Updating to Yosemite: Easier, tougher, or about the same as installing previous versions of Mac OS?

[Richie3000]

Curious to hear from the TonyMac community, how's your experience been w/upgrading to the new Yosemite OS?

Easier than previous versions of OS X?

About the same as earlier versions of OS X?

Yosemite is the toughest yet?

 

[Crazylegsmurphy]

I actually had two answers.

When I installed Yosemite via Chameleon it worked perfectly and I had no issues. I was up and running in an hour or so.

The hard part was that I decided to migrate to Clover, meaning it added about two days onto the install. However, for my troubles, it appears I have an almost fully functioning version of Yosemite, with iMessage (no Handoff, or Airdrop though).

So ya, it was easy, but hard.

 

[langweiler94]

Personally, it was the toughest since 10.6

1. The Installer took forever because he had to copy my MacTex installation
2. You'll need the kext-dev-mode flag, which i don't like, because this feature can be removed by apple (hopefully they will refrain from that)
3. I get random KP's if I don't boot from a boot loader installation in the EFI Partition, which additionally rules out my internal 3TB HDD as Bootloader Location forcing me to boot from a USB-Stick
4. I had multiple KP's when I tried to boot during installation, and my second test partition even got randomly unbootable, i had to boot with -x to get it back.
5. I now have to force a kernel cache update, as Yosemite doesn't seem to do this automatically anymore.
6. The HDAEnabler stopped working (Audio-Id didn't change from 0), so I had to add additional code to my SSDT.
7. NullCPUPowerManagement stopped my machine from booting, now i have to go without NullCPU (i don't have a custom DSDT!)
8. GenericUSBXHCI stopped my USB from working (in Mavericks everything was fine), so I had to remove it
9. My Installation bootup log is full of unsolvable errors (cosmetic ones), which is driving me nuts.

I had to spend my entire Sunday to get this **** working... On the + Side, my Intel I217V doesn't crash with the AppleIntelE1000e anymore, and the system seems faster...