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I'd like to understand what "This OS is a Lion" means. Is that a commonly used phrase?

• simonbarker87 4y ago
  My understanding is that OSX Lion was a release that changed a lot and had many bugs, looks like Ventura could be the same
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  • nnx 4y ago
    I'll wait for Mountain Ventura
    • Apocryphon 4y ago
      Buenaventura
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• thought_alarm 4y ago
  OS X 10.7 (Lion) was the first post-iPhone version of MacOS, released in late 2011. It was a bumpy release and it's not remembered fondly, but it introduced a number of fundamental features that modern iOS/Mac users depend on, like iCloud. The previous version from 2009, OS X 10.6, was essentially a maintenance/refinement release with few new features while the rest of Apple was heavily focused on launching the iPhone and the App Store. Many people consider 10.6 to be the strongest OS X release, but it feels positively retro by today's standards.
  • gymbeaux 4y ago
    10.6 Snow Leopard was the Windows XP of Apple. 10.8 Mountain Lion was also solid.
    • akerl_ 4y ago
      IIRC, this was relatively on purpose, with $modifier $name basically meaning "we made a backend change to the release but nothing else". Snow Leopard was a big shift towards 64-bit for core apps, and Grand Central Dispatch for multi-processing,