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I love me some Apple, but drama does occur. Off the top of my head: - silent DVD-ROM read errors causing perma-botched upgrades, even though everything should

by jpxxx 14y ago

I love me some Apple, but drama does occur. Off the top of my head: - silent DVD-ROM read errors causing perma-botched upgrades, even though everything should be CRCed and nothing throws any errors at any point along the way - pathologically long install stall-outs (40 minutes+) - pathologically slow performance at first restart, usually on older RAM-constrained machines trying to re-thumbnail everything - Significant keychain issues requiring creation of an entirely new keychain - Spotlight issues requiring a first or second re-index - Mail.app upgrades are quite problematic, especially when moving to V2 layout or accessing previously configured accounts - Now-missing JVMs causing significant problems during first boot - Lion download progress bars blowing some internal math and going for that 235905329052 gigabyte The biggest hassle I think is exploding third-party software at first logon. Things like garbage rinter+scanner managers freaking out because drivers got moved around underneath them cause a flurry of popups that frustrate techs and freak out novices.

batista 14y ago
Of those, I've seen spotlight needing re-indexing after an upgrade. But it's something so minor and easily fixed that I don't even consider it a fault of the OS (actually, it could have as well been DESIGNED to do that, e.g to update the indexes to some new on-disk format). Silent DVD errors, install stalls, keychain and Mail accounts missing sound like genuine bugs. As for the rest, >- pathologically slow performance at first restart, usually on older RAM-constrained machines trying to re-thumbnail everything This doesn't sound like an OS bug, more like something to be expected. >- Now-missing JVMs causing significant problems during first boot Sure, but what uses Java at boot? The above and third party printer/scanner managers freaking out, sound like totally orthogonal issues to OS bugginess. If anything, I would _expect_ to have to install new third party drivers with an major OS update.

by jpxxx 14y ago

batista 14y ago

Of those, I've seen spotlight needing re-indexing after an upgrade. But it's something so minor and easily fixed that I don't even consider it a fault of the OS (actually, it could have as well been DESIGNED to do that, e.g to update the indexes to some new on-disk format). Silent DVD errors, install stalls, keychain and Mail accounts missing sound like genuine bugs. As for the rest, >- pathologically slow performance at first restart, usually on older RAM-constrained machines trying to re-thumbnail everything This doesn't sound like an OS bug, more like something to be expected. >- Now-missing JVMs causing significant problems during first boot Sure, but what uses Java at boot? The above and third party printer/scanner managers freaking out, sound like totally orthogonal issues to OS bugginess. If anything, I would _expect_ to have to install new third party drivers with an major OS update.