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I have similar feelings. On the one hand I would love to check out the new version of MacOS. On the other hand I use my machine for work and can't afford any do

I have similar feelings. On the one hand I would love to check out the new version of MacOS. On the other hand I use my machine for work and can't afford any downtime. I upgraded to Catalina 5-8 months after it was released, mostly because the initial rollout was so rocky (at least according to the articles on HN). Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable release than Catalina.

acdha 6y ago
> I upgraded to Catalina 5-8 months after it was released, mostly because the initial rollout was so rocky (at least according to the articles on HN). The last part is the key: people who have problems usually complain loudly and widely, so there's a huge sampling bias. I've been using and supporting Macs professionally since the 90s. In that time, I've had exactly one case where a day one upgrade broke something — 10.4 shipped with a bug where all NFS exports were read-only — as long as you did a check first to confirm that any commercial software you were using was supporting (e.g. Adobe sometimes had fairly long delays). There are two common problems you'll see frequently: a system which was already failing will be attributed to the new OS (I've seen people claim it broke their hard drive, when it was really just the first problem which couldn't be excused as a fluke), and people will often say that their system got slow because Spotlight / Photos were reindexing in the background.
vmchale 6y ago
My speakers were sporadically broken after Catalina lol.
- FabHK 6y ago
  Hardware problem, or just no sound? I've found that force-quitting `coreaudiod` would fix missing sound.
alwillis 6y ago
Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable release than Catalina. I had several problems with the early releases of Catalina, including my Apple-made USB keyboard not being recognized. Even after it seemingly was fixed, a dot release would break it again. I did at least two clean installs to resolve the problem once a stable version of Catalina was released. It's completely different with Big Sur. I upgraded my work machine to Big Sur. After the Spotlight indexing was done, everything was working as it was previously, except I had the latest and greatest operating system. It's still only been a few days but so far, I have no complaints about Big Sur. Loving the new desktop dynamic illustrations and how much faster Safari is, even compared to Catalina. Obviously YMMV but so far, it's been smooth sailing with Big Sur.
- jamil7 6y ago
  I’ve been on it since one of the earlier betas for testing reasons and it’s been a bumpy ride, I’ve filed more feedback than before. It’s definitely stabilised a lot though and feels reasonably solid today. There’s a few nagging visual bugs and weird performance spikes floating around though.

acdha 6y ago

> I upgraded to Catalina 5-8 months after it was released, mostly because the initial rollout was so rocky (at least according to the articles on HN). The last part is the key: people who have problems usually complain loudly and widely, so there's a huge sampling bias. I've been using and supporting Macs professionally since the 90s. In that time, I've had exactly one case where a day one upgrade broke something — 10.4 shipped with a bug where all NFS exports were read-only — as long as you did a check first to confirm that any commercial software you were using was supporting (e.g. Adobe sometimes had fairly long delays). There are two common problems you'll see frequently: a system which was already failing will be attributed to the new OS (I've seen people claim it broke their hard drive, when it was really just the first problem which couldn't be excused as a fluke), and people will often say that their system got slow because Spotlight / Photos were reindexing in the background.

vmchale 6y ago

My speakers were sporadically broken after Catalina lol.

FabHK 6y ago
Hardware problem, or just no sound? I've found that force-quitting `coreaudiod` would fix missing sound.

alwillis 6y ago

Going to keep my eyes peeled for reviews here in the next few weeks. Hopefully this is a more stable release than Catalina. I had several problems with the early releases of Catalina, including my Apple-made USB keyboard not being recognized. Even after it seemingly was fixed, a dot release would break it again. I did at least two clean installs to resolve the problem once a stable version of Catalina was released. It's completely different with Big Sur. I upgraded my work machine to Big Sur. After the Spotlight indexing was done, everything was working as it was previously, except I had the latest and greatest operating system. It's still only been a few days but so far, I have no complaints about Big Sur. Loving the new desktop dynamic illustrations and how much faster Safari is, even compared to Catalina. Obviously YMMV but so far, it's been smooth sailing with Big Sur.

jamil7 6y ago
I’ve been on it since one of the earlier betas for testing reasons and it’s been a bumpy ride, I’ve filed more feedback than before. It’s definitely stabilised a lot though and feels reasonably solid today. There’s a few nagging visual bugs and weird performance spikes floating around though.