There are 2 approaches to installing Yosemite. A lot of people install Yosemite on top of an already installed version of OS X such Mavericks 10.9. Others like myself, like to do a clean install of major OS X releases.
When I do a clean install I first make sure that a Time Machine backup has been performed. I boot to a OS X installer I previously created. When the installer runs I launch Disk Utility from the installer menu, select the internal hard drive and then erase it. I exit Disk Utility and proceed with the install. This takes about 15 minutes or so. I then start creating the user accounts. When I restore the user data from the Time Machine backup I manually copy over data from ~/Library/Application Support and ~/Library/Preferences. I also re-install applications from scratch. I like doing the install this way because I get a chance to clean out old data that is no longer needed. This approach does take some extra time.
That sounds like a good way to do it, however..... even though I've been using Macs 20+ years, I do not feel competent enough to do all that, manually copying data from those Library files, re-installing all apps from scratch? That alone would take me hours & hours, if I even have the original dmg files for every one, etc. And if something went wrong and things went South, then I'd really be in a big mess...
And you suggested those with issues call Apple. Well I did then when a previous update went awry, several years ago, was told by a higher level support person they were aware of the bug, were working on fixing it asap, and a corrected update would be out soon. Well three weeks later no fix had been released, so I called back, talked to another higher level person, and this time was told there was in fact no bug, he knew nothing of what i was talking about, and everything was fine.... So much for calling Apple!
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Why are you treating this like a contest?
I never said that people don't have real issues with Yosemite. But at the same time I am not going to tell any user that they should not install Yosemite because there could be a possibility that they will have a problem.
If you look at my posts I have been helping posters solve their problems they have with Yosemite. So I read all the problems posters are reporting. You act like I have been putting my hands over my ears, screaming "MEMMEME".
Let me ask you this, if you consider all the people that post on every forum on the internet that have had issues with Yosemite, how many people do you think are having issues outside of the forums? 10,000? 100,000? 500,000? More then 500,000? If the issues are as wide spread as what you proport them to be then the number should be very higher. Or is it the case you think any person that has an issue is too many. Kind of the chicken little syndrome, running around reporting the sky is falling.
Taz, how do you even know the "real numbers" of those with problems? I also don't buy that numbers are skewed because more with issues post in forums, because the truth is, many with issues don't bother, or don't have the time, as they're wasting too much of it trying to deal with their issues.
And the fact that many seem to be doing fine (and I see very few who say they've have zero issues), is no evidence that it's not buggy. Millions of cars are recalled, yet not every single one has the defect causing the recall. But if you have a product that is supposed to drive everyone's Mac, and a very sizable number of even expert users are screaming foul, discounting Apple's role is, well, irrational.
Even if 90% of all the issues have to do with "incompatibilities", wouldn't that mean there are programs out there very common to most Mac users, that are causing glitches, and if so, then it's certainly on Apple to create new OS that will work with those common programs.
If 30% of all Falcons fans attending games are handicapped, not providing extra ramps would simply be a dumb move for the organization. Companies need to think of their user-base, NOT just "hey this would be cool to do", constructing a new OS... I'd rather they fix what they have than tread forward as sloppily as it sure seems like they do.
