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Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Post by mark_l_watson »

I couldn’t tell from the article if the author had actually tried Catalina. I have been running the beta since day one of the beta release and the only issue is that applications have to be signed or built locally.

Apple wants macOS to be a safe walled garden like iOS and Chromebooks. I am fine with this, but I also have a very nice Linux laptop to play with.

I expect organized crime and most governments to continue hacking activities so it makes sense having my Apple devices locked down as much as possible. I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding.

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Post by asperous »

"why mess with Mail’s classic layout? It’s been my preferred layout since Mac OS X 10.0, and that type of layout has basically been the one I have used since I started using email more than twenty years ago"

This seems to be the heart of the post. I see the value in stable, unchanging things, but I also have to believe the designers at Apple are trying to make things better, and I think that is honorable.

Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Post by prepend »

I’m always wary of MacOS upgrades from when Snow Leopard made my Warcraft and Age of Empires stop working.

Ultimately, I find it best to just suck it up and upgrade and use virtualization to run specific stuff.

Mac is the easiest for me to have a daily driver browser while also being useful for most dev and basic Unix user tasks.

Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Post by ggm »

I did upgrade. A small number of apps I depend on work fine. A larger number of homebrew dependencies work fine. They played with DPI scaling again, it works fine.

They fucked up USB device reattach and my dell dock is a hassle in clamshell mode, which is a multi time per day (sleep and plugin unplug) royal pain in the ass.

Tl;dr is no different to any recent upgrade if you live in a terminal to other hosts.

Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Post by dwighttk »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #3

I couldn’t tell from the article if the author had actually tried Catalina. I have been running the beta since day one of the beta release and the only issue is that applications have to be signed or built locally. Apple wants macOS to be a safe walled garden like iOS and Chromebooks. I am fine with this, but I also have a very nice Linux laptop to play with. I expect organized crime and most governments to continue…

Seems like he hasn't... just read about problems.

Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth

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Post by ladzoppelin »

For what its worth, Catalina has made my 2019 run slightly smother and less buggy. This might be because it reset all the preferences or its just in my head. All my "pro" audio stuff seems to work and my Apogee Groove works like before. My usb hub network port/driver would fail/crash randomly on Mojave needing a reboot but this has not happened on Catalina.

Edit: And someone else replied, the DPI/font stuff seems to be fixed as it was driving me crazy in Mojave. The upgrade is worth a try for that alone.

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