I wonder what made you go back to Mountain Lion? I too found the upgrade
to Mavericks initially disturbing and originally considering trying to
revert but find most things work fine nowadays, even iBooks is more
usable now.
In my case the key on my 2011 iMac was to
1. Do a clean install.
2. Go back to Alex as my default voice.
3. Stop using Scansoft voices, particularly in conjunction with activities.
After that the lagging and busy issue pretty much disappeared and all
seemed to work fine with only minor annoyances which so far have work
around. The file attachment feature of Mail is now more time
consuming because you have to go to save as in the file menu. On my
machine you cannot escape out of the menu bar but have to go to menu
extras and then you can use escape. None of this is show stopping for
me. The major annoyance for me is that the tab feature appears to have
messed up the ability to open multiple windows so if I want to have
multiple windows in Finder open I have to use the open in new window
command from the context menu rather than just use command down arrow.
David Griffith
On 16/10/2014 00:00, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote:
Superlative little rant, that. :)
For myself, I'm back on Mountain Lion for my primary machine, a mid-11 iMac, to
get an email client that displays plain text messages, a working C compiler
compatible with much Open Source software, and no bloody iBooks. It's still
iOSified, but at least it functions. I am thinking about Windows--have been
for a while now, actually--as going neither further back nor further forward
with OS X would appear to be options. I would stay with Snow Leopard, but it's
not an option, and Mavericks+ are where the dumbed-down interfaces get a bit
too much for anything that isn't basic mucking about. Linux: nope, not on the
desktop. Windows 7, then?
You can hide U2 easily enough, in iTunes, on your purchases tab. And you can
hide them from your cloud view by just deleting them and taking the option to
hide.
As for iOS, I'd suggest you sign up for an Apple Developer account or team up
with someone who has so you can run the 8.1 beta. You'd be in a better
position to judge the performance of the bug fixes, and complain to Apple about
the remainder. Personally, although I think iOS is turning into Android, in an
unhealthy way, even as OS X turns into iOS, I can't complain about my iPhone
6+. It gives me pleasure to use it, even if I get annoyed by some of the bugs
or can't tell which app requires which permissions. I still have an iOS
7-equipped iPad and iPod, when I need smooth sailing above all things. The
initial iOS 8 release and the subsequent minor releases did not enjoy good
quality control, and not just for VoiceOver users either, but I do think we
have been punished rather badly compared to previous releases.
And yeah, we are the customers, dammit; don't excuse or idolise Apple. There is a reason
why the folder where my Apple list traffic goes into is called "BlindFaith". :)
So anyway, KBO.
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