Too late to teach an old dog new tricks such as ditching Apple?Sooner or later, hopefully sooner, Apple may see a drop in sales due to this Catalina mess getting publicity, and do something about it.
I've been watching these forums long enough to never having a thought about touching Catalina.
Lots of naysayers will say why not upgrade, and move along with progress.
Well, have fun you guys, sweating with your fixes.
Mojave does all I really need smoothly and safely, and I don't have to waste time and effort coping with Apple's failed QC, and the neat Catalina "new things".
My huge iTunes and Photo libraries are safe and everything works just fine.
The forums will tell me when it might be safe to upgrade.
36 years with Apple have taught patience and skepticism since Jobs' ideas and quality went away.
Are there any good things about Catalina at all? Seems to be constant problems for people.
I remember not being impressed by the keynote part as well.
I thought that fixed it for me until I put my external SSD with a thunderbolt to USB-C adapter, and next day it happened again. Power nap works only with no external devices connected for meI had this problems also on my MBP15 2018 - deactivating power nab helped to get rid of the crashes during sleep ☺
I've had a similar issue with an external monitor. Maybe 1 in 20 times the Mac KPs, but other times it will not connect to an external monitor until it's rebooted.
I have all my family on the latest version of Mojave. What is annoying is how hard Apple is pushing Catalina - ie - in the form of an 'update' in system preferences where you can not clear the notification, rather than a new OS in the Apps store which it was previously shown as. Have had several clients accidentally upgrade to Catalina, despite being told not to, due to the way that Apple is pushing this update.
I have experimenting multiples crashes more specifically on Keynote 12.0 and Mac OS 10.15.4[automerge]1586188554[/automerge]
I've had issues with the browser taking a while to respond. Not a huge deal. Just annoying.
I need to upgrade my two old 27" 2012 iMacs to the latest version, but the reliable old crocs on Mojave will have to do until I can buy a new one with an OS that works, maybe never. My families' 6 iPads and five iPods all working fine with Mojave and IOS/iPad OS 13.3 and staying there for now. No more new Apple hardware unless the QC situation gets fixed.Too late to teach an old dog new tricks such as ditching Apple?![]()
Are there any good things about Catalina at all? Seems to be constant problems for people.
I remember not being impressed by the keynote part as well.
if you don’t do fresh install of MacOS, it may help to check /System/Library/Extensions/ maybe you got there some old kexts. Catalina keeps locking down system and some old apps are not used to it.Yesterday I did something I haven't done in 15 years of using macOS, having used every major release and patch release. I've downgraded my MBA '13 to Mojave. It became unusable with Catalina. The process sucks, I'm still reinstalling and configuring stuff but I guess it's worth it. Since 10.15.4 it couldn't even wakeup without crashing, last week I got a full system freeze when I was just editing a document and this weekend I had a kernel panic. SSD is fine, I've ran memtest for hours, there nothing wrong with this Macbook. I've been running 10.15 since it came out and it's by far the worst macOS release ever. Lion and Yosemite were heaven compared to Catalina.