Which OS for my 2017 Air?

[AMSOS]

Mojave works fine on my Air (2017, 1.8 GHz i5) but I noticed that the wiki page says support will end in December 2021.

My Air is a little over a year old, and I feel I could keep using it for the next 2-3 years, and get my next computer depending on how things work out with the shift to ARM.

I am also seeing some mixed reactions to Big Sur, so I feel shifting to Catalina is the sensible choice. That way I'll have a fully supported OS till I sell the Air.

However, I've heard Catalina was not received well. Does it continue to be buggy?

What are my options if I want to keep using the Air with the most bug-free OS over the next 2-3 years?

Thanks!

 

[pldelisle]

No problem with Catalina since 10.15.3.

Your Mac is supported in macOS 11.0. I would expect support on 11.1 too.

My girlfriend's Air 2014 run perfectly well on Catalina.

 

[AMSOS]

Thanks. That's reassuring. I've read quite a bit about people being quite unhappy with Catalina.

So, if the latest version of Catalina is fine, then I might as well get to that and use it over the next few years. That is, in case, Big Sur doesn't work out well.

 

[pldelisle]

Thanks. That's reassuring. I've read quite a bit about people being quite unhappy with Catalina.

So, if the latest version of Catalina is fine, then I might as well get to that and use it over the next few years. That is, in case, Big Sur doesn't work out well.

Just like any previous Apple OS, Big Sur will have its bugs until version .2 or .3 and then will be fine after that. But Since Apple reviewed its QA with the fail of Catalina and iOS13 it might be running fine a lot earlier.

And for me, Catalina is running perfectly.

 

[AMSOS]

Just like any previous Apple OS, Big Sur will have its bugs until version .2 or .3 and then will be fine after that. But Since Apple reviewed its QA with the fail of Catalina and iOS13 it might be running fine a lot earlier.

And for me, Catalina is running perfectly.

What exactly went so wrong with Catalina that had so many people riled up?
iOS 13 is the first time I felt "it just works," and "Apple is so simple to use," are marketing gimmicks.
It's not just that 13 is buggy. I can live with that. Restarting the phone always works. But I can clearly see so many things are wrong with the design. It's obvious that there's a lot of unnecessary complexity that has crept in. Simplifying it will need a lot of work. Will Apple do it? I don't know.