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Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with what
by egypturnash 6y ago
Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.
- whalesalad 6y agoI religiously upgraded every machine up until this same release. I never had issues, and my tenure began at Tiger. Everything was smooth sailing – perhaps because I made sure to take a backup before every upgrade which might have protected me from Murphy's law. I am also sitting still on Mojave. In the past there were usually compelling reasons to upgrade - in terms of quality of life and performance. Catalina, in my use cases, doesn't really do a whole lot for me. I can't think of a single feature that I want aside from perhaps the standalone Podcasts app. But because of all the noise raised during the last upgrade season from Mojave to Catalina I decided that the juice definitely wasn't gonna be worth the squeeze. So now I have pretty much decided to just cruise this 2018 MBP along on Mojave until I replace the machine entirely. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
- blub 6y agoProblem is it's broken from a security POV. This Big Sur release of course has a bunch of security fixes and it's not clear when/if they'll get backported to previous versions.
- whalesalad 6y agoMojave still receives regular updates.
- thebigspacefuck 6y agoMight just be me, but the Podcasts app was actually pretty slow for me on a 2015 MBP, even though the phone version always worked great. I ended up switching to Spotify for my podcasts. No other benefits to upgrading I can remember. It makes your security settings a pain to deal with for a while after you upgrade. I didn’t have any 32-bit apps I’m missing so I wasn’t affected by that. The one cool thing about it is Sidecar if you have an iPad and Apple Pencil to use as a drawing tablet, but I don’t.
- sudoankit 6y agoSame but instead of Air I’ll get the 13” ARM Pro with sufficient RAM and hopefully more ports. Mojave on my 13” MBP 2015 is still fantastic. Great OS, great keyboard, USB ports, MagSafe, etc.
- mpweiher 6y agoSame RAM, same ports.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoYep. Seems like the only difference is GPU cores.
- adrusi 6y agoAlso better thermal management.
- ajb92 6y ago> whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS. My money's on "Sequoia".
- doitLP 6y agoEither that or “Alcatraz”
- egypturnash 6y agoThey’ve had almost as many California places as they had big cats, so it might be time for a new theme soon.
- abakker 6y agoThe jailbreak jokes will be great with that one.
- FullyFunctional 6y ago32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.
- SloopJon 6y agoOne of my round tuit projects is to set up a Snow Leopard VM to run PowerPC apps. with Rosetta, and a Mojave VM to run 32-bit Intel apps.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoOut of curiosity, what apps are those?
- FullyFunctional 6y agoOf the top of my head: - software for a "smart pen" where the company went out of business - some label printing software - some Steam games - some games from GOG Even if I don't run these daily, I don't like to be cut off from my past.
- ViViDboarder 6y agoAh. I forgot there are so many games still only built for 32bit. Is there any kind of workaround using qemu?
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoNot OP, but non-subscription Adobe.
- thewebcount 6y agoFor what it's worth, it's pretty easy to have a separate Mojave partition that you boot to when you need to use one particular app. That's what I do.
- sbierwagen 6y ago
- igravious 6y ago> whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS. Next up has got to be "Bigger Sur", then "Biggest Sur" is up after, and then they'll finally be done.