Panther: So Broken
March 25th, 2004In furthering the whining about the turn for the worse that Mac OS X appears to have taken with Panther:
Read this.
I’m feeling like I did back in 2001; Apple must not force me to do gymnastics to get my job done. If it does, I’ll defect. Sure, Windows XP Pro isn’t the most beautiful thing to look at but by God it works. And working is what it’s supposed to be about.
To those boycotting the upgrade to Adobe’s CS line: CS fixes many, many issues. The biggest for me: one can now save a native Illustrator file onto a server. InDesign still has linking issues when the files linked to are stored on a server. I can’t decide if that’s the OS or the app. EIther way, Adobe and Apple need to sit down and work it out, because I’m tired of relinking all my damn files EVERY TIME I OPEN A DOCUMENT.
On the family front, my baby is cuter than ever and I miss being home to help Heather. It hurts to know that she’s getting no sleep while I can sleep harder than I’ve ever slept before. There must be some physiological thing happening there as other new fathers I’ve spoken to talk about their ability to sleep through anything. o
March 25th, 2004 at 11:57 am
I so hear you on Panther. Jaguar was beautiful, stable, relatively bug-free. It lulled me into a false sense of security, so when Panther came out I upgraded right away. What happened? Is Apple becoming Microsoft? Blah.
March 25th, 2004 at 12:39 pm
I’ve had no problems with Panther (put the golden master on my Powerbook as soon as I took it out of the box). But, I don’t use Illustrator :).
March 25th, 2004 at 2:11 pm
I guess I’m living right, because I’m totally happy with Panther and CS.
Except stinkin’ GoLive, and the loss of Dynamic Content. Bite me.
March 25th, 2004 at 10:29 pm
Totally happy with Panther but I do pretty basic stuff with it.
March 25th, 2004 at 11:39 pm
Dude, you need more sleep. Maybe you need to get a rubber chicken to ward off the evil spirits (I keep plenty on any for the data center at work) but my G4 has been rock solid since I installed Panther. Granted I don’t use Adobe anything (except Acrobat Reader) so I can’t speak to the problem you were running into.
March 25th, 2004 at 11:39 pm
No problems with Panther here either. I do a lot of Adobe CS-ing, Flash MX-ing, and Dreamweaver-ing but none of this server linking you speak of.
March 26th, 2004 at 7:06 am
Agreed here too. I’ve been building all my files off the server for quite some time. Happy as a clam, Quark-ing, AI-ing, Pshop-ing…
March 26th, 2004 at 3:43 pm
I ordered the Panther upgrade right away, and then, like everything else, it sat on my desk for weeks and weeks. In the meantime, I’d upgraded to 10.2.8 via auto-update whatever it’s called, and then lo and behold, Panther will not install at all over 10.2.8. So here I sit. Non-upgraded, but actually quite content.
March 27th, 2004 at 3:05 pm
Er, dumb question: if a third-party application is causing the OS to crash, doesn’t the third party share some blame as well?
March 27th, 2004 at 7:01 pm
I do mention that Apple and Adobe need to work it out.
Computers suck, don’t they?
March 28th, 2004 at 1:16 pm
My box has become MORE stable after installing Panther.
hm…
The only issues I’ve had are with Macromedia products doing flaky things and crashing more than usual. Apple
has recieved scores bug reports for me do to MX2004 products going *poof* and dissapearing in a cloud of smoke.
One thing that has helped me gain application stablity (besides fixing persmissions regulary) is using font agent pro to manage and most importantly REPAIR damaged fonts. Repairing damaged fonts seemed to help things greatly.
Did you upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3 during you install?
March 29th, 2004 at 1:21 pm
My name is SJC, and sometimes I skim.
Just tell me I did the right thing by buying that Powerbook instead of a Dell, and it’ll all be OK.
March 30th, 2004 at 2:38 pm
SJC,
You did the right thing when you bought a Powerbook instead of the ugly fisher price boat anchor that is a Dell laptop.
That it is of course, unless you *ACTUALLY LIKE* an OS full of ads, getting a new virus or worm every two days, trying to repair fuxored registries, having to clean out 85 lbs. of spyware every week, and looking at an interface that resembles window’s 2000 in a blue and green plastic bubble clownsuit.
Actually, XP is the best OS to come out of Redmond yet. But despite what the Blurbonator says, OSX is still better than XP in many fundamental regards.
April 1st, 2004 at 8:17 am
I upgraded to Panther with a bit of fear, for you are runing a risk with any new version of a system. (What do you expect? This is the world of affordble Home Computers that must be able to do anything for the price of nothing.)
I have absolutely no problem at all with panther but Macromedias MX2004 products, and I can tell you who is to blame in this case. And the new features are breathtaking (although I have to admit that normal users can’t appreciate them. To name only 2: PS and pdf-support inside the system, Font-management inside the system). There is no other system that offers something compareable.