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gustavopi

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Oct 29, 2008
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A lot of things happening, let's see: Apple moving from Intel to Arm, the end of "X" system series, and a Catalina hack to bring more Macs to this pure 64 bit system with a lot of glitches. I was planning some classes of Rust, but now I will have to learn about all this situation and what to do with may old Macs...

Let me explain, the Catalina hack, Mojave hack and so on keep a lot of macs working and capable of to run what we build in our newer machines. Before I noticed about this possibility, I was encouraging people to migrate to Catalina. Other people told me to forget about 32 bit world in order to simplify our software world - everybody, or as many as possible, in the 64 bit world, among with Windows 10 and Linux distributions. It was confused enough. Now we have a whole new system and a new hardware ahead, and I ask myself, worth to forget about older system that works better (case of Mojave) and a wider range of apps?

Based on other experiences, my answer is no! I will seriously think about go back to Mojave. I don't know anybody happy with Catalina, thought my old 2012 MacBook Pro is the best case of successful upgrade - everyone else I know is complaining about Catalina! I must admit is an unstable system, I had a lot of kernel panic myself (never had a single one with Mojave), my Mac is slow in general... well the is another story, but reminds me when I did upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion and give up of Mac OS in my old Mac Mini that have a Debian running today, and running fine.

But is a serious decision, I am developing with Unity and using new Adobe suite, how is gonna be? I would like to hear the opinion of this community about. In one side, to keep it updated is a good practice, in other side, I can put a hacked/original Mojave in all my macs and will have a wider community (since about 2006)... Also, I know very few about macOS 11, it seems is still Unix like and have a lot of new stuff with new design... is there something really new?
 
Why make a big deal of it? Just have both. I have a Mojave as well as a Big Sur install. Frankly Big Sur is super duper stable for a first beta, but you can stay with Mojave for daily use and keep Big Sur for making sure your software works well on both
 
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Why make a big deal of it? Just have both. I have a Mojave as well as a Big Sur install. Frankly Big Sur is super duper stable for a first beta, but you can stay with Mojave for daily use and keep Big Sur for making sure your software works well on both
Well, in my heart I am enjoying the idea of a real new OS, even still Unix like, and the end of Intel virtual monopoly with Apple bidding in it's own homemade weapons! But being reasonable, I have now Windows 10 and Catalina in my macbook but heaving to reboot it to run apps natively take time. I now have both in one SSD but Catalina take a long time to boot - twice as Mojave - and Windows got that annoying updates when you decide to reboot (don't turn off etc.. screen). Big Sur won't run in this macbook (my own), I hope this reality changes, the combination Mojave / Big Sur seems good enough.

I have Windows 7 in a VirtualBox running good with many apps, bot not games :( maybe I will update it to 10 and forget about those games. Frankly, in this scenario, Windows is becoming a dinosaur!
 
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