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Lots 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
by jakobegger 9y ago
Lots 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