Getting my first MacBook tomorrow

[Super Spartan]

It's going to arrive tomorrow, I don't wanna deal with any upgrades so I am planning on immediately booting it in recovery mode, erasing the disk then installing a fresh copy of Catalina right off the bat.

My only concern is I saw in another thread here named "Thinks that may brick your MacBook" where it mentions not to erase the HDD/SSD without disabling secure boot if the laptop has a T2 chip.

Well, mine does have a T2 chip so should I disable secure boot first before erasing the disk, install Catalina, then re-enable secure boot?

 

[Super Spartan]

So I received the MacBook Pro today.

I turned it on and immediately went into recovery mode, wiped the disk, then tried to install the latest OS but Catalina wasn't offered, I guess that was because I never activated it.

So I ended up reinstalling MacOS Mojave first which was the only choice it gave me when I clicked on reinstall OS.

After I logged in with my Apple ID and stuff, I got the update to Catalina.

I then wiped the disk again formatting in APFS and hit reinstall OS and bam, it was downloading Catalina, nothing better than a clean install because I see the people who have "upgraded" from Mojave to Catalina on the forum are having a myriad of issues so they ended up having to do a clean install.

PS: I didn't need to disable Secure Boot and it went fine.