Sticking with Lion for now.

Based on all the trouble that people are having, and based on all the issues that people went through, including me, when upgrading to Lion, I am sticking with Lion for a while.
Lion is stable enough for me and whatever quirks and speed issues that might remain are not enough to make me torture myself and wreck my system for now.
I'll wait for 10.8.4 at least. I can't imagine all the people having trouble are novices.
Is this what Apple expects? Its users to find out what's wrong with their OS?

Mountain Lion upgrade from Lion on three Macs went
just fine. Prior to upgrade, made sure all apps were
updated (or upgraded) to most recent versions available.
Did checks to insure all hard drives were in good shape.
Most importantly, backed up all data and also created clones
of each system, so if there were problems, return to normalcy
would be quick.
The systems:
2011 Mac Mini Server (without Server)
early 2011 13" 2.7GHz i7 Macbook Pro
mid 2010 Mac Mini used as HTPC

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Reinstalling Lion
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Message was edited by: Sally E Cohen

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