Comment by frizlab
10 months ago
Snow leopard is fondly remembered but was buggy has hell when initially released. It got good, with time…
10 months ago
Snow leopard is fondly remembered but was buggy has hell when initially released. It got good, with time…
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.
iOS becomes good a year after release, then Apple stops you from installing stable version, forcing install of unstable version with unwanted features.
What I tend to do is to only install/buy late in the yearly cycle, then stay on that for a year.
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.
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.