Am I the only person that doesn't have any significant issues with Catalina? I'll admit, some of the permissions-related pop-ups are a bit annoying, but overall it's been a rather stable macOS version for me (developer, working mostly in Xcode and JetBrains IDEs).
Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
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Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#12I use Unity3D and everytime there is a new macOS update, I always procrastinate it for a year at least. This year around, I was very tempted to update it, early last week. Looking at this feed, I ain't going to do it. I have an iOS app to publish & can't do anything stupid.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#13Also worth reading John Gruber's complaints, over and above bugs: > But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting…
There’s an important point to be made here about the gap between theoretical and practical security. Overly elaborate password policies (excessive complexity demands, passwords expiring, no reusing last five passwords) end up causing annoyed users to make bad decisions that compromise password security.
Similarly, an excess of popups doesn’t increase security. It annoys users to the point they stop thinking about individual security decisions.
There’s an important intersection of security research and HCI that doesn’t get discussed as much as it needs to be.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#14Am I the only person that doesn't have any significant issues with Catalina? I'll admit, some of the permissions-related pop-ups are a bit annoying, but overall it's been a rather stable macOS version for me (developer, working mostly in Xcode and JetBrains IDEs).
It's been completely fine for me. On both my personal and development machines.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#15Also worth reading John Gruber's complaints, over and above bugs: > But I don’t know a single expert Mac user who is not seriously annoyed by the heavy-handed security design of Catalina. Not one. Every single expert user I know is annoyed. That is a bad place for MacOS to be. MacOS 10.16 needs a serious course correction to fix this, and if 10.16 goes the opposite way — growing even more heavy-handed in restricting…
> there should be a single switch for expert users to toggle to effectively say “I trust all of the software on my Mac”.
As an "expert" software engineer, I completely trust absolutely zero software running on my computer, in my browser, or basically on any device anywhere. I begrudgingly put up with it all because there is no alternative. Adding friction is good because it will eventually push (force?) developers to use more modern, safer development patterns.
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#16The biggest issue I have with Mac upgrades is that for me, it doesn't cache the upgrade. My internet is weak, not as great in speed and bandwidth as US so it downloads 4gb and then fails. Then it starts from 0 sgain. I expected Apple of all companies to cache downloads. Frankly, it caches only the first 500MB. I do not know why. Any workarounds?
If you have another (24/7 powered-on) Mac in the household, it can act as a cache:
https://hashtagwifi.com/blog/apple-content-caching-and-you-s...
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#17I have heard enough horror stories about stability and security prompts that it’s the first macOS release I’ll probably skip. Can’t afford to lose a day or more of productivity to fiddling with my OS.
You do you, but the relentless flow of horror stories didn't stop me from upgrading and it was flawless for me. I'd recommend reading these critical pieces and seeing whether any of it actually applies to you.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#18Am I the only person that doesn't have any significant issues with Catalina? I'll admit, some of the permissions-related pop-ups are a bit annoying, but overall it's been a rather stable macOS version for me (developer, working mostly in Xcode and JetBrains IDEs).
No breaking bugs here.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#19The biggest issue I have with Mac upgrades is that for me, it doesn't cache the upgrade. My internet is weak, not as great in speed and bandwidth as US so it downloads 4gb and then fails. Then it starts from 0 sgain. I expected Apple of all companies to cache downloads. Frankly, it caches only the first 500MB. I do not know why. Any workarounds?
Frankly nowadays (on most systems) you need a decent connection. I would perhaps connect from another connection (if you have the opportunity) for the download itself.
If 25M people are eligible for this upgrade and it fails in the middle for only 1%, that is 1 Petabyte transferred in vain. Not to mention man hours wasted. Just to save a few lines of code.
Re: Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth (Part 2)
#20I've actually kept postponing upgrading to Catalina (I'm still on Mojave) because I want to keep iTunes. I have a lot of stuff there I don't really want scattered all over the place, and I always felt iTunes was underrated.
How are you going to solve this? I'm in a similar position, having several music apps I bought a while ago that won't work in Catalina. But I have to upgrade because it's my development machine. So far my plan is to upgrade my MacBook Pro to continue develop software, and leave my Mac Pro with Mojave to compose music. I wonder how others deal with this.
Similar. Current plan is to reluctantly upgrade my newer Mac mini for Xcode, and keep the old one for Illustrator CS6. A royal pain, though, especially because the old one is just that bit too slow.