Mac OS X Mavericks

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Anyone attempt to install Mavericks? If you have, wadaya think of it?

I have not yet installed it (too tired after work today) but in theory it rocks --- coming from someone with an old special interest in Operating Systems and kernel knowledge of Linux, FreeBSD, Mach, and microcontroller hard realtime schedulers ...

I am more interested in the kernel changes (also safari threading model changes) that most people won't notice directly... But most likely most people will improved responsiveness, overall performance, and battery life.

I'm going to grab it now.

I've been running the developer preview for a while on my laptop - it's been good to me.

I really like it, though on my setup it took a little work, specifically:

* I had to reinstall X-code tools, Java and Brew which took a few minutes.
* Spotlight performed a full re-index which took all night and slowed the machine down.
* Little Snitch died. I just took it off and enabled the built in firewall.
* Crashplan died and made my machine ran slowly as it tried over and over to reboot. I reinstalled it and it works.
* Pages and Numbers failed to launch. I had to reset my fonts to the default set to fix the issue.

Benefits are:

* It wakes from sleep instantly.
* It feels much snappier.
* The skeuomorphism has been knocked down several notches.
* The picker has been removed from pages and numbers and been replaced with a much nicer UI.
* It the machine runs out of battery and force hibernates, it wakes up and recovers much faster, seconds rather than minutes.
* The five finger spread gesture works much more happily.
* Loads of other little things.

Generally speaking it's faster and nicer.