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I wouldn’t recommend staying on Mojave as it no longer receives security updates from Apple. If you want long-term OS support then the Linux and Windows platforms are far better.
I tend to agree with that, however you can avoid all sorts of computer shenanigan's by using safe computing practices regardless of the OS.
 
I wouldn’t recommend staying on Mojave as it no longer receives security updates from Apple. If you want long-term OS support then the Linux and Windows platforms are far better.
Thanks for the unsolicited recommendation, without taking even a second to find out anything about my use case, and just assuming I'm speaking entirely out of ignorance.

Our macs are kept on an offline intranet. They run machines that cost as much as a nice house. They also run 32bit engineering and machining applications that cost about as much. They run windows, they run Linux, they run the last possible OS that Apple made that can do it all, which is Mojave, on the last possible hardware Apple made that can do it all, which was in 2019. Support? Like what, have a genius bar kid come out to the lab? lol
 
Next gonna be Ace Ventura, ditching Intel entirely. Like it was with Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard and PowerPC Macs.
 
Will Catalina stop working this fall? No it will still work.
Security updates are the issue. Usually with Apple lately, an OS only gets security updates for two years after it was replaced. Catalina crosses that threshold this fall, so it is a valid concern. I am also running a Mac stuck on Catalina.
 
That's the deal-breaker for Apple. There's a lot of Win-DOS developers using Macs with Win-DOS running in VMs.

That's what earns us money to pay for the premium kit.
I’m a dev, developing in C#, power shell and python.
Only using MacBook M1 Pro.

No issues here, when needed I have win11 arm in paralleles.
And if I need anything else my company that I’m working for has VMware infrastructure so I can just connect to a VDi
 
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Sweet. Now depending on how game is programmed, it would mean able to run under Metal 3 or not. Unless Apple stops changing their Metal every year breaking old stuff in the progress I don’t see AAA title flooding mac market. Metal API is not fully working on Windows just yet.
What "old" stuff has Metal 3 broken? I am assuming v1 and v2 of the Metal API is still supported for backward compatibility. So how is Apple upgrading the Metal API regularly a bigger deal for game devs than keeping up with directX/direct3D?
 
My 2019 iMac is still on Big Sur - so reluctant to upgrade when it's been rock solid.

Anyone else get the feeling your compatible intel iMac won't work as well when you jump to Ventura? Cue the conspiracy theories! #plannedobsolescence
My 2019 iMac is running Monterey just fine - actually more stable than Big Sur for me. YMMV
 
Monterey still has so many outlying unfixed issues, yet here we are today with a new OS invariably introducing even more of them.

Every year -- same thing -- on Mac, iPhone and iPad

They barely get done fixing all the issues and then largely start the clock all over again.
(and a lot of bugs never get fixed at all)

I really wish they'd stop with the forced annual software cycles
 
Here lies the owner of a fully loaded 1st gen Intel 16MBP.
sorry for my dark predictions, but can you remember that PPC….Intel gradient slide and Steve saying this won’t happen overnight, but years? It was less than two.. and from x86 Tiger, it was only one hybrid iteration of Mac OS X, Leopard. Snow Leopard was PPC ready in-lab, but they have killed it due to successful progress (business wise).
Steve also said there are more great PowerPC Macs in the pipeline.. and it was what? one minor speed bump of MacMini, nothing else if I remember correctly.

All these assurances are just to avoid panic, but in real, they will be done with x86 veeery soon. All I hope for with my Core i5 Mac is some security fixes.
 
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Wait, in the Spanish Apple website they say 2016 Macbook Pro is supported…!
 
It ... depends?

If serious security bugs are discovered in the future, it might not be safe to expose the system to a network.
There's no "if" about it, as long as you're talking about any OS written by humans.

The only way to avoid it is via obscurity. For some years now, DEC/Compaq/hp systems running (Open)VMS have been mighty secure.
 
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