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a) What's the killer feature that I have to have, to make me tolerate the upgrade process (or wipe & reinstall, which I usually do)? ... and please don't tell m

by plg 13y ago

a) What's the killer feature that I have to have, to make me tolerate the upgrade process (or wipe & reinstall, which I usually do)? ... and please don't tell me to go look at Apple's website to see the list of features ... I'm looking for some comments based on first-hand experience here. b) does Mail.app still keep corrupting mailboxes? c) homebrew / LaTeX / emacs still works? oh hell maybe I'll just go install Debian oh wait ... I have a retina display ...

anonova 13y ago
If you use Gnome, they [recently added high DPI display support][1]. [1]: http://www.gnome.org/press/2013/09/gnome-foundation-announces-gnome-3-10/ http://www.gnome.org/press/2013/09/gnome-foundation-announce...
joeblau 13y ago
One of the the features which I thought was pretty cool is that the windows which are behind will that are performing rendering tasks will now use a lot less resources. I don't know if you regard that as "killer" but I think this will be great for battery life.
benrapscallion 13y ago
I believe keyboard shortcuts are synchronized between iOS and Mac. This alone is worth an upgrade for me, given I have almost a hundred shortcuts on my phone and have to retype them into DashExpander every time I make a new one.
ComputerGuru 13y ago
The upgrade process is 100% painless. You run the upgrade, it reboots your PC, and then it reboots it back into your desktop. No questions asked. OS X is absolutely not designed to be wiped and reinstalled, that's your problem if you do. While I have to format my Windows computers once a year for various reasons, I've been using OS X unformatted since the day I got my first MacBook in '06. Just used the migrate utility once when upgrading to my new rMBP. If you usually wipe and reinstall, that's on you. Homebrew's been working great for me throughout the entire Mavericks beta. The last time Mail.app corrupted my inbox was probably on Snow Leopard, everything's been good since.
- plg 13y ago
  "The last time Mail.app corrupted my inbox was probably on Snow Leopard, everything's been good since." That's great for you. It hasn't been my experience. Seems like every few days I find a message here and there in my archive that's been corrupted. I'm using Mountain Lion but my mail server is OS X Lion ... maybe that's the issue.

by plg 13y ago

anonova 13y ago

If you use Gnome, they [recently added high DPI display support][1]. [1]: http://www.gnome.org/press/2013/09/gnome-foundation-announces-gnome-3-10/ http://www.gnome.org/press/2013/09/gnome-foundation-announce...

joeblau 13y ago

One of the the features which I thought was pretty cool is that the windows which are behind will that are performing rendering tasks will now use a lot less resources. I don't know if you regard that as "killer" but I think this will be great for battery life.

benrapscallion 13y ago

I believe keyboard shortcuts are synchronized between iOS and Mac. This alone is worth an upgrade for me, given I have almost a hundred shortcuts on my phone and have to retype them into DashExpander every time I make a new one.

ComputerGuru 13y ago

The upgrade process is 100% painless. You run the upgrade, it reboots your PC, and then it reboots it back into your desktop. No questions asked. OS X is absolutely not designed to be wiped and reinstalled, that's your problem if you do. While I have to format my Windows computers once a year for various reasons, I've been using OS X unformatted since the day I got my first MacBook in '06. Just used the migrate utility once when upgrading to my new rMBP. If you usually wipe and reinstall, that's on you. Homebrew's been working great for me throughout the entire Mavericks beta. The last time Mail.app corrupted my inbox was probably on Snow Leopard, everything's been good since.

plg 13y ago
"The last time Mail.app corrupted my inbox was probably on Snow Leopard, everything's been good since." That's great for you. It hasn't been my experience. Seems like every few days I find a message here and there in my archive that's been corrupted. I'm using Mountain Lion but my mail server is OS X Lion ... maybe that's the issue.