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Well, this basically confirms my decision to not purchase a macbook for my next laptop.

• mschuster91 6y ago
  Why? As long as you're not getting the ARM ones, you can stick on 10.15 - which is something many will do anyway for at least a year until Apple irons out the worst bugs of BS. Only thing I'm still pissed about 10.15 is that Wine still can't run 32-bit apps.
  • tlburke 6y ago
    You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Then you get to make the choice of using an OS that's vulnerable to exploits and an OS with a gigantic backdoor in it.
    • miles 6y ago
      > You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Catalina should be supported for two more years: https://computing.cs.cmu.edu/desktop/os-lifecycle https://computing.cs.cmu.edu/desktop/os-lifecycle https://www.csun.edu/it/supported-operating-systems https://www.csun.edu/it/supported-operating-systems https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/imdzv4/endoflife_os_list/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/imdzv4/endoflife_...
      • tlburke 6y ago
        Ah excuse me for that. 2 years of additional lifespan is still painfully short for a deprecated OS. Even free OSes like Ubuntu LTS get more years of support than versions of macOS (Ubuntu LTS release cycle of 2 years minus 5 years of support = 3 years of additional support after deprecation).
    • jen729w 6y ago
      I have a 2010 Mini still running High Sierra (10.13) and it's getting patches.
      • justinclift 6y ago
        Didn't High Sierra officially stop getting patches when Big Sur was released?
        • jen729w 6y ago
          Could be, but given that that was yesterday I won’t have noticed yet.
  • icedchai 6y ago
    I'm still running 10.14 here, for that very reason (32-bit apps.)
  • hyakosm 6y ago
    You can run 32 bits apps with Crossover.
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