Fluff from the naval of my mind

One day in to using OS X Lion full time on my main machine, and I have to say that I am generally happy. Not blown away, but happy. Here are a few observations.

There’s nothing I dislike about Lion (so far). It is basically Snow Leopard plus so far as my experiences so far. I can’t say I see myself using the Launchpad, but the Mission Control is very attractive and I can see myself using it occasionally.

I use a Magic Trackpad and the additional gestures are great. I’m already a big fan of using gestures to turn pages, scroll and zoom. The addition of swipe between desktops or full screen apps, swipe to go to desktop, swipe to see related windows and swipe to open Mission Control, is all to the good. Gestures just make everything quicker and easier for me.

With this release scrolling now works as if you are pushing the scroll content, rather than pulling the scroll bar. Bottom line, the scroll gesture works upside down, swipe up to push the page up (scroll toward the bottom) and vice versa. This behaviour can be inverted (restoring the old Snow Leopard behaviour) but I quite like the new way, it is just a case of retraining my muscle memory (give it a day or two).

I had a couple of teething problems tying up to iCloud, but these were swiftly resolved; calendar, reminders, bookmarks, and contacts all nicely synching between main machine, iPad and iPhone. So another win for Lion.

Altogether, Lion has enhanced my desktop experience.