Bite me 10.5

[pasithea]

*sigh* So... Right after 10.5 came out, we'd got a family edition of it to install on our machines. Naturally, it turned out it wasn't really compatible with our 400Mhz G4 cubes and it breaks 90% of the applications I own... Unlike a lot of people, I actually buy my software. I'm crazy that way.

Anyhow... It was well past time to upgrade most of my apps anyhow, so I bought a new suite of adobe products, and an update for Maya. Frustratingly, I'd just bought an update to ToonBoom shortly before 10.5 broke it and no free update was being offered. However, since I wasn't animating at the time, I didn't worry about it too much, but I also didn't bother updating my computer to use 10.5

So. Yesterday I went to do some development stuff for work on my home computer and discovered that I could no longer get it to link properly. After a good bit of frustration, I decided it was time to get an update to ToonBoom and switch to 10.5.

So... The ToonBoom update was pretty awesome. I only played with it a bit but it has some new features and things that I was really enjoying. Then I tried to update to 10.5

I'll spare you the swearing and anger. Needless to say, flash forward to 16 hours later and... My harddrive is currently being reformatted. :(

Fucking Hell. I stopped using Windows to get away from bullshit like this. *sigh*

Oh. And before someone goes and says something irksome that will re-direct my ire at them, let me point out that the reason I use Mac is because it's more reliable than Windows, runs all the apps I need/want, and lets me do Unix command line stuff when I need more power. Windows is crap and Linux still doesn't have a lot of the apps I want so Macs are the best solution for me. YMMV but I don't care to hear about it because you and I probably run drastically different sets of applications.

Comments

[tigrise.livejournal.com]

I think you've got more than enough right to be cranky about this. I think it's pretty stupid that the 10.5 install only works reliably on a blank machines. It's stupid, it's ridiculous, and it's bad coding. :(

Yep

[coffeedaiv.livejournal.com]

The side of tech support that does not get talked about is that sometimes (often, really) the product in question really does Suck.
I feel for you.