09-01-2011, 09:08 PM
Chakravartin wrote:
> Auto-quitting of apps.
http://tidbits.com/article/12398
when the TidBITS fanbois complain about something, you KNOW it's broken.
The author likes to have minute control over his OS, even when he can't always explain why very well. That's moved cheese again. There was one instance where he mentioned an app (Preview) quitting on him when he was coming back to it soon, even though it had no open windows and wasn't doing anything. And yet somehow that's a flaw, despite it not being a typical scenario. Whatever.
What was interesting was his initial assumption auto quitting must have been implemented as a way to save RAM, but that the real solution to that is to buy more RAM. That would be great, if I could, but I'm maxed out at 4GB (3GB is recognized on this old mini) which only makes my point even stronger here: I have a choice of running tons of apps on 10.6 and having the Mac do several page-outs to a slow hard disk, or running as many as I practically can on Lion and letting Lion keep things running better by killing a few in the background. Anyone who can't see that as a benefit is either blind, in denial or has modern hardware where it's rarely an issue anyway.
What's really interesting is that if you see yourself as the TidBITS author does, "fully in control" you'd probably prefer to close Terminal windows yourself prior to quitting Terminal, thereby preventing them from reappearing upon the next launch.
Lion sucks.
Yeah, you've shown it's uh, really miserable and without merit.