Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is worse than Windows Vista, says ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
You've heard the saying, give a hacker a fish and he'll eat for a day, but screw up his OS and he'll dig a hole and make you jump in.
Such is the case with ZDNet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
Having lived with the pain of Vista pre-SP1, I can tell you that the problems currently facing Apple with Lion are worse. Much worse.
Others report no problems with Lion, so it seems some hardware responds better than other configurations. At $29 for the upgrade, at least the only potential pain is in time and productivity ....
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I ordinarily enjoy Mr. Kingsley-Hughes' posts, but the title of this seems like pure click bate/flame war fodder. I think there's a big difference between a buggy unpatched new OS like Lion and the issues facing Vista which were based around a lack of drivers and poor performance for upgraders. Not to say he doesn't have a right to write about his frustrations, if Apple is releasing buggy code they deserve internet wrath, but the title is totally misleading.
To be fair, I've heard about a lot of unhappy people upgrading servers to 10.7. That people want to run a Mac server should give Linux developers pause. There should be more things like FreeNAS with GUI configuration based on Linux (and if they're already out there, we need to know more about them).
The whole thing about real men and the command line doesn't work for a great majority of potential home and small-business server users. The Mac server offering addresses that market, and Linux could eat both their and Microsoft's lunches with the right products.