[tokanizar]

In my opinion, Mavericks is the worst OS X version so far. It's caused a handful of crashes/hangs to my Macbook Pro, which I only encountered with about once or twice a year with Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion. I'm not sure it is caused by the OS itself or the compatibility of the apps I installed, but it's still bad.

I just had a crash few mins ago after I reinstalled the OS entirely last week. According to the crash log, it has something to do with the "kernel_task". That sucks!

[k2enemy]

Each major release of OS X, I know that I should wait until the x.1 release, but I get excited and install the x.0 release anyway. And every release, the same thing happens. Tons of bugs, crashes, and frustration and I swear that next release I'll wait until x.1.

[wonderzombie]

Man, am I just insanely lucky? I've never had such trouble with x.0 releases, during the upgrade or after.

FWIW, I've used at least 2 Macs concurrently since '09, and one since '06.

[tokanizar]

I guess.

I saw that most of the time people did complain about the first releases of the OS. I didn't get most of those problem, though, until Mavericks.

[pohl]

I'm with you. Probably most users are, too. People who aren't experiencing these problems have no need to inhabit threads like these.

[tokanizar]

I guess it would be a wise move. However, we are in 10.9.1 right now and the problem doesn't seem to be gone. Sighhh...

[DrJokepu]

> Mavericks is the worst OS X version so far

You have clearly never used Cheetah.

[mitchty]

As someone thats been on the osx train since 10.2. I get somewhat amused by the "OSX N+latest is the worst OSX" comments.

I had the (dis)pleasure of using someone's 10.1 machine, oy wow, surprised that even got released.

As a counterpart, mavericks has been the most stable osx for myself so far. Additionally the battery life improvements gave me an extra hour on battery alone. You can pry mavericks from my cold dead hands at this point. The energy tab is also really useful at finding out what is using up battery needlessly (looking at you chrome/firefox).

[tokanizar]

I feel jealous with your luck. I've had as many crash as I can imagine since switching to Mac from Windows (before, I don't even remember how many times I got freezing apps or BSOD). And it seems to occur that often since Mavericks so it's my sole assumption.

I agree about the battery life improvements part as a nomadic user. However, it's totally depends on which applications you are using. For me, chrome/firefox, which eats up most of the battery, is used constantly, therefore, cannot be turned off (to save energy, because it doesn't support AppNap, I suppose). I don't see any help looking at the Energy Tab as whatever it's like, I don't have a choice there.

[chongli]

Or OS X Public Beta! Wow, was that thing ever slow on my B&W G3!

[osxrand]

So very low! Those were fun times tho, doing speed tests by seeing how quickly windows would open ;)

[tokanizar]

Sorry, I must have made it clearly. It's among the OS that I've used. I just have been using Mac for about 4 years.

[raingrove]

I think Snow Leopard (10.6) was the most stable OS X release.