So who has Yosemite Installed? Whats your thoughts?

[dbm]

Years ago I had an IBM-AT that I could not get to work and I needed it to desparately. My brother spent several hours re-soldered the board then washed it in my sink using regular dish detergent. He then put it in my oven to bake it dry. I think it was at 200 degrees but I am not sure it has been many moons ago. But it worked. I finally retired the computer because it became obsolete.

Lisa

Infamously, the Xbox 'red ring of death' could be recovered by wrapping you Xbox in a towel and putting it an airing cupboard. Same principle I guess.

Never leave home without your towel!

 

[bobert]

Won't wake up

Flatness is different but acceptable.

I'm having some problems waking Mac up from sleep.
Tapping a KB key doesn't work, at times and it takes a restart to get it up again.

Cmd-Alt-P-R doesn't seem to help.
Guess I'll have to call the Appleman

 

[kathmat]

Not so hot so far. I have had to reboot my Mac three times (in two days) as both Mail and Messages just stop working. On an eleven o'clock printer deadline today I had to take pictures of the monitor with my iPad so that I could get the proofs sent and approved as neither of the above applications would work. I am also having problems with the search in File Finder (right arrow in window) greyed out, so I have to use the drop down menu on the menu bar. Spotlight only finding mail with the search topic, not files. I regret having upgraded so quickly, but those reminders from the system are annoying. I did not expect all of these problems. Computer also running at a snail's pace. I know they will sort it out eventually, but in the meantime it is very stressful when you depend on your computer for your livelihood.

 

[drumvudu]

I am so right there with ya bro. Linux is calling my name

 

[cwa107]

I know they will sort it out eventually, but in the meantime it is very stressful when you depend on your computer for your livelihood.

That being the case, may I recommend that next time you wait for the first full point release to come out before upgrading? Early releases of operating systems are well known to have a few bugs that don't shake out until the OS has been tested by the public at large. Apple made a good move opening up to public beta testers this time around, but in my experience, beta testing rarely happens on a full-time, daily used machine for production purposes.

Please tell me you made a backup before upgrading.

 

[cwa107]

I am so right there with ya bro. Linux is calling my name

You're kidding right? Comparatively, Linux is like a house of cards.

 

[kathmat]

You are absolutely right, but Mavericks never gave me a seconds problem, and my nephew had been using the beta and said that he had no problems. and therefore my thinking that all was well in the land of Yosemite. Again as you correctly said though, he does not use his mac for work, just play.

I expected some issues, such as my attachment tamer probably not going to be compatible. ( It was not, but the developer is very good and will no doubt have a new version in a few days.) SketchUp8 keeps quitting, but SketchUp Make seems to work. No problems with the tools of my trade, Photoshop and Illustrator or any of their third party plugins, so I will live with the issues re Mail and Messages and Finder until the bugs are worked out. I have not tried to use Contacts or the Calendar or anything else so far - no time, but will do as soon as I get a moment.

As far as backing-up. I back up my files always, but I am ashamed to say I would not have a clue how to back up the entire machine or for that matter what to do with the back-up.

 

[vansmith]

Success! Finally, Mail can send emails through my Gmail account. I fooled with the port numbers after seeing that Outlook's auto-setup (which worked wonderfully) had a different port number. Changed the SMTP port number to 465 and forced Mail not to "automatically detect and maintain account settings."

 

[drumvudu]

You're kidding right? Comparatively, Linux is like a house of cards.

Linux could potentially be a house of cards if you are unfamiliar with it. I have such a comfort level with it though that once I get my system set up and everything the way I like it, it's endlessly configurable and basically bulletproof.

 

[cwa107]

Linux could potentially be a house of cards if you are unfamiliar with it. I have such a comfort level with it though that once I get my system set up and everything the way I like it, it's endlessly configurable and basically bulletproof.

I have some familiarity with Linux both professionally and personally. However, I find it disturbing how easily I can break the the desktop and put myself into a state where I have to edit config files at the command line to get back into a working GUI. In 2014, I shouldn't need to know what a shell is, let alone manipulate it.

For the average Joe, that's not something you can easily do to OS X. Linux by comparison is far more fragile for that reason.

 

[applegeek911]

I installed OS X Yosemite on my Early 2014 MBA. The new features are incredibly useful and I'm in love the new design (for the most part.) So far, it's been pretty stable - the performance is also impressive compared to OS X Mavericks. I can't really speak for every Mac out there - but anyone with 2013/2014 MacBook Air is probably good to upgrade.

 

[neilf]

With Mavericks, I had terrible problems with Safari locking up my 2012 Mac Min (another story), such that I made Chrome my default browser. Safari on Yosemite , I like very much, but it now is exhibiting a problem of taking an inordinately long time to start up. Sometimes it doesn't even make it to the home screen, and I have to shut it down. Looks like it's back to Chrome.
Anyone else having any such problems.

 

[drumvudu]

I have some familiarity with Linux both professionally and personally. However, I find it disturbing how easily I can break the the desktop and put myself into a state where I have to edit config files at the command line to get back into a working GUI. In 2014, I shouldn't need to know what a shell is, let alone manipulate it.

For the average Joe, that's not something you can easily do to OS X. Linux by comparison is far more fragile for that reason.

I'm not sure which disto you were using and under what circumstances but a distribution like Mint or Ubuntu has a desktop environment at least as solid as any other. You must remember one caveat when it comes to any operating system; OS's are just like life, with more freedom comes more responsibility. In order for Linux to be endlessly configureable/tuneable/pliable to the users will, it inherently will give you the power to destroy it if you so chose or lack the knowledge to keep yourself from doing so. If you don't operate as root though, the chances of your doing damage to anything other than your user account which can easily be replicated are almost nill.

 

[cbreze]

One thing I really like is that Safari is much snappier. I don't mind using it now as previously Chrome was my go to browser. Over all I'm glad to have updated. The flatness folks speak of in the UI doesn't bother me after the first couple of days . Using a MBP.

 

[vansmith]

And Yosemite just locked up on me and randomly shut down my MBP. Honestly, I swear Apple is trying to drive me away from the Mac platform...

 

[cwa107]

Against my better judgement, I went ahead and installed it this evening. I did a full backup first with SuperDuper, just in case I need to go back.

I have to say, the appearance is pretty jarring. I knew I didn't care for the look, but I didn't think it would be so darn intrusive. I found that setting the dock and menu bar to "dark mode" helped quite a bit, but it's still so "cartoonish" and not pleasant to look at. It looks like something produced by Little Tikes, not by a technology company. Even iOS 7 didn't annoy me this much.

That said, performance and features-wise, it seems to work well enough. I tested Mail right away and found no issues, let's hope it stays that way.

Anyone know how to turn the Bookmarks bar back on in Safari (assuming that's possible)?

 

[drumvudu]

Against my better judgement, I went ahead and installed it this evening. I did a full backup first with SuperDuper, just in case I need to go back.

I have to say, the appearance is pretty jarring. I knew I didn't care for the look, but I didn't think it would be so darn intrusive. I found that setting the dock and menu bar to "dark mode" helped quite a bit, but it's still so "cartoonish" and not pleasant to look at. It looks like something produced by Little Tikes, not by a technology company. Even iOS 7 didn't annoy me this much.

That said, performance and features-wise, it seems to work well enough. I tested Mail right away and found no issues, let's hope it stays that way.

Anyone know how to turn the Bookmarks bar back on in Safari (assuming that's possible)?

I couldn't agree more. I hate the look of Yosemite and IOS7 & 8. The other day, I had reason to pull out my old 1st gen iPhone and when I saw the screen, it actually shocked me how beautiful the art was. All the depth in the icons and widgets, it literally shocked me,. I just don't get how making everything looked completely childish and whitewashed is supposed to be a step forward. This is basically what OS X looked like 10 years ago.
The bookmarks bar is there BTW. There is a button to show it and retract it if you edit the safari toolbar.

 

[midway40]

cwa107, click on View and Show Favorites Bar.

 

[cwa107]

Well kids, Mavericks is on its way to reinstalling on my SSD.

Apparently enabling TRIM on a third party drive on Yosemite is a big no-no as it resulted in my machine no longer being able to boot. Luckily, I did a complete backup of the SSD with SuperDuper first and was able to instantly revert back.

I must say that after a few hours of looking at the garish monstrosety that is Yosemite, it was quite a relief to my retinas to see the balanced, refined look of Mavericks yet again.

 

[dtravis7]

Well kids, Mavericks is on its way to reinstalling on my SSD.

Apparently enabling TRIM on a third party drive on Yosemite is a big no-no as it resulted in my machine no longer being able to boot. Luckily, I did a complete backup of the SSD with SuperDuper first and was able to instantly revert back.

I must say that after a few hours of looking at the garish monstrosety that is Yosemite, it was quite a relief to my retinas to see the balanced, refined look of Mavericks yet again.

OUCH! I had read that TRIM did not work as yet in Yosemite and to me that is a large deal if you have an SSD!