I've used every beta successfully (after verifying that my primary apps -- Parallels, iWork suite, Safari, Pixelmator, Xcode, and Skitch -- all worked acceptably. For me, the GM candidates have been rock solid on my 2013 MBPro w/ 16 GB RAM, and late 2009 iMac w/ 4 GB RAM.
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Apple Releases Third OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers
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I've used every beta successfully (after verifying that my primary apps -- Parallels, iWork suite, Safari, Pixelmator, Xcode, and Skitch -- all worked acceptably. For me, the GM candidates have been rock solid on my 2013 MBPro w/ 16 GB RAM, and late 2009 iMac w/ 4 GB RAM.
Busted Finder
To the guy with the busted Finder -
I feel your pain brother. I too get this, the black rectangles and all. Not sure if this fixes it, It doesn't show up straight away.
I also get graphic corruption in the Bookmarks menu in Safari where the icons change colour when you hover over them. This hasn't been fixed either. Will probably clear my machine entirely and install Yosemite from scratch when the final comes out. Feels like an update went wrong sometime during the development process.
To the guy with the busted Finder -
I feel your pain brother. I too get this, the black rectangles and all. Not sure if this fixes it, It doesn't show up straight away.
I also get graphic corruption in the Bookmarks menu in Safari where the icons change colour when you hover over them. This hasn't been fixed either. Will probably clear my machine entirely and install Yosemite from scratch when the final comes out. Feels like an update went wrong sometime during the development process.
This is great! Public Beta means more users, which means more bug reports, which means more frequent updates! Now they need to do the same for iOS. 
Out of interest, how did you get the "Volume" text to show in the popup?
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Anyone know what the build is for this?
It is the complete opposite for my MacBook Pro 2010. Yosemite on mine runs better than all of the previous version 10.6 - 10.9
same here. Mavericks was a constant headache with my 2012 mbp. Yosemite however is much smoother and responsive
Yosemite does use more memory on my MBP, but doesn't seem to on my iMac. Helvetia on the iMac bothers me a lot, though. A lot. I think it looks awful.
I found some hidden terminal commands that adds some options to the System Preferences menu under Sound and a few others.
These aren't GM's. They are GM Candidates. Don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand.
This is like when dealerships stopped calling used cars, used cars- and started calling them "pre-owned"....it's semantics.
"Gold Master Candidate" may as well be called "Beta"....otherwise what's the difference between beta 1, 2, 3, etc. if there's just going to be GM 1, 2, 3, etc.
Don't be so excitable, again, it's semantics.
It's probably another way to access this thing (which I never quite got the purpose of).
Woah, actually never have noticed that. I assume that saves several settings for internet adapters, useful for switching between DHCP at home and maybe static IP address at work so you don't have to reset every time? Not something a ton of people would want, but definitely potentially useful.
Say you have specific settings to use the network at the office, but it's open slather at home, by using "locations" you don't have to remove proxy settings when you get home and then re-add them when you get back to the office...
Edit: Perhaps explained better above, yet been in the system for years... think PowerPC
In terms of speed or uptime? My connection freezes a lot (I even get an exclamation point on the Wi-Fi icon) and the only way to fix it is disabling and enabling back.
If Mavericks is anything to go by, it will be 10.1, 2 or 3 that will improve UI animations.
These aren't GM's. They are GM Candidates. Don't know why this is so hard for some people to understand.
Because betas are supposed to be feature complete, every beta is theoretically a candidate for gm. If they find bugs, they release another beta. When you're done fixing bugs, you release a gm and send it to the press. Releasing strings of "gm candidates" is mockery.
I have GM3 installed on about a dozen different macs and all are having significant email problems. Mail is extremely slow to both send and receive and messages are occasionally missing. After being archived or moved to a different folder, they occasionally reappear in the inbox. There is also long lag periods for email to show up in auxiliary boxes like sent etc... Anyone else seeing this?