That's cute how you had to throw in how great Windows 8
.1 (which was a major software update to an already horrible OS in fact) is when Mavericks only had a very small software update since the point zero release recently to address a very small part of the OS.

. Here's a thought, either go back to your older Mac OS install or wait it out and allow Apple to fix the problems as they have with every OS they've released. Snow Leopard was shot down as the biggest piece of poop since Vista and Win ME, but after several software updates and fixes people treat it as the holy grail of the Mac as if it's never had a problem ever.