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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, as Yosemite has been the best OS X release since Snow Leopard for me. Runs brilliantly, added a lot of nice features (Contin

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, as Yosemite has been the best OS X release since Snow Leopard for me. Runs brilliantly, added a lot of nice features (Continuity and nicer widgets than Dashboard), looks better than Mavericks (and much better than Lion or ML). Then again, I use a MacBook Air, which doesn't usually seem to be the Mac of choice for people on here, so... shrug

MCRed 12y ago
You're not taking crazy pills. The difference is you're not a Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X, and now is complaining because it's not linux and switching back (which is now hip since google declared Apple evil for innovating) This is just another in the weekly 5 minutes of hate on Apple that Hipster News loves to perpetuate.
- ossreality 12y ago
  I've never laughed so hard and so loud at a comment before, and I've read some truly stupid shit on HN before.
- yourad_io 12y ago
  > Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X Put two minutes into understanding this[1] and then come back and tell me I'm a hipster douchebag because I needed my damned second screen. [1] OSX lion 10.7 full screen apps disables second monitor. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204004 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204004 (and hundreds, if not thousands, of duplicate threads for 10.7 and 10.8)
  - kybernetyk 12y ago
    The solution is simple: Don't use the full screen mode unless you have an 11" MacBook Air and need even the topmost 20px of screen estate.
    - yourad_io 12y ago
      I used full-screen in leu of a Maximize shortcut. As you well know, "Zoom" doesn't quite work as Maximize does in Windows. So, the solution is actually: Just move and resize your windows with the mouse, like normal people.
      - vosper 12y ago
        Or use one of the many apps that give you all sorts of window controls (including a nice maximize shortcut) like SizeUp (no connection, but happy user). EDIT: Grammar
- lookrealclose 12y ago
  Man you're projecting a lot. Also your baby dick is showing. Now get back to working on your shitty python library that no one will ever use.
madoublet 12y ago
I have an Air as well. I like the visual update, but I do feel like everything runs a bit slower than it did prior to the update.
visarga 12y ago
My problem with Yosemite is related to VNC (screen sharing): the desktop freezes for minutes after I end a session. Sometimes the mouse still moves, but nothing else. About 50% of these cases I need to reboot the laptop. I used to reboot my Mac once a month or less. Now it's daily. I want to downgrade OSX from 10.10 to 10.8, two versions back, because I read somewhere that it's the fastest of them. In the last 2-3 years, Apple only added self-serving cloud shit and tried to make everything more like iOS, but the fucking Finder columns still don't auto-resize to the length required to read the filenames without "...." in the middle.
enraged_camel 12y ago
Feature-wise I like it. Unfortunately, I ran into a show-stopper bug immediately after the upgrade: I turned on FileVault (without really meaning to) and it got stuck during the encryption stage. The progress bar doesn't move and the estimated time remaining keeps increasing until it says "months." So now every time I turn on my MBA 2011, FileVault kicks into high gear and drains the battery in under an hour, rendering the machine unusable unless it's plugged in. The only solution seems to be to reformat the machine. Yeah right, like I have the time for that.

MCRed 12y ago

You're not taking crazy pills. The difference is you're not a Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X, and now is complaining because it's not linux and switching back (which is now hip since google declared Apple evil for innovating) This is just another in the weekly 5 minutes of hate on Apple that Hipster News loves to perpetuate.

ossreality 12y ago
I've never laughed so hard and so loud at a comment before, and I've read some truly stupid shit on HN before.
yourad_io 12y ago
> Linux hacker that switched because it was hip and who never bothered to put 1/10th of the effort into understanding OS X Put two minutes into understanding this[1] and then come back and tell me I'm a hipster douchebag because I needed my damned second screen. [1] OSX lion 10.7 full screen apps disables second monitor. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204004 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3204004 (and hundreds, if not thousands, of duplicate threads for 10.7 and 10.8)
- kybernetyk 12y ago
  The solution is simple: Don't use the full screen mode unless you have an 11" MacBook Air and need even the topmost 20px of screen estate.
  - yourad_io 12y ago
    I used full-screen in leu of a Maximize shortcut. As you well know, "Zoom" doesn't quite work as Maximize does in Windows. So, the solution is actually: Just move and resize your windows with the mouse, like normal people.
    - vosper 12y ago
      Or use one of the many apps that give you all sorts of window controls (including a nice maximize shortcut) like SizeUp (no connection, but happy user). EDIT: Grammar
lookrealclose 12y ago
Man you're projecting a lot. Also your baby dick is showing. Now get back to working on your shitty python library that no one will ever use.

madoublet 12y ago

I have an Air as well. I like the visual update, but I do feel like everything runs a bit slower than it did prior to the update.

visarga 12y ago

My problem with Yosemite is related to VNC (screen sharing): the desktop freezes for minutes after I end a session. Sometimes the mouse still moves, but nothing else. About 50% of these cases I need to reboot the laptop. I used to reboot my Mac once a month or less. Now it's daily. I want to downgrade OSX from 10.10 to 10.8, two versions back, because I read somewhere that it's the fastest of them. In the last 2-3 years, Apple only added self-serving cloud shit and tried to make everything more like iOS, but the fucking Finder columns still don't auto-resize to the length required to read the filenames without "...." in the middle.

enraged_camel 12y ago

Feature-wise I like it. Unfortunately, I ran into a show-stopper bug immediately after the upgrade: I turned on FileVault (without really meaning to) and it got stuck during the encryption stage. The progress bar doesn't move and the estimated time remaining keeps increasing until it says "months." So now every time I turn on my MBA 2011, FileVault kicks into high gear and drains the battery in under an hour, rendering the machine unusable unless it's plugged in. The only solution seems to be to reformat the machine. Yeah right, like I have the time for that.