Leopard for me so far
I recently read Dave Thomas’ recent post titled “The Canary Benefit“, and it reminded me that I had never made note of my switch back to OS X as my main operating system. My attempts to run my accounting and contact management on GNU/Linux over the past few years have been pretty dismal. The several options I tried to use for accounting led me to end up having to enter a year and a half of business transactions into QuickBooks from scratch, the tipping point being when I couldn’t even pull a meaningful profit and loss report for my accountant. Over time some Multisync failures had decimated my contact database as well, and that started to cost me.
Deciding to switch back to Mac was a no-brainer, but with the advent of Leopard I can say for the first time that I seem to be experiencing a bit of cruft like I have from other operating systems. Weird lockups, less-than-smooth transitions from sleep, goofy resume behavior when switching to an external monitor, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I love several features in Leopard enough to put up with the annoyances. They do, however, give me pause.
I had exactly the same problem. The beach ball was appearing all the time for seemingly no reason. I had upgraded from a Tiger install which had many apps installed. I decided to bite the bullet and rebuild Leopard from scratch with only the apps I actually use. It runs flawlessly now.
Comment by Paul — January 16, 2008 @ 7:19 am
My biggest headache on Leopard currently has to do with the GPRS modem script that enables my Nokia N93 on T-Mobile to be my Internet connection at client sites.
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