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Using Apple devices in general seems like a total crap shoot to me nowadays because of the impossibility of down-grading the OS. Every "upgrade" comes with a c

by lisper 6y ago

Using Apple devices in general seems like a total crap shoot to me nowadays because of the impossibility of down-grading the OS. Every "upgrade" comes with a considerable risk that something that had been working will stop working, and if that happens, you are pretty much SOL.

fastball 6y ago
What? You can definitely downgrade to an earlier MacOS. It's not a one-click downgrade like the upgrade is, but I don't know of any OS with that feature.
- lisper 6y ago
  > You can definitely downgrade to an earlier MacOS. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. Going from Mavericks to Yosemite for example is one-way because it includes a non-backwards-compatible firmware update. Going to Catalina is also one-way because it changes the file system from HFS to AFS. And iOS is famously non-downgradable.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  > What? You can definitely downgrade to an earlier MacOS. Unless they got a brand-new M1-based Mac. Macs usually don't install versions of macOS prior to their launches.