Can the public beta be considered for daily use?

[thingstoponder]

It was much more desirable to get the betas during the Tiger & Leopard days, as Apple had some awesome groundbreaking features they added during new releases. Now not so much.

Tends to happen with a mature desktop operating system...

Everytime they change too much with macOS people whine anyways. Not much they can do to win here.

 

[mentaluproar]

In some cases, yes, you can use it as a daily diver, but it will be as unstable as a cheap android phone.

 

[torana355]

On top of that I have APFS and I'm unable to sign into the Mac App Store to download apps.

Same here lol.

 

[K4LK]

Hello guys! I want some oppinions from you...is High Sierra stable enought for daily use or should I stick with Sierra?
I know it s a beta and bugs appear and also I have a secondary machine running Windows

I would stay on Sierra until the third or fourth beta. High Sierra was a train wreck for me. Sluggishness, kernel panics. I am back on Sierra and have done some housekeeping waiting for a beta later in July.

 

[darkgoob]

Hello guys! I want some oppinions from you...is High Sierra stable enought for daily use or should I stick with Sierra?
I know it s a beta and bugs appear and also I have a secondary machine running Windows

 

[throAU]

It was much more desirable to get the betas during the Tiger & Leopard days, as Apple had some awesome groundbreaking features they added during new releases. Now not so much.

I'd suggest this is more due to macOS now being "good enough", whereas back in the Tiger and Leopard days it had a lot of annoying things that needed to be fixed.

Most of the stuff coming in High Sierra is under the covers stuff that will not have much direct impact to the typical end user.

However, even Mountain Lion and Mavericks had big changes that fixed or significantly improved end user experience vs. the previous versions.

 

[saudor]

Why do macOS updates break things so much and that apps even have to be updated for the new OS each and every time. High sierra looks more like an incremental update too.

I've been using alot of old windows apps that's been abandoned and run fine under 10. Heck apps from 1998 still work good.

 

[lemonkid]

Yes you can install the beta for daily use. I had the pleasure to install it on an external drive and I was happily surprised to see that after an attempt to force the drive into the new Apple File system I succeeded! My ordinary USB hard disc started spinning and my computer started to start up.

It took a while and in the meantime I thought to do something else. I ironed all my cloths. I filled up a new load into my washing machine. I went shopping and cleaning my house and in the evening my computer finely showed some more activity. It asked for my network connections. Then I cooked dinner and washed the dishes and.... yes! MacOs High Sierra popped up! So you can fill your day with all your daily activities and do all kind of useful things while High on Sierra.

Certainly recommended!

 

[stooovie]

No.

 

[onepoint]

IMO no. Installed on a mid-2011 MacBook Air. Could not enable Location Services, could not log in to iMessage ("unknown error occurred", and received at least a dozen iCloud-related login requests/errors daily. The core OS seemed to work alright, but lots of convenience missing.