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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
by 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 agoAh 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 agoI have a 2010 Mini still running High Sierra (10.13) and it's getting patches.
- justinclift 6y agoDidn't High Sierra officially stop getting patches when Big Sur was released?
- jen729w 6y agoCould be, but given that that was yesterday I won’t have noticed yet.