== Phil Dobbin wrote on Wed 8.Aug'12 at 3:39:29 +0100 == > James Linder wrote: > > > I'm using snow-leopard and everything works perfectly: > > gnome-terminal, wireshark, gimp, wget, latex ... After watching the > > woes unfold here why would I upgrade, what does lion offer that I > > don't have? (facebook connectivity etc is rather like a lead > > balloon) > > I personally am going to stick at Snow Leopard. Apple seem hell bent (& > financially, who can blame them) on turning their Mac line of computers > into glorified, very expensive iPads. > > Also, judging by the amount of posts I see here, on the Xcode list, etc, > every time there's an upgrade, people spend weeks trying to sort it out > & get back to semblance of normality so they can continue working. Also > I'm fortunate enough not to have to write Mac apps for a living, so SL > works fine for me so if it ain't broke, don't fix it. > > In all honesty, if it wasn't for Mac Ports, I'd probably just stick to > Linux & have done with it. > > Cheers, > > Phil...
I haven't had these problems with Lion; but then I bought my macmini with Lion preinstalled rather than upgrading from Snow Leopard. Having said that I do recall problems when I upgraded from Tiger -> Leopard -> Snow Leopard in one form or another so I'm in no hurry to "upgrade". I've got a nice setup on my Lion machine now and don't want broken program headaches as others' are experiencing. I haven't looked at the changes in ML in any detail but I can' imagine i'm missing out on anything too spectacular ATM. My Mac is really just for browsing and as a backup mailserver, most of my UNIX work is done on NetBSD anyway. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users