Old School? Or?

Old School? Or just set in my ways and resist change?

Edit posted 11/28/2014

I am now a noob with Clover installed Yosemite.

I have made up USB test drive sticks for my machines and have used them to boot my main test beds which all have UniBeast/MultiBeast installed Yosemite partitions. And in this manner have booted into the RAID 0 boot drives.

I then made up a Clover test bed because I wanted to experience UEFI Clover install. I took my time and that machine is 100% vanilla Yosemite with Recovery and Clover in the EFI partition. And the 10.10.1 update installed without intervention on my part (everything worked).

Then I installed Yosemite with Clover on two of my legacy test beds; an EP45 and EX58 and spent enough time to get them nearly 100%.

Summary: At this point I am not greatly impressed with Clover, it does the job but so do Chimera and Chameleon. The great attraction of iMessage is un-important to me on my hacks because I use my iPhone and rMBP as needed. I have yet to try out Continuity and Handoff, so my opinion may change.

I do however have reservations over Yosemite at this point. I am concerned with all of the junk messages in the console log, many of which have shades of security issues. I am not convinced that I want my workstations to behave like mobile devices. I am staying with Mavericks for day to day use at this point.

And a comment on the GUI changes in Yosemite - It is my opinion that Apple has lost ground and cheapened the appearance of the system. I am reminded of some LINUX distributions.

Comments are welcomed.

More when there is more…
neil

[end of 11-28-2014 edit]

I have 12 hacks that I am maintaining (I refer to most of these as lab machines). These are a cross section of recent and and current tech (EP45 and P55 to Z97). I also have an Apple rMBP and I am enrolled as an Apple developer.

Each of the 12 machines has Mavericks 10.9.5 and 8 also now have Yosemite 10.10 and the 8 now boot with Chimera 4.0.0

I have lived with Chameleon and Chimera for what seems like a life time. This boot loader software is like an old friend.

Some have encouraged me to give Clover a try, and I did (and I got lost).

So I will stay with Chimera as it does everything that I need for now.

And thank you TonyMacX86.com for being here.


Good modding,
neil

If anything your exactly the person who should be switching to clover.With so many machines you must have one you could play with clover on that you wouldn't lose anything major. Unlike the majority on here who are trying to switch on their one and only machine.

Just a note that I inserted an edit into post number one.

Good modding,
neil