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Sorry, a bit of hyperbole on my part. I was alluding to the "Vista Capable" days, when machines barely able to run XP were touted by their manufacturers as "Vis

Sorry, a bit of hyperbole on my part. I was alluding to the "Vista Capable" days, when machines barely able to run XP were touted by their manufacturers as "Vista Capable", even though they knew very well that the new OS had much higher requirements than XP. Core Solo CPUs were particularly bad at running any Windows OS, and were featured in many of those machines. My point being, even a kludgy setup like that was more tolerable than OS X 10.7 and up (again, hyperbole, but close enough to the truth in my case).

yuhong 12y ago
And it is that point that I am talking about, and I was wondering what problems made it that unusable. I was not saying that there is no problems.
- morganvachon 12y ago
  I thought it was obvious from my clarification: Lion was the Vista of the Mac world. Major instability, much slower than SL, broken hardware drivers in my case, forced obsolescence (why drop support for perfectly capable Core Duo and even some Core 2 Duo machines?), massive changes to file saving...it would be faster to list what wasn't screwed up.
  - yuhong 12y ago
    Yea I know, but this says nothing about Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
    - morganvachon 12y ago
      Jesus Christ. Okay, in short, ML fixed some but not all of Lion's issues, and Mavericks fixed a few more but introduced a lot of annoying "features" that still broke my workflow. Yosemite was another huge regression, almost as bad as Lion. If you want more specific than that, you'll have to find someone who has spent more time than I have on those OS releases. I've tried each one and have yet to see anything better than Snow Leopard; if you don't like that answer, too bad. I'm done.
      - yuhong 12y ago
        This does not make them that unusable. I was not implying that there is no problems.
      - calvin_ 12y ago
        Welcome to yuhong, he's famous for this on basically every comments page I've seen him on
        morganvachon 12y ago
        You know, I started getting the feeling I was being trolled early on, but I didn't dare try calling it out here. Trolls seem to be dealt with by the staff but regular users who call them out get spanked too.

yuhong 12y ago

And it is that point that I am talking about, and I was wondering what problems made it that unusable. I was not saying that there is no problems.

morganvachon 12y ago
I thought it was obvious from my clarification: Lion was the Vista of the Mac world. Major instability, much slower than SL, broken hardware drivers in my case, forced obsolescence (why drop support for perfectly capable Core Duo and even some Core 2 Duo machines?), massive changes to file saving...it would be faster to list what wasn't screwed up.
- yuhong 12y ago
  Yea I know, but this says nothing about Mountain Lion or Mavericks.
  - morganvachon 12y ago
    Jesus Christ. Okay, in short, ML fixed some but not all of Lion's issues, and Mavericks fixed a few more but introduced a lot of annoying "features" that still broke my workflow. Yosemite was another huge regression, almost as bad as Lion. If you want more specific than that, you'll have to find someone who has spent more time than I have on those OS releases. I've tried each one and have yet to see anything better than Snow Leopard; if you don't like that answer, too bad. I'm done.
    - yuhong 12y ago
      This does not make them that unusable. I was not implying that there is no problems.
    - calvin_ 12y ago
      Welcome to yuhong, he's famous for this on basically every comments page I've seen him on
      - morganvachon 12y ago
        You know, I started getting the feeling I was being trolled early on, but I didn't dare try calling it out here. Trolls seem to be dealt with by the staff but regular users who call them out get spanked too.