If your Mac journey starts with Lion, then I'd agree that anything subsequent is a vast improvement. Of the three released since Lion, I think ML has proven to be the least annoying and most stable, but Mavericks will probably prove less frustrating at the current rate of VoiceOver instability and Safari crashes.
I don't agree that OS X is substantially better since SL, in fact, I'd argue that many things now taken for granted started their life in SL. This includes the many VoiceOver changes since Leopard, which IMO were among the biggest. FWIW, my first Mac came with Leopard, although I wasn't much impressed by Tiger before it, and didn't even know Apple had a Spoken Interface preview before then. I had some dealings with classic Mac OS, but only through a musical friend downgrading for the use of Outspoken from Panther. The Windows comparison is highly strained, because indeed, Windows 7--still used by many people--was released in the same year as SL. I realise the power of nostalgia, but Apple's release cycle is much shorter than Microsoft's, and there are still people using SL because they have to, EG those with Core Solo Macs. So, yes, SL is to Apple what XP is to Windows, but only because it's discontinued and many people have, use, need and enjoy it. I don't think I could go back to SL. I might install it, and use it, between now and Yosemite, as a kind of personal protest. Sadly, some of the tools I use (in particular OS X server's caching server and Arq) require later versions of OS X. Still, I do maintain that SL was, subjectively at any rate, the best version of OS X I've used--better than Leopard 10.5.8, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks. The latter three, in my opinion, are destroying the platform, rendering it less and less "Mac-like" and more and more "iPad-like", which is not a trend I appreciate at all. As soon as "Windows 9" (or whatever they call it) comes out and proves to be everything that's likeable about Windows 7, but with all of the under-the-hood goodness in Windows 8, I'll take a serious look. Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
