Is restoring a Time Machine backup on a clean install of OS X Mavericks still a 'clean' install? I would like to upgrade to OS X Mavericks. Also, I think it would be a good chance to clean up my system.

My question is: If do a clean install of OS X Mavericks and then restore my machine from a Time Machine backup, then…


would this still be "clean"? …or would this just be the same as upgrading my system the regular way?
will I lose any data/settings/apps?


Thank you guys for your help!
If you reinstall 10.9, don’t choose "Restore from Time Machine Backup". Make a simple install after you reformatted your drive with Disk Utility.

After the install, the setup process will start and you can choose if you want to restore from Time Machine. I would recommend you to deselect the System to restore, just your home directory and your applications. So you will just restore your data (docs, music, pics), your applications settings (~/Library) and the application bundles from /Application.

This the closest you can get to a "clean" install, without manually migrating your data and setup again every single app.