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Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to macOS Catalina Yet?

4 points by ryanmccullagh 7y ago

Have you noticed any bugs, or features that weren't on the Apple announcement page?

api 7y ago
Yes. No serious issues so far, and I like being able to use the Jira iPad app.
- asdkhadsj 7y ago
  Whoa, didn't know that was a thing. Vaguely I have heard about running iOS stuff on Desktop, but I didn't follow closely because I had no interest in it. Now.. I do. Will have to give this a try, thanks!
  - api 7y ago
    You can't do it with just any iOS app. It has to be recompiled by the dev. It's basically just rebuilding it for X64 instead of ARM64 and linking slightly differently though, so lots of apps are doing it.
andrei_says_ 7y ago
No and I don't intend to for a while after reading this: https://tyler.io/broken/ https://tyler.io/broken/
jjjbokma 7y ago
Not yet, probably next month.
cerberusss 7y ago
Installed it, and had been running the beta for some time. No problems that I can think of. But I don’t use iPhoto, or any apps that depend on iCloud Drive.
kevinherron 7y ago
Not yet. Will probably wait for .2 release. It's my work computer so I'm not in a big hurry.
tmaly 7y ago
I have not, there were people that told me it was not working with Cisco VPN software. Having the ability to work over VPN is far more important than having the latest OSX
SamReidHughes 7y ago
Yes. The one problem I had was that an XCode update would fail to install after a complete download. After the latest update (to 15.1? IIRC), that stopped happening.
Maxtylor 7y ago
Not yet, maybe sonn
sdan 7y ago
I have but regret it.
shabirgilkar 7y ago
Yes I upgraded as well. As a designer I haven't faced any problems in my work so far. All the design tools work nicely as before except Adobe products(which I'm not using for a long time now but I read about Adobe tools facing some problem on internet)
tikej 7y ago
No, I have not. I don't trust the Apple enough to break my workflow at the moment although I don't even use any 32 bit apps (at least that I'm aware of). I will also wait for some .2 or further release.
asdkhadsj 7y ago
I usually upgrade my travel laptop first before my daily driver laptop. So far, no troubles on my travel laptop. However I've only used it minimally. I'm going to give my main laptop another month before I upgrade, I imagine.
jamil7 7y ago
Yeah I was on the betas because I wanted to checkout SwiftUI, I upgraded to the public release a few weeks ago. I had issues with the XCode beta during the beta period and some weird glitches in system preferences but all that seems fixed now. I seem to be super lucky that I haven't had any of the issues people have been talking about.
djzidon 7y ago
No - the new features don't outweigh the potential headache for me. I don't see the point right now, other than getting rid of the annoying popup (but still nowhere near as annoying as the windows update popups were haha).
api_dolla 7y ago
No— I’ve been burned before with upgrading soon after release and I worry that some of my audio software won’t work.
vpEfljFL 7y ago
I've upgraded one of my machines in order to try native jira app from AppStore. Plot twist: I can't login to AppStore now from that device, it just says "unexpected error" or something like that. No reboot/relogin fixed that no matter what. Plenty of people with the same issue as me as well who can't use AppStore.
dmlittle 7y ago
No. Just 1hr ago a colleague accidentally upgraded to Catalina and her computer is stuck on an infinite restart loop.
thijsvandien 7y ago
I only just upgraded to Mojave, after long consideration. Still some rough edges, but by now that one works acceptably to me.
gshdg 7y ago
Just got a new laptop with it. Had some frustrations with the Applications folder lockdown and some of the apps being dumbed down even further than before. But no glitches.
schappim 7y ago
No - I have some 32bit apps that provide more utility than Catalina provides.

Have you noticed any bugs, or features that weren't on the Apple announcement page?

api 7y ago

Yes. No serious issues so far, and I like being able to use the Jira iPad app.

asdkhadsj 7y ago
Whoa, didn't know that was a thing. Vaguely I have heard about running iOS stuff on Desktop, but I didn't follow closely because I had no interest in it. Now.. I do. Will have to give this a try, thanks!
- api 7y ago
  You can't do it with just any iOS app. It has to be recompiled by the dev. It's basically just rebuilding it for X64 instead of ARM64 and linking slightly differently though, so lots of apps are doing it.

andrei_says_ 7y ago

No and I don't intend to for a while after reading this: https://tyler.io/broken/ https://tyler.io/broken/

jjjbokma 7y ago

Not yet, probably next month.

cerberusss 7y ago

Installed it, and had been running the beta for some time. No problems that I can think of. But I don’t use iPhoto, or any apps that depend on iCloud Drive.

kevinherron 7y ago

Not yet. Will probably wait for .2 release. It's my work computer so I'm not in a big hurry.

tmaly 7y ago

I have not, there were people that told me it was not working with Cisco VPN software. Having the ability to work over VPN is far more important than having the latest OSX

SamReidHughes 7y ago

Yes. The one problem I had was that an XCode update would fail to install after a complete download. After the latest update (to 15.1? IIRC), that stopped happening.

Maxtylor 7y ago

Not yet, maybe sonn

sdan 7y ago

I have but regret it.

shabirgilkar 7y ago

Yes I upgraded as well. As a designer I haven't faced any problems in my work so far. All the design tools work nicely as before except Adobe products(which I'm not using for a long time now but I read about Adobe tools facing some problem on internet)

tikej 7y ago

No, I have not. I don't trust the Apple enough to break my workflow at the moment although I don't even use any 32 bit apps (at least that I'm aware of). I will also wait for some .2 or further release.

asdkhadsj 7y ago

I usually upgrade my travel laptop first before my daily driver laptop. So far, no troubles on my travel laptop. However I've only used it minimally. I'm going to give my main laptop another month before I upgrade, I imagine.

jamil7 7y ago

Yeah I was on the betas because I wanted to checkout SwiftUI, I upgraded to the public release a few weeks ago. I had issues with the XCode beta during the beta period and some weird glitches in system preferences but all that seems fixed now. I seem to be super lucky that I haven't had any of the issues people have been talking about.

djzidon 7y ago

No - the new features don't outweigh the potential headache for me. I don't see the point right now, other than getting rid of the annoying popup (but still nowhere near as annoying as the windows update popups were haha).

api_dolla 7y ago

No— I’ve been burned before with upgrading soon after release and I worry that some of my audio software won’t work.

vpEfljFL 7y ago

I've upgraded one of my machines in order to try native jira app from AppStore. Plot twist: I can't login to AppStore now from that device, it just says "unexpected error" or something like that. No reboot/relogin fixed that no matter what. Plenty of people with the same issue as me as well who can't use AppStore.

dmlittle 7y ago

No. Just 1hr ago a colleague accidentally upgraded to Catalina and her computer is stuck on an infinite restart loop.

thijsvandien 7y ago

I only just upgraded to Mojave, after long consideration. Still some rough edges, but by now that one works acceptably to me.

gshdg 7y ago

Just got a new laptop with it. Had some frustrations with the Applications folder lockdown and some of the apps being dumbed down even further than before. But no glitches.

schappim 7y ago

No - I have some 32bit apps that provide more utility than Catalina provides.