10.10.3 is not the worst; the transition from 10.6.8 to 10.7 was the worst migration Apple ever made. I routinely got kernel panics from three or four different causes, poor wifi connectivity, etc....
A number of commenters are saying good things about 10.8 - I've been on 10.8.5 for several months - and, for the first time in a couple years, I actually have to deliberately power cycle My MBAir to put in Security Patches; 10.8.5 is just that stable. I'm constantly amazed to check and see the uptime has been good for several months. The Beachball of death is (mostly) gone. The random freezes (with the exception of the Notification Tray Bug, which Apple hasn't bothered to fix, but they have somehow reduced) are almost completely gone. And, best of all - I haven't had a Kernel panic in 6+ months.
It's going to be a long, long time before I move off of 10.8.5 - life is to short to be screwing around with unreliable operating systems.
What I don't understand - is given that Apple controls the Hardware and the Software and the Drivers - why do they keep releasing such crappy operating systems for 6-9 months every year? Why can't they slow down their tempo, and release a new operating system every other year, but actually release a quality operating system, the way they release quality hardware?
Marco is absolutely right in http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-g... - Apple is seemingly taking pride in releasing shoddy software on a rapid pace, which is the antithesis of what you would think they would want to do to maintain their "quality" brand.
Another problem with Apple - is that the operating system that I would like to put my friends and family on, 10.8.5, is hard to do. At least with Windows, you can buy them a Windows 7 CD for $45, and give them a stable place to start.
A number of commenters are saying good things about 10.8 - I've been on 10.8.5 for several months - and, for the first time in a couple years, I actually have to deliberately power cycle My MBAir to put in Security Patches; 10.8.5 is just that stable. I'm constantly amazed to check and see the uptime has been good for several months. The Beachball of death is (mostly) gone. The random freezes (with the exception of the Notification Tray Bug, which Apple hasn't bothered to fix, but they have somehow reduced) are almost completely gone. And, best of all - I haven't had a Kernel panic in 6+ months.
It's going to be a long, long time before I move off of 10.8.5 - life is to short to be screwing around with unreliable operating systems.
What I don't understand - is given that Apple controls the Hardware and the Software and the Drivers - why do they keep releasing such crappy operating systems for 6-9 months every year? Why can't they slow down their tempo, and release a new operating system every other year, but actually release a quality operating system, the way they release quality hardware?
Marco is absolutely right in http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-g... - Apple is seemingly taking pride in releasing shoddy software on a rapid pace, which is the antithesis of what you would think they would want to do to maintain their "quality" brand.
Another problem with Apple - is that the operating system that I would like to put my friends and family on, 10.8.5, is hard to do. At least with Windows, you can buy them a Windows 7 CD for $45, and give them a stable place to start.