Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

I've seen many comments about people having different problems and trouble with the new OS X Lion, does anyone recommend me to download it? My current OS is Mac OS X 10.6.7.

Ziatron wrote:
I am waiting for Lion to be released on DVD before I make the change.
You make your own now.
Backup Lion Bootable 10.7 Disk
Purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Mac running Snow Leopard.
Right click on “Mac OS X     Lion”     installer and choose the option to     “Show Package Contents.”
Inside the Contents folder     that     appears you will find a SharedSupport     folder and inside the     SharedSupport folder     you will find the “InstallESD.dmg.” This is         the Lion boot disc image we have all been waiting for.
Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to         another folder like the Desktop.
Launch Disk Utility and click     the     burn button.
Select the copied “InstallESD.dmg” as the image to     burn,     insert a standard sized 4.7 GB DVD,     and wait for your new Lion Boot     Disc to come     out toasty hot.
With this disc you can boot any Lion compatible Mac, andinstall10.7 just like you installed previous version of Mac OS X. Youcan even use Disk Utility's Restore function to image your Lion bootdisc image onto a external drive suitable for performing a cleaninstall on a optical-drive-less MacBook Air, or Mac mini server.

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          url="https://tools.google.com/service/update2"
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                        <app appid="com.google.Keystone" status="ok">
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                        <app appid="com.google.macphotouploader" status="ok">
                            <ping status="ok"></ping>
                            <updatecheck status="noupdate"></updatecheck>
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12/12/12 3:00:53.534 AM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[707]: -[KSPrefetchAction performAction] KSPrefetchAction no updates to prefetch.
12/12/12 3:00:53.535 AM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[707]: -[KSMultiUpdateAction performAction] KSSilentUpdateAction had no updates to apply.
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12/12/12 3:00:53.537 AM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[707]: -[KSUpdateEngine(PrivateMethods) updateFinish] KSUpdateEngine update processing complete.
12/12/12 3:00:54.878 AM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[707]: -[KeystoneDaemon logServiceState] GoogleSoftwareUpdate daemon (1.1.0.3659) vending:
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          com.google.Keystone.Daemon.Administration: 0 connection(s)
12/12/12 3:01:22.038 AM GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon[707]: -[KeystoneDaemon main] GoogleSoftwareUpdateDaemon inactive, shutdown.
12/12/12 3:59:35.000 AM kernel[0]: CODE SIGNING: cs_invalid_page(0x1000): p=793[GoogleSoftwareUp] clearing CS_VALID
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