really digging the look of yosemite :)

@AbbyT.Miller as a single window to content with which you're extremely familiar, it's acceptable.

Abandonment of the title bar; hidden addresses; design inconsistencies within and between apps; less clarity; reduced legibility: I welcome none of those things. forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19401748#post19401748 forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19401351#post19401351 forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19401426#post19401426 forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19401709#post19401709 forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=19382625#post19382625

@AbbyT.Miller that is gorgeous

@bmike @AbbyT.Miller I can agree without hesitation that most aspects of Yosemite are beautiful but for me, the design aspects that cause problems are extremely concerning. If those designs are to be forced upon all users, then I'll never prefer Yosemite … and ultimately that would be the end of OS X as my OS of choice.

@AbbyT.Miller apologies for the curtness of my first response to you. It wasn't personal :-)

Towards an understanding of why I treat the current design of Safari 8 as seriously broken – critically bugged – there's this in UX Stack Exchange (with a first answer from me):

@GrahamPerrin no worries! i think it's a bit of an acquired taste.

FWIW, I tried Mavericks and found it broke too much software in my workflow (granted, some of these are ancient applications), so I used my Time Machine backup to go back to the state of my computer before installing Mavericks.

I find iMovie HD so much more usable than whatever the one with the star-shaped icon is called, and I can get iMovie HD to run well under ML but not anything since.

@DanielLawson I, too, will aim for Mountain Lion.

First: for at least a few days I'll be mostly on Mavericks. Whilst it's almost certain that the SSHD in my MacBookPro5,2 is (as suggested by S.M.A.R.T.) failing, I'm cautiously dragging things out as long as possible to see how it behaves with some of the features of HDAT2 and with fsck_hfs -S

In Apple Support Communities: Storage problems, Core Storage, Disk Utility, checksums, fsck_cs and cksum mismatches

That topic began as a point of reference but as time passes (there's more to add to the topic, dunno when I'll find time) some questions have arisen. If/when there's a reasonable amount of data, I'll probably ask in Ask Different.