Is 10.10.5 more stable than 10.10.0?

### Straight to the point. I am using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) and have stayed on it mainly due to overall system stability. I don’t want to reboot or deal with crashes from Mac OS X or a Linux machine. From what I have read, heard and seen about Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) it had issues with random crashes and memory leaks so I avoided it. For example, this Engadget post kvetches about Yosemite stability issues to no end: > In performance, Yosemite didn't shine either, with altergeist > complaining of "GPU panics, hard crashes, freezes and lower > performance in benchmarks than Mavericks," commenting that even > Windows Vista was "fundamentally more stable and reliable than > Yosemite." Sydneystufff said, "I have wasted countless hours of > my time force quitting, re-starting, re-installing on a daily/hourly > basis" and GeeboH calls Yosemite "the most unstable version of OS > X I've used since 2001 ." Similar details on the Yosemite project page on Engadget as well. Now with Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) out I am not too hot on getting into that version of the OS too quickly since I no longer trust Apple’s initial major version releases and am wary of SIP (System Integrity Protection) for now.. But I am considering an upgrade to Yosemite to the 10.10.5 version to at least be a part of the “more modern” world; I want to stay stable but not too far behind the OS support curve. Since I have stayed on Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) for overall system stability, do I risk losing that stability with an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)? If I have to trade stability for “newness” I’m not into an upgrade just yet but would like to hear some real-world information from people who might have been in the same boat as me. I would like to think that the 10.10.5 is more stable than the initial 10.10 release. ### More details. I am one of those users out there who is still using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) mainly for overall system stability and performance. Basically when Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) there seemed to be tons of reports of system crashes and required reboots for recovery and that’s not what I’m used to in an OS. Using Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) on my Mac Mini (Late 2012) and I have pretty much never experienced random crashes or failures so server I need to hard reboot the system. Maybe one or two oddball kernel panic over the years, but nothing too bad. Here are my systems specs: - **Model:** Mac Mini (Late 2012) - **CPU:** 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 - **GPU:** Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB - **RAM:** 16GB (1600 MHz DDR3) - **Storage:** 500GB SATA hard disk drive; about 40GB used. I don’t use any Adobe or Microsoft products and mainly use my Mac for Linux/Unix systems administration and web development tasks. Here is what I use on a regular basis: - Instead of Microsoft Office, I use Libre Office for it’s word processing and spreadsheet functionality, but maybe once a week. - Instead of Photoshop, I use GraphicConvertor and Pixelmator for photo editing. - I use VirtualBox far more for my tasks mainly running simple, non-GUI Linux server instances. - In Mac OS X I use Apple’s command line development tools for tool compiling in Bash. - And of course I use some of the standard Mac OS X built-in software such as Safari, Mail, iTunes and iPhoto. FWIW, iTunes crashes like crazy nowadays, but I know that is most likely just iTune. iPhoto is rock solid. - Past any of that I might fire up Handbrake or use others similar media conversion tools, but I doubt those would fall victim to—or cause—any system stability issue. So what is the general consensus on the overall system stability of Mac OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)?