I’ve been using Leopard since it came out now.
I have posted some of the initial application incompatibility which to be truthful is something one can expect with anything new. In my experience, the application incompatibilities are pretty minor though my experience seems counter to some of the louder “complainers” out there. Upgrading the day a product comes out and complaining loudly seems oddly at juxtapositions to one another. I’m certainly frustrated with the couple of apps that don’t work but I’ve found temporary work arounds or am just living without for a bit.
That being said, there are other issues that do seem worth stating. I have noticed lots of areas that are steps backwards from Tiger (OS X 10.4). Here are just a couple of examples:
- When printing, the printer application would automatically close under tiger. Under Leopard, it hangs around leaving things untidy. Odd behavior.
- Networking did not initially work. It required some manual setup. Under tiger, it just worked. Under leopard it did not. In fact, it required a hack work around to get it to work at all (due to some sort of bug that has yet to be fixed).
- Network changes on a laptop under tiger would automatically change local (and based on local, that meant it would change the active hardware – i.e. Home would have ethernet active and Away would have wireless active). Leopard does not due this cool thing and requires you to do it manually. Inconvenient
Now I am just a switcher of a few years but Leopard is doing things more and more like Windows (while Windows is trying to do things more and more like Tiger). Catch that irony!
There are lots of good things in Leopard (I’m really liking Spaces). It really seems like the vetting process didn’t happen or maybe we are the vetting process which again sounds like how MS does it and again, more like Windows.