Funny, I still have ~/Library and ~Applications.  But then I use Path Finder.  I believe they are both hidden in the Finder.  There are several ways to turn on "Show hidden Folders" in the Finder.  I believe OnyX will do it.  I Also have my Dock centered on the right.  I believe OnyX also let me center it when the Dock preferences placed it at the bottom of the screen.  I love Lion.  I went out and bought a magic Trackpad prior to installing.  The trackpad works so well in Lion. Extended use of the mouse tended to make my wrist ache. I have it on the left, where I used to have my mighty mouse.  But now I can have my mouse work right handed, so my wife and fellow workers can actually use it without getting confused.

And I live an hour away from the nearest Apple reseller (there are now three in Asheville) and my store in Asheville is 30 minutes away from them.  I am 3 hours from the nearest Apple store in Charlotte, But a mitigating  factor is my step daughter lives less than 20 minutes from the store.  Getting Leopard and Snow Leopard meant calling the store a couple of times a week for 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 weeks to find out when they actually had a copy of the DVD in stock so I could come by and purchase it.  Then I had to use up time and gas getting to the store.  Lion was so easy.  I just let it download at the store while I went about my business.  I took about a half an hour, cost $100 less than Leopard.  I made a copy of the install disk image, put it on an 8 GB thumb drive. Easy.  I save gas, time and money.  I am all for the new delivery method, but I understand opinions and experiences vary.  The only programs that I lost the use of were from Adobe, and I haven't used Adobe Reader or Photoshop Elements 2 or 4 in years.  iPhoto, Graphic Converter and Lightroom do fine.  And I can even run GIMP and all those X11 graphic programs.

Geoff et al, can I serve you some cheese with that whine? <G>

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