow, when you need it, is fantastic. I had to find some photos in a fairly large file. I was clueless about the file names. I found them in under a minute simply by looking at the folder with CoverFlow.
I use an application called Together, formerly called KIT. It is one of those apps that allows you to organize bits and pieces of stuff you always wanted to organize. The Leopard upgrade puts a small Tab on side so that you can just drop stuff into Together without ever going to the app. You just drag it to the tab. What's important is that because the tab is visible in all Spaces, it's always there.
Spotlight integration is great and very fast.
There is lots of other stuff. The surprises just keep coming. I trust that if you are having trouble, when you get Leopard working, you will like is as much as I do.
All told, I simply find myself much more productive. Have others had the same experience I have?

Answer 1

Sorry, I'll have to go with Faema1969 here. If I had known of the grief ahead of me, I would have stuck with Tiger - random crashes, essential stuff missing, etc.
I have a good quality Agfa scanner with Scanwise software - simplest yet most useable scanner software I have found - has worked happily with all previous versions of OS 9 and X. Agfa got out of scanners a while back so no updates. Now on Leopard, it just crashes! I've had to install the software and run it on my G4 Tower backup server to scan. This mean I can't take the scanner and laptop on the road any more to scan precious documents people don't want to lose sight of (I do a lot of this stuff!).
I use Appleworks to make software tutorials for teachers - still the fastest software to do this on. When I put together a 10 page tutorial the other day, which with screen dumps was 1.1 meg, when I turned it into a pdf (no pdf compression built in on Leopard anymore - Apple doesn't know why it was removed!) it created a file that was 75 megs!!! (what gives???) I could blitz this sort of stuff out in Tiger no problems. I had to transfer it across and do it on a Tiger machine! Produced a file of 445kbs in reasonable quality!
At the moment, I feel like I do when I have to work with Vista - the operating system is getting in the way. I'm telling people not to upgrade at the moment - what you get is not worth what you lose in my humble opinion.