Should I upgrade to Catalina

[cuestakid]

My 2018 Mac Mini is still on Mojave. The initial reason I held back was because the Thunderbolt 3 RAID array was not compatible with Catalina. While it is now compatible, the only way to make it work is to disable the T2 Chip-essentially negating a lot of the security features. This Mini is on 24/7 and just shares my iTunes content and plex library. I connect to it via a remote access tool.

Given my set up is there any reason for me to upgrade?

 

[jpn]

My 2018 Mac Mini is still on Mojave. The initial reason I held back was because the Thunderbolt 3 RAID array was not compatible with Catalina. While it is now compatible, the only way to make it work is to disable the T2 Chip-essentially negating a lot of the security features. This Mini is on 24/7 and just shares my iTunes content and plex library. I connect to it via a remote access tool.

Given my set up is there any reason for me to upgrade?

while its only really being discussed/reviewed/analyzed in very thorough analyses of Catalina, what apple has started in earnest to do from Catalina is to use its obvious strength of controlling the hardware to more securely wall-off security threats, in unparalleled ways working with devices and inter-device control.

but that's why a lot of problems are happening (not enough development time spent before launching Catalina).
still in 10.15.2 a lot of bugs.
its hard to make a decision without knowing how you use yr mac.
Mail problems, Finder problems, Power system control systems. All these areas still have critical bugs even today.

my advice to you is to wait well into 2020 before updating, assuming that apple continues to provide security updates to Mojave.

 

[Plutonius]

My 2018 Mac Mini is still on Mojave. The initial reason I held back was because the Thunderbolt 3 RAID array was not compatible with Catalina. While it is now compatible, the only way to make it work is to disable the T2 Chip-essentially negating a lot of the security features. This Mini is on 24/7 and just shares my iTunes content and plex library. I connect to it via a remote access tool.

Given my set up is there any reason for me to upgrade?

If Mojave is working well for you, I would wait on Catalina.

 

[cuestakid]

while its only really being discussed/reviewed/analyzed in very thorough analyses of Catalina, what apple has started in earnest to do from Catalina is to use its obvious strength of controlling the hardware to more securely wall-off security threats, in unparalleled ways working with devices and inter-device control.

but that's why a lot of problems are happening (not enough development time spent before launching Catalina).
still in 10.15.2 a lot of bugs.
its hard to make a decision without knowing how you use yr mac.
Mail problems, Finder problems, Power system control systems. All these areas still have critical bugs even today.

my advice to you is to wait well into 2020 before updating, assuming that apple continues to provide security updates to Mojave.

If Mojave is working well for you, I would wait on Catalina.

The only other info I can provide is that any content downloaded from iTunes goes to this RAID device. I have some metadata editors, disk management and backup tools on the device. I don't edit photos, write docs, or consume content directly on it. I consume the content via the Plex server on the Mac and the iTunes TV Shows/Movies/Music on the RAID device.



Interestingly my 2015 MacBook Pro was upgraded and I have not noticed any major issues but I think the power and finder issues are enough for me to wait

 

[hieromonk]

Lol so much bull crap on these forum
I have been running beta Catalina and all of those apps you have mentioned like 4 months and none of those “critical “ things happened to me

I uses the iMac 2019 for Apple Arcade / Apple news + / mail / safari / steam / stock mostly just like a normal person