Lion (and now Mountain Lion) runs faster on my mid-2010 baseline MBP than SL ever did.
Snow Leopard's UI was way too colourful and the Aqua scrollbars were far too big and look really dated.
It wasted pixels on scrollbars and that stupid resize widget (thank fuck Apple finally stole something useful out of Windows) which made your windows look really tacky.
Natural scrolling feels a lot nicer than the old-style scrolling, even on my old school mouse with a clicking scroll wheel.
Quick Look doesn't suck (in both UI and functionality - persistent QL is amazing).
You're limited to OpenGL 2.1 (you won't see games for SL now that GL 3.2 goes back to the previous version of OSX. GL 2.1 can go and die and that's a sentiment a lot of developers share).
The entire system's a lot more subtle in appearance and IMO it's visually a lot cleaner.
Don't be surprised by people appreciating the Lion features a lot more now that Mountain Lion's out and devs can finally drop support for SL.
Oo. If we're going to UI nitpick, then I'll just add that having updated to Mountain Lion straight from Snow leopard, the new low contrast UI widgets are driving me up the wall.
I just can't tell whether a UI element is active or not because everything is "pale grey" or "slightly darker grey". UI designers everywhere must be having fits.
The glacial Spaces transitions when you use ctrl^<- or ctrl^-> are excruciating but will hopefully be fixed at some point: I think that's just an oversight.
Lion (and now Mountain Lion) runs faster on my mid-2010 baseline MBP than SL ever did.
Snow Leopard's UI was way too colourful and the Aqua scrollbars were far too big and look really dated.
It wasted pixels on scrollbars and that stupid resize widget (thank fuck Apple finally stole something useful out of Windows) which made your windows look really tacky.
Natural scrolling feels a lot nicer than the old-style scrolling, even on my old school mouse with a clicking scroll wheel.
Quick Look doesn't suck (in both UI and functionality - persistent QL is amazing).
You're limited to OpenGL 2.1 (you won't see games for SL now that GL 3.2 goes back to the previous version of OSX. GL 2.1 can go and die and that's a sentiment a lot of developers share).
The entire system's a lot more subtle in appearance and IMO it's visually a lot cleaner.
Don't be surprised by people appreciating the Lion features a lot more now that Mountain Lion's out and devs can finally drop support for SL.