Comment by frizlab

10 months ago

Snow leopard is fondly remembered but was buggy has hell when initially released. It got good, with time…

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fumar  10 months ago

I wish for snow leopard strategy to be applied to modern scaled operating systems. Let's all agree to spend a year fixing and optimizing rather than making existing functionality worse or launching half baked ideas.

walterbell  10 months ago

iOS becomes good a year after release, then Apple stops you from installing stable version, forcing install of unstable version with unwanted features.

  • layer8  10 months ago

    What I tend to do is to only install/buy late in the yearly cycle, then stay on that for a year.

    • walterbell  10 months ago

      Good approach. Sadly, it only lasts a few months before iOS with maximum hardening (lockdown mode + Apple Configurator supervised) falls to another zero day. Then the only option is DFU reinstall, which forces unstable iOS install.

jmb99  10 months ago

Perhaps I was just lucky, but 10.6.0 was equally stable as 10.5.8 for me. It did improve with time, and there’s little opposition to 10.6.8 being the best OS X release there was (except maybe 10.9.5), but for me at least it was a great OS even at launch.