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I religiously upgraded every machine up until this same release. I never had issues, and my tenure began at Tiger. Everything was smooth sailing – perhaps becau

I 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 ago
Problem 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 ago
  Mojave still receives regular updates.
thebigspacefuck 6y ago
Might 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.