Yosemite 10.10.5 - TO High Sierra? Yes/no? Opinions?

[jwolf6589]

I wouldn't advice to upgrade to High Sierra at this moment. Too many bugs. The advantages of Sierra and El Capitan vs Yosemite is that they get security updates. However there can be compatibility problems with older software. My printer Canon 540 Pixma doesn't work anymore, I can't save as reduced size in Acrobat Pro (unless i save the file on an usb stick) and under Sierra I can't open using Office 2011 some old complex Word documents with many graphics and equations and FileMaker Pro 10 quits unexpectedly. Parallels 11 luckily runs on 10.11 and 10.12. I don't want to upgrade because for 6 cores it's too expensive.

I run High Sierra and I suggest an upgrade. High Sierra runs faster and launches apps quicker than the previous Mac OS, especially with those running conventional hard drives.

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Sam 5281, I suggest that you read the many posts in this forum about complaints of High Sierra: slow boot, slow write speeds, problems with firmware update, compatibility problems or problems to get back to HFS+ if APFS causes too much trouble. And if you decide to update anyway - some users seem to be happy with High Sierra - be sure that you have a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of your system in case it goes wrong.
But personally I am not convinced to upgrade at this moment, and I am especially worried about issues from the nVidia webdriver that I need for my Geforce 980.

 

[EugW]

Sam 5281, I suggest that you read the many posts in this forum about complaints of High Sierra: slow boot, slow write speeds, problems with firmware update, compatibility problems or problems to get back to HFS+ if APFS causes too much trouble. And if you decide to update anyway - some users seem to be happy with High Sierra - be sure that you have a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of your system in case it goes wrong.
But personally I am not convinced to upgrade at this moment, and I am especially worried about issues from the nVidia webdriver that I need for my Geforce 980.

I have 5 Macs on High Sierra, two with APFS. Works fine for me.

 

[MrAverigeUser]

Sam 5281, I suggest that you read the many posts in this forum about complaints of High Sierra: slow boot, slow write speeds, problems with firmware update, compatibility problems or problems to get back to HFS+ if APFS causes too much trouble. And if you decide to update anyway - some users seem to be happy with High Sierra - be sure that you have a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of your system in case it goes wrong.
But personally I am not convinced to upgrade at this moment, and I am especially worried about issues from the nVidia webdriver that I need for my Geforce 980.

You should upgrade to CCC 5 before and do a new update before switching to High SIerra...

the developer explains why this gives you more security:

https://bombich.com/blog

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Even if I won't use APFS? I succeeded installing HS on a hard disk and I consider cloning it to an SSD.