Out of my Element Review: This Lion Should have Stayed in its cage

Recently, I upgraded to Lion. Want to know what I discovered right off the bat? I no longer could use Microsoft office programs.

So a stage manager can't use word, or excel....You'd figure that removing support for the world's most popular office software would be MENTIONED!! ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS, DUDE?????

Now I've had to drop an additional $40 so I can just do my goddamn job. I have to be able to read .doc and .xls files. Now I have to learn another interface....I'd love to hear an explanation. Oh but that's ok....I'll be able to edit scripts in Final Draft.

Wait what? What do you mean that's not supported anymore either??? You're telling me if I want that program to work, I need to spend $200??!! Get bent, Apple!

But not all hope is lost. Megawatch, the world's most convenient stage management clock program I've ever encountered must still be ok. It's just a stop watch with a break clock countdown....

.....Really? Not that either, huh?

Mac OSX Lion sucks ass, I don't care what improvements they've made. They removed compatibility. Who does that???? Evidently Apple does.

Now after 5 years of using laptops and using finger scrolling, apple decided they wanted to make it more like an iphone/ipad. So now when I scroll down, the page goes up. When I scroll up, the page goes down. It's like old school nintendo games with airplanes, with the reverse controls. But I only picked those games up once or twice. I didn't have it engrained in my muscle memory with five years worth of use. It's pointless. I know it "makes sense" because it mimics all of the other touch screen technology. Mouse pads are not touch screens. You fail.

They redesigned spaces, too. Pointless. Now for some reason all 6 of my traditional spaces have arbitrary wallpapers. But it's not like each one has it's own wallpaper. Screen 1 has one thing, screen 2 has another thing, but screens 3, 4, 5 are all the same and 6 is different from all those. Used to be that spaces would show you all your spaces at once. It still does, but it's also combined with expose. But like....a cracked out expose that doesn't actually....show you all your windows. Things are placed on top of each other and you can't get to all the screens. Oh just in case you were wondering, the alignment of the spaces is arbitrary as well. They don't stay in order. So Screen 2 isn't always screen 2. Sometimes, Screen 3 is screen 2. Even 1st graders know that doesn't make any frickin' sense. This whole mess of crap has been redubbed Mission Control.

The dashboard is changed as well, also not for the better. The default setting is to use the dashboard as a space, instead of an overlay on the space you're working in. So if you need to use the calculator, and need to see the numbers, by default, you can't. Thankfully, they left AN OPTION to turn that preference off.

I do believe this is quite possibly the worst $70 I've spent. I'm not saying the $30 retail price because, as I said before, I spent $40 on more bullshit to make my computer not a worthless hunk of plastic and silicon. You know what? If you don't have to....skip Lion. Fuck this OS. And Fuck apple for foisting this on us without the proper information available. Also, fuck them for making me say fuck about apple products. I don't want to be angry at them, but they are making it really hard for me right now.