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I concur. I loved 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), but I was burned so badly when I upgraded (too quickly) to 10.7 (Lion), that I've been paranoid ever since. That oper

I concur. I loved 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), but I was burned so badly when I upgraded (too quickly) to 10.7 (Lion), that I've been paranoid ever since. That operating system was, freeze and kernel panic city for me. I'm pretty happy with 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion), and Its only about now that I'm considering upgrading to (10.9) Mavericks. (Just one operating system before the current (10.10) Yosemite) Of course, Apple doesn't make it easy to upgrade to their stable and regressed operating system - I'm going to have go through all sorts of hoops to upgrade to anything other than the (still not fully trusted by me) Yosemite.

coldpie 12y ago
Oh My God what a mess. Everyone, please just use the freaking version numbers.
wyclif 12y ago
I still use Snow Leopard. It's super stable and functions just fine as a developer OS.
- jasode 12y ago
  The old OS X version can be fine if you're primarily doing Python programming. However, if one is using Xcode to write iOS 8 apps for the millions of new phones people bought a few months ago, you are pretty much forced onto the Apple upgrade treadmill. For example, Xcode 6.3 requires 10.10[1]. Apple decided that OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) released less than 18 months ago is not recent enough. Staying with OS X 10.6 means the latest Xcode you can install is v4 which means iOS 5 is the last version you can write apps for. That would be a severe handicap since iOS 5 has less than 3% marketshare[2]. I'm not sure if Apple servers would even allow developers to submit an iOS 5 app these days[3]. OS X 10.6 definitely was very stable but staying on it has severe economic penalties for many programmers. [1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 [2]http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ [3]http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-submissions-to-be-optimized-for-ios-7-by-feb-1.html http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-...

coldpie 12y ago

Oh My God what a mess. Everyone, please just use the freaking version numbers.

wyclif 12y ago

I still use Snow Leopard. It's super stable and functions just fine as a developer OS.

jasode 12y ago
The old OS X version can be fine if you're primarily doing Python programming. However, if one is using Xcode to write iOS 8 apps for the millions of new phones people bought a few months ago, you are pretty much forced onto the Apple upgrade treadmill. For example, Xcode 6.3 requires 10.10[1]. Apple decided that OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) released less than 18 months ago is not recent enough. Staying with OS X 10.6 means the latest Xcode you can install is v4 which means iOS 5 is the last version you can write apps for. That would be a severe handicap since iOS 5 has less than 3% marketshare[2]. I'm not sure if Apple servers would even allow developers to submit an iOS 5 app these days[3]. OS X 10.6 definitely was very stable but staying on it has severe economic penalties for many programmers. [1]https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 [2]http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/ [3]http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-submissions-to-be-optimized-for-ios-7-by-feb-1.html http://www.macworld.com/article/2080865/apple-requiring-app-...