Late to the party, upgrading from Leopard to the snowy cat, what do I need to know?

[Gareth]

For a variety of reasons, 10.6 isn't working out for me. I'm going back to 10.5 this weekend. It's probably partly my fault for using the 10.6 upgrade to fix a hosed 10.5 system, but since I still use Rosetta, I don't see the point in using 10.6.

[Mike Sellers]

I installed SL on a separate partition but didn't try to start using it regularly until last week. Lots of slowness, apps taking forever to launch, computer almost totally freezing up. I honestly thought my hard drive was dying. I went to the Apple forums last night and it seems to be a pretty common problem and Safari and old Quicktime plugins may be the culprit. I cleaned out all my of QT plugins and the divx plugins. Then I switched Safari to 32-bit mode. Things seem to be working fine for now.

[bazookaman]

I've got Snowchecker installed from the wikidot link.

[Bill in NC]

Rosetta is poorly implemented.

Applications that worked just fine under Leopard w/ Rosetta don't work now (Toast 5) or take forever to launch (AOE II)

[Trouble]

Panopticon wrote:
The only thing I don't like about Snow Leopard is how, when I right-click to close an app from the dock, how the whole screen goes dark. Just can't get used to that, but otherwise no issues.

huh???
on 10.6.2 here & I don't see that happening. App just closes.

He is holding down the mouse button on the dock icon and activating dock espose.

Here is how to diable it.

Copy paste into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Dock show-expose-menus -bool no
killall Dock

[Speedy]

Wouldn't run on my G5 running Tiger. And, yes, I know SL won't run on the G5.

bazookaman wrote:
I've got Snowchecker installed from the wikidot link.

[dreed2]

Thanks for the Terminal info on how to stop that from happening.