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Windows users have long waited a year to install new versions. If Mac users did the same they would have fewer such problems.
by ggg9990 9y ago
Windows users have long waited a year to install new versions. If Mac users did the same they would have fewer such problems.
- Gaelan 9y agoWindows 10, of course, gives you no choice but to install new versions immediately (besides enterprise deployments, of course). Apple's updates are getting sloppy, but at least they're optional.
- wvenable 9y agoNot if you paid for it (Pro version). I never install the latest Windows 10 right away.
- jakobegger 9y agoLots of Mac users wait before they upgrade. (Myself included) I recently looked at stats for my app, and only around 60% of my users are on 10.13, 30% on 10.12, and 10% on older versions. If you use your Mac professionally, there‘s no point in updating every year — it‘s always a hassle and a few weeks of upgrading 3rd party software and fixing random things that don‘t work any more.
- rimliu 9y agoIf we are sharing anecdotes: it was never a hassle for me.
- lloeki 9y agoIt seems quite a lot of people around here have a thing for El Capitan. Coincidentally this is the last one called "OS X".
- rurban 9y agoConfirm. El Capitan is the last good and stable version.
- Fnoord 9y agoDoes 10.11 still get security and reliability updates? As for 10.13. If an OS changes filesystem, its often recommended to wait (same with in the past e.g. FAT32 -> NTFS, Ext2FS -> Ext3FS, Ext3FS -> Ext4FS although IMO the latter two went flawless for me). The reason I went for it -even though benchmarks of encryption + APFS specifically were abysmal compared to encryption + HFS+ whereas no encryption + APFS or no encryption + HFS+ were acceptable differences)- is because it was already tested on iOS.
- lloeki 9y ago> Does 10.11 still get security [...] updates? Yes. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208465 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208465