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Leopard: First impressions

Alright, so Leopard has arrived! On Friday I wiped the harddrive of my MacBook and eagerly installed my new OS. I this post I will present some of my thoughts about it, based a couple of days usage.

The good:

• It's very convenient that so much quality software ships with the OS. Built-in svn is nice even tho I prefer Git, since a lot of projects use it. I really wanted the Ruby support to be good. But it turned out that I pretty quickly had to change it with a custom install via MacPorts. The built in Ruby simply refused to install the ruby-postgres gem. I gave the exact same params to extconf.rb with the custom Ruby in place, and it just worked. I had to install PostgreSQL 8.2 from source by the way, since the port for it is broken at the moment. Its still very nice that the OS ships with a up to date Ruby tho.
  
• Spaces are cool, even tho I don't like everything about their behavior. I really want to disable the animated gliding that occurs when you change between spaces.
• The new finder feels much better to use.
• Safari have gotten a bunch of updates as well, I especially like the new search function.
• Its faster than Tiger.

The bad:

• Transparency which you cant turn off. God, I hate transparent windows.
• The new terminal isn't as good as expected. I switched back to iTerm pretty quickly.
• The new dock is way too heavy on the eye candy for my taste.

The ugly:

• A lot of port breakage, but thats to be expected I guess. And most of them get fixed really quick.