Back down to mavericks

I want to back down to mavericks after installing yosemite.  I don't find it user friendly (microsoft level!!!) and my apps and browsers are running slowly.  I have a macbook pro early 2011.  Any help?

OS X Mavericks: Revert to a previous OS X version
same kbase applies to Yosemite as well.

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