I still love macOS but Catalina has been the buggiest beta and release that I can recall. When we saw betas of x.1 before there were even GMs/release candidates of x.0 we knew it was going to be rushed out the door.
Even after release it's still randomly losing files. Just yesterday my purchased music downloads just disappeared. No explanation (unless I trashed and emptied them in a fugue state). They were still showing as downloaded in the Music app, but when I tried to play them I got the "File missing. Locate?" dialog, so the Music app wasn't aware of this either. They weren't stored on iCloud Drive either, just the default local music folder, so it wasn't related to the iCloud Drive bug. This was a clean installation on a fresh disk, no third party system level junk, and after the unnumbered OS update they released a while ago.
There are quite a few other bugs too. macOS is still the better alternative to Windows, but the wow factor of "It just works!" is becoming rare and bug fatigue is creeping in.
Whoa, no. That is a huge code red for me as a creative. Especially in the music folder. I work at all crazy times of day and night, inspiration hits, and is often impossible to replace. Not alright.
That’s why as a creative you should be using a backup solution. With modern internet connections backing up is quick and efficient. File loss should be expected on the FS. Many things can and will go wrong one day.
I still use mine almost every single day. It's a beast, and has been very reliable. Keyboard is WAY nicer to type on than the current generation. It's a little thicker and heavier, and lacks USB-c ports, but it's still damn fine.
I am typing this from a late-2013 MBPr. It has been rock solid until Catalina. Now it occasionally reboots while its closed and there's something going on in the system settings that tells me I need to re-log in to some services, then errors out when I click on the button to proceed and do that.
I fully agree with the author, and I am also worried about how Apple treats its users. And I am also an abandoned Aperture user, with huge libraries full of organized albums with non-destructive edits. I still do not know what to do about that.
Having read most of the comments, I got the impression that you could correlate them with age. Younger people are all "Catalina works for me! Progress! Change is necessary! What are you whining about?!". Perhaps I can relate because I've been using computers for >25 years now, and I'd like to see a division between rapidly changing things (like my applications) and foundation-type stuff that I need to get work done (like computers and operating systems).
I don't fully agree, but the following really resonated
> Apple has more or less always said "Jump!" and users and developers have always been expected to reply, "How high?" That attitude, We know what’s best for you, was tolerable — at times even welcome — when it was crystal clear that Apple really knew what was best.
Aside from the bugs, which I'm sure will get resolved in updates, Catalina takes a lot more than it gives.
I'm in the same situation with Aperture. It's not only a problem because of the issue you describe with losing the product of my prior work, but it's not clear what the migration target would be. The most obvious alternative is Lightroom, but this would mean trading a tool I have been using happily for free for 7 years for a 20EUR/month subscription service I would have to maintain the rest of my digital life.
My current solution is just to keep a bootable Mojave volume around, but long term I don't know.
Incidentally, I am thinking about writing an Aperture export/migration tool. I want to at least preserve the album structures, ordering within albums, version grouping/selection and image metadata.
I thought about doing this as a commercial project, but it's likely I'm the only one who cares (I have a large archive of historical photos organized using Aperture).
One thing I've learned: from now on, I will organize my image archives using my own software. I am done with trusting any large company.
You can always just pirate Lightroom (LR Classic, that is—the non-cloud-dependent one). It’s not particularly difficult, and sidesteps the subscription lock-in nicely.
In my young ages I was hungry for new technology, learning and adapting the progress, experimenting.
Nowadays I am for something that works and can be used for what I need.
Apple is good in the first, and gives no f* about the second.
Their products - including hardware - is for the young.
I think I am going to accept that and 'adapt mindset' to this premise as an ultimate step of not 'resisting change'.
(I already gave up on the hardware btw)
Their products - including hardware - is for the young.
I don’t think that’s it.
Once upon a time a Rolex was a serious tool for professional pilots and divers but now it’s a status symbol. It still basically tells the time but no one buys it for that.
Short answer: I'm definitely not young—I started on an Apple II in high school.
I do keep my software current and pay attention to things. I lived through 68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel, so I know how this goes.
I've been running Catalina since the late betas and haven't experienced the issues others have, other than my old Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad not working with Catalina, which is kinda annoying, since I really like the extra keys, etc. instead of the Bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac.
Know what I did?
I submitted a bug report to Apple.
There's no doubt that Catalina (and iOS 13 for that matter) are more buggy than recent past upgrades, which is not good.
I don't think it's Apple not caring; I think they're trying to do a whole lot with overlapping groups. If the rumors are true and there's a 16-inch MacBook Pro about to come out and ARM Macs will likely become a thing in 2020, I suspect a lot of engineers are juggling multiple projects across multiple groups and this is the result.
I also switched to Zsh before I upgraded so I'd have my config all set before hand. So far, so good. And thank goodness for Homebrew and how quickly it had Catalina-compatible packages ready to go.
I doubt you could count me someone from the younger generation. My experience with computers started with DOS. I Have been Mac user since 2006. Catalina works fine for me.
I was also Aperture user. And then Lightroom user. And now I am Capture One user.
Yeah I'm a younger generation and I believe macOS and Apple's software in general has gotten worse and worse.
I've wasted hours this week wrestling with issues in Xcode 11 and the command line tools because of bugs in Apple's code.
The bluetooth on my MBP2015 constantly drops, requiring a full restart in order to work again. Apps run slow whenever I have multiple monitors attached.
And don't get me started on the MBP2018 hardware, that damn keyboard keeps sticking.
Ditto. Catalina is working fine for me too. Mac user since 2006, I think the first intel chips. It's definitely not a noticable change. The only such change was the upgrade to Snow Leopard. That was a 'wow' change. This is more like a 'meh' change. I haven't tried the iPad sharing thing yet, not too excited by that either.
What I have noticed is that Apple hardware is highly inconsistent these days. I think it's a function of the Retina displays. The non retina Macbook air with such an underpowered processor sesms to work better than the current Macbook air.
OTOH the Macbook pro is seemingly working great. The 1.4GHz entry model outclasses the older generations by leaps and bounds. I have also started appreciating the touch bar, despite being a heavy vim user. The one touch shortcuts for da y to day stuff like zoom sharing desktops etc are very welcome.
Just an aside, I also quit Lightroom because I don't want to be tied to a subscription. Since I have a Sony Camera, I am currently testing Capture One Express.
How does the Capture One Pro version work for you?
Author hasn't tried Catalina, and their biggest complaint appears to be that the email app allegedly has a new UI--but I don't think it does. Mail app looks the same in Catalina, doesn't it? I can't say I noticed any differences.
Either way, this is an extremely long blog post to say basically just "I don't like change, and I'm not willing to see change as a potential improvement to try to accept it".
I am the author, and I may be guilty of writing an extremely long blog post; but judging by your response, you didn't bother to read it that thoroughly. The new layout in Catalina's Mail.app is actually my smallest complaint.
I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine. I don't like change when it is haphazardly imposed on a yearly basis by a company which has clearly stopped caring about Mac OS as far as management is involved.
I used to like change more when it actually made me work better, when the advantages clearly outweighed the downsides, when progress and improvements were noticeable and thoughtfully implemented.
I read a few paragraphs, got the same impression, and closed it, because the author admitted they're using practically none of the Apple ecosystem and therefore have already discounted the overwhelming majority of the improvements in Catalina.
It's certainly disingenuous to have a clickbait headline "Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it's worth" when it's missing "as explained by someone who doesn't use music, photos, TV, reminders, notes, or really anything else from the Apple software ecosystem".
I don't think it's disingenuous when it's a personal blog, which comes with an inherent "for my particular use case".
The problem is when that context is stripped away by aggregation sites like this one where tons of articles we read are from publishers and the expectation might be that the author did some research, tried different things, and was trying to write from a more objective or all encompassing view point.
I have the same problem with articles where the title will read like it's going to be a regular news article but instead it's a 6000 word story on the authors journey to uncover the information and how it made them feel yadda yadda. Not really the publishers fault, I'm sure their reader base knows what to expect (I know I've learned to stop clicking links to The Atlantic), but ends up misleading the potential reader from elsewhere a bit.
When this happens I think the fault is with the aggregator not allowing or enforcing proper information labelling. Not the author being disingenuous.
macOS is a product on its own, especially if you come from the hardware pespective, wanting for instance a iMac Pro and seeing the OS that comes with it as a glorified hardware manager.
Is macOS Catalina the best OS for your machine ? Is it genuinely better than the precedent version ?
I couldn’t tell from the article if the author had actually tried Catalina. I have been running the beta since day one of the beta release and the only issue is that applications have to be signed or built locally.
Apple wants macOS to be a safe walled garden like iOS and Chromebooks. I am fine with this, but I also have a very nice Linux laptop to play with.
I expect organized crime and most governments to continue hacking activities so it makes sense having my Apple devices locked down as much as possible. I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding.
Hello! I am the author, and no, I haven't tried Catalina because, as I state at the very end of my article:
"Both my main Macs are really working flawlessly at the moment, and Catalina is beta-quality software that’s likely to give me headaches I don’t need right now. Who knows, maybe down the road I could acquire a cheap used Mac that can run Catalina (something like a 2014 Mac mini) and use it as a test machine. As things are now, I absolutely do not want Catalina to mess with my current setups and data."
I'll add — I'm in a position (work-wise) where I can't afford to risk Catalina messing with my current setups and data.
Can you give me the TLDR version of MacOS Catalina’s downsides? Apart from mail layout change of course. I tried to read your blog but it was too difficult to find the points you were making too much rant with actual points hidden here and there.
Personally for me this has been the smoothest upgrade ever! Literally no apps are broken and no data lost.
Unless you're going out of your way to run your browser in a container or dedicated VM on Linux, there are substantial risks associated with browsing the web in terms of exposing all of your information in /home, which might include ssh and pgp private keys, basically everything your user can access.
But we have a number of solutions for running things in containers if you just use them. Early on firejail was popular, these days I just run nspawn containers for browser instances and bind mount in some stuff for a shared Downloads directory etc.
I can't speak to how that compares to OSX as I've never used it, but it is worth noting that the security story on Linux can range from bad to somewhat OK depending on your setup.
Edit:
In responses people seem to be completely ignoring that I already stated above in my original comment that I can't speak to how it compares to OSX. I don't know what OSX is doing for application sandboxing defaults.
I can however speak with some authority on the Linux situation. And today, if you're running firefox/chrome as your regular user as installed by apt/yum etc, without any additional sandboxing, and that user has access to secrets like ssh/gpg private keys, you're being unnecessarily reckless. And unfortunately that is basically the default way browsers are run today on most distributions
This is a major reason why the Flatpak/GNOME people have been working so hard on portals and namespaces are an integral component of the runtime. It's not just about application distribution. They're trying to close a major security hole in desktop linux as it's often used today. They want applications like the browser run in its own namespaces with just the minimum of host filesystem paths bind mounted in.
There's absolutely no reason for your browser process to have the ability to access all of your private keys, just because they happen to be under the home directory it happens to have access to, full stop.
Countering a personal anecdote with another personal anecdote. Here's another: I've been using Catalina since release on multiple Macs and haven't had any problems. I'm also an extensive user of iCloud services, Photos and Drive are very important to me and if I had any issues with either I'd probably lose my mind.
Why would you try it? Some of us lose money when our machines go down. Apple is supposed to represent quality, but that hasn't happened in so long that if your machine is the machine you make money on, you wait to hear what other people are encountering.
My father feels the same, he initially started using apple because he felt his Windows machine was using too much of his time for bs. Now he just upgraded to Catalina and Photos stopped working with this Synology based library, even I, a computer nerd, have already spend an hour at the problem. We are about done. I feel that Windows 10 would be just fine for him (or maybe I can get him sold on Ubuntu). Where pictures are simply in folders and any backup program will just sync them anywhere.
My in laws are very happy on Ubuntu Mate, it looks like old Windows (after changing one setting), and the Pictures and the email app are simple and clean. It's all they do.
Photos is one reason I always end up back on windows. My photo library is windows explorer and the file system. It just works. And it’s not hidden in any weird opaque and fragile abstraction.
Every time I’ve used macOS (I’ve had three MacBooks and two iMacs) I have to fight them. And I’m not up for that.
Google Picasa for Mac (the desktop app, now discontinued), was great for that. Keep .jpgs in folders, and use picasa to search and browse on top of that. Seeing at it seems to be a 32bit app, I'll be holding on to Mojave for much longer than usual.
> Where pictures are simply in folders and any backup program will just sync them anywhere.
That's how I organize photos on Mac OS. You don't have to use the Photos app. Periodically I dump all the photos from my phone and other devices and sort them in folders by year (and sometimes sub-folders for vacations and other big events). I only use Photos to get at the pictures from my phone if I need to look at them before the dump.
I have this too, I planned to look into it this weekend to see if there is a fix. I have moved my photos library to my synology just before upgrade to Catalina, as well having a little one, your photos exponentially increase. When I want to sync now it says it syncing, 'finishes within 3 seconds' and didn't sync at all..
I did some research, officially Apple does not recommend or support any photo Libraries on a NAS. It has to be a local APFS or HFS+ disk. Insane. My father is now pulling his 120 GB library over wifi to a local disc to see if it can be fixed. They really want you in the Apple cloud. I thinking maybe use Synologies "Moments" but apps get less than 2 stars... Meanwhile over here in Ubuntu-land I have Shotwell sitting in a nice folder structure working perfectly, simple , easy to move to something else and easy to backup.
To be fair, Windows also has a Photos app that can suck in photos into a library that's hard to find, and breaks easily .. it's just that nobody uses it.
For what its worth, Catalina has made my 2019 run slightly smother and less buggy. This might be because it reset all the preferences or its just in my head. All my "pro" audio stuff seems to work and my Apogee Groove works like before. My usb hub network port/driver would fail/crash randomly on Mojave needing a reboot but this has not happened on Catalina.
Edit: And someone else replied, the DPI/font stuff seems to be fixed as it was driving me crazy in Mojave. The upgrade is worth a try for that alone.
I'm happy with it too. They just added Radeon RX 5700 XT drivers to the latest beta release, something I have been eagerly awaiting since the card got released.
How does it count as a transition if everything just breaks? Them giving you warning doesn't make it a transition, it's just an EOL with advanced notice. A transition implies that you're moving from one working state to another, or replacing the old thing with a new one. How am I supposed to replace unmaintained/old software when there's no new 64-bit, notarized version of it?
I do not even get the transitioning part within this context. If you are pretty sure that the software you are using will not work on Catalina, then what significance does transitioning have? Having more time saying your goodbyes to your old games (in this case), or what? 32-bit applications will not magically turn into 64-bit ones.
In any case, I think it was a silly decision to "force" the customer to pick between old vs new software, but I am sure they can afford it. People will probably forgive them for it, and then completely forget about it. New users in the future probably will not even have anything to forget (or forgive), unless they want to run "really old" software, in which case people will just boo on them, and say "times change, technologies change, you gotta adapt, man" and the like which seems to be the case today with respective to both old software and hardware.
By the time Classic and Rosetta were retired I didn't miss them because everything I cared about had gotten upgraded.
This is not true of my 32 bit apps.
For some reason people were still releasing 32 bit apps as late as this year. Maybe it was because Apple didn't warn users about this until Mojave was released, which was barely a year ago.
Same here. It’s pretty shameful how the richest company on the planet cannot be bothered to spend a little money on supporting backward compatibility, while everybody else does just fine. Even not-for-profit Linux projects do. This decision simply cannot be justified.
It’s extremely disappointing. Apple just ensured my next machine will run Windows.
I've upgraded to Catalina on my 2015 MacBook Pro the day it released (didn't run the betas), and I haven't experienced any problems.
I mostly use it for development, everything still works.
My only annoyance so far has been SideCar, it just never works the first time, I have to switch from second display to mirror, then back to second display to make it work.
Could you double-check if it's really a 2015 and if it's early or something else, what cpu? My early 2015 shows error for Sidecar/not enabled and supposedly requires at least a Skylake CPU.
EDIT: my Q was more likely to woutr_be, where it was enabled..
They are, the first one is referring to the Catalina upgrade in general, where I haven't experienced any problems, either with the OS, or the existing software I use.
The second one is specifically referring to SideCar as an individual feature.
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Even after release it's still randomly losing files. Just yesterday my purchased music downloads just disappeared. No explanation (unless I trashed and emptied them in a fugue state). They were still showing as downloaded in the Music app, but when I tried to play them I got the "File missing. Locate?" dialog, so the Music app wasn't aware of this either. They weren't stored on iCloud Drive either, just the default local music folder, so it wasn't related to the iCloud Drive bug. This was a clean installation on a fresh disk, no third party system level junk, and after the unnumbered OS update they released a while ago.
There are quite a few other bugs too. macOS is still the better alternative to Windows, but the wow factor of "It just works!" is becoming rare and bug fatigue is creeping in.
Whoa, no. That is a huge code red for me as a creative. Especially in the music folder. I work at all crazy times of day and night, inspiration hits, and is often impossible to replace. Not alright.
Seems like it's chaos everywhere. Maybe a conspiracy by Big Backup.
[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+update+deleted+docum...
Or I did indeed delete them myself but can’t recall. I had no reason to.
So has my 2013 MBPr at home.
I still use mine almost every single day. It's a beast, and has been very reliable. Keyboard is WAY nicer to type on than the current generation. It's a little thicker and heavier, and lacks USB-c ports, but it's still damn fine.
Windows 10 vanilla is probably pretty nice.
[edited to clarify the source of the problem]
Not up to quite the usual quality, definitely.
Which operating system? This isn't about comparing hardware.
I'm on the latest MBPr and I love it; the problems are coming from Catalina.
> it is still the better alternative to Windows
I’m not sure what kind of Stockholm-syndrome it takes to put these two sentences in the same post.
This is just crazy.
Having read most of the comments, I got the impression that you could correlate them with age. Younger people are all "Catalina works for me! Progress! Change is necessary! What are you whining about?!". Perhaps I can relate because I've been using computers for >25 years now, and I'd like to see a division between rapidly changing things (like my applications) and foundation-type stuff that I need to get work done (like computers and operating systems).
> Apple has more or less always said "Jump!" and users and developers have always been expected to reply, "How high?" That attitude, We know what’s best for you, was tolerable — at times even welcome — when it was crystal clear that Apple really knew what was best.
Aside from the bugs, which I'm sure will get resolved in updates, Catalina takes a lot more than it gives.
My current solution is just to keep a bootable Mojave volume around, but long term I don't know.
I thought about doing this as a commercial project, but it's likely I'm the only one who cares (I have a large archive of historical photos organized using Aperture).
One thing I've learned: from now on, I will organize my image archives using my own software. I am done with trusting any large company.
I don’t think that’s it.
Once upon a time a Rolex was a serious tool for professional pilots and divers but now it’s a status symbol. It still basically tells the time but no one buys it for that.
Once upon a time a Mac...
Short answer: I'm definitely not young—I started on an Apple II in high school.
I do keep my software current and pay attention to things. I lived through 68000 -> PowerPC -> Intel, so I know how this goes.
I've been running Catalina since the late betas and haven't experienced the issues others have, other than my old Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad not working with Catalina, which is kinda annoying, since I really like the extra keys, etc. instead of the Bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac.
Know what I did?
I submitted a bug report to Apple.
There's no doubt that Catalina (and iOS 13 for that matter) are more buggy than recent past upgrades, which is not good.
I don't think it's Apple not caring; I think they're trying to do a whole lot with overlapping groups. If the rumors are true and there's a 16-inch MacBook Pro about to come out and ARM Macs will likely become a thing in 2020, I suspect a lot of engineers are juggling multiple projects across multiple groups and this is the result.
I also switched to Zsh before I upgraded so I'd have my config all set before hand. So far, so good. And thank goodness for Homebrew and how quickly it had Catalina-compatible packages ready to go.
I've wasted hours this week wrestling with issues in Xcode 11 and the command line tools because of bugs in Apple's code.
The bluetooth on my MBP2015 constantly drops, requiring a full restart in order to work again. Apps run slow whenever I have multiple monitors attached.
And don't get me started on the MBP2018 hardware, that damn keyboard keeps sticking.
I am not impressed with Apple's recent offerings.
What I have noticed is that Apple hardware is highly inconsistent these days. I think it's a function of the Retina displays. The non retina Macbook air with such an underpowered processor sesms to work better than the current Macbook air.
OTOH the Macbook pro is seemingly working great. The 1.4GHz entry model outclasses the older generations by leaps and bounds. I have also started appreciating the touch bar, despite being a heavy vim user. The one touch shortcuts for da y to day stuff like zoom sharing desktops etc are very welcome.
How does the Capture One Pro version work for you?
Either way, this is an extremely long blog post to say basically just "I don't like change, and I'm not willing to see change as a potential improvement to try to accept it".
I don't like change when it unnecessarily breaks things that used to work just fine. I don't like change when it is haphazardly imposed on a yearly basis by a company which has clearly stopped caring about Mac OS as far as management is involved.
I used to like change more when it actually made me work better, when the advantages clearly outweighed the downsides, when progress and improvements were noticeable and thoughtfully implemented.
But hey, that's me.
In all seriousness, older people are more opposed to UI and other types of change.
It's certainly disingenuous to have a clickbait headline "Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it's worth" when it's missing "as explained by someone who doesn't use music, photos, TV, reminders, notes, or really anything else from the Apple software ecosystem".
The problem is when that context is stripped away by aggregation sites like this one where tons of articles we read are from publishers and the expectation might be that the author did some research, tried different things, and was trying to write from a more objective or all encompassing view point.
I have the same problem with articles where the title will read like it's going to be a regular news article but instead it's a 6000 word story on the authors journey to uncover the information and how it made them feel yadda yadda. Not really the publishers fault, I'm sure their reader base knows what to expect (I know I've learned to stop clicking links to The Atlantic), but ends up misleading the potential reader from elsewhere a bit.
When this happens I think the fault is with the aggregator not allowing or enforcing proper information labelling. Not the author being disingenuous.
macOS is a product on its own, especially if you come from the hardware pespective, wanting for instance a iMac Pro and seeing the OS that comes with it as a glorified hardware manager.
Is macOS Catalina the best OS for your machine ? Is it genuinely better than the precedent version ?
That's a question worth pondering.
Apple wants macOS to be a safe walled garden like iOS and Chromebooks. I am fine with this, but I also have a very nice Linux laptop to play with.
I expect organized crime and most governments to continue hacking activities so it makes sense having my Apple devices locked down as much as possible. I avoid arbitrary web browsing on my Linux laptop and just use it for coding.
"Both my main Macs are really working flawlessly at the moment, and Catalina is beta-quality software that’s likely to give me headaches I don’t need right now. Who knows, maybe down the road I could acquire a cheap used Mac that can run Catalina (something like a 2014 Mac mini) and use it as a test machine. As things are now, I absolutely do not want Catalina to mess with my current setups and data."
I'll add — I'm in a position (work-wise) where I can't afford to risk Catalina messing with my current setups and data.
Personally for me this has been the smoothest upgrade ever! Literally no apps are broken and no data lost.
Edit: typos and clarified that I read the blog.
What makes web browsers less secure on Linux than on macOS?
But we have a number of solutions for running things in containers if you just use them. Early on firejail was popular, these days I just run nspawn containers for browser instances and bind mount in some stuff for a shared Downloads directory etc.
I can't speak to how that compares to OSX as I've never used it, but it is worth noting that the security story on Linux can range from bad to somewhat OK depending on your setup.
Edit:
In responses people seem to be completely ignoring that I already stated above in my original comment that I can't speak to how it compares to OSX. I don't know what OSX is doing for application sandboxing defaults.
I can however speak with some authority on the Linux situation. And today, if you're running firefox/chrome as your regular user as installed by apt/yum etc, without any additional sandboxing, and that user has access to secrets like ssh/gpg private keys, you're being unnecessarily reckless. And unfortunately that is basically the default way browsers are run today on most distributions
This is a major reason why the Flatpak/GNOME people have been working so hard on portals and namespaces are an integral component of the runtime. It's not just about application distribution. They're trying to close a major security hole in desktop linux as it's often used today. They want applications like the browser run in its own namespaces with just the minimum of host filesystem paths bind mounted in.
There's absolutely no reason for your browser process to have the ability to access all of your private keys, just because they happen to be under the home directory it happens to have access to, full stop.
Thanks for being my beta tester!
My in laws are very happy on Ubuntu Mate, it looks like old Windows (after changing one setting), and the Pictures and the email app are simple and clean. It's all they do.
Every time I’ve used macOS (I’ve had three MacBooks and two iMacs) I have to fight them. And I’m not up for that.
That's how I organize photos on Mac OS. You don't have to use the Photos app. Periodically I dump all the photos from my phone and other devices and sort them in folders by year (and sometimes sub-folders for vacations and other big events). I only use Photos to get at the pictures from my phone if I need to look at them before the dump.
Generally slower to browse and open previews.
I have this too, I planned to look into it this weekend to see if there is a fix. I have moved my photos library to my synology just before upgrade to Catalina, as well having a little one, your photos exponentially increase. When I want to sync now it says it syncing, 'finishes within 3 seconds' and didn't sync at all..
(The Metro one, not the photo viewer in explorer)
Edit: And someone else replied, the DPI/font stuff seems to be fixed as it was driving me crazy in Mojave. The upgrade is worth a try for that alone.
[1] https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2019/9/...
Apple orchestrated a much smoother transition from OS 9 to OS X and RISC to x84 than from 32bit to 64bit.
During that entire decade, Apple issued steadily-increasing warnings to users that eventually, the 32-bit support would cease.
Seems like a smooth transition to me.
In any case, I think it was a silly decision to "force" the customer to pick between old vs new software, but I am sure they can afford it. People will probably forgive them for it, and then completely forget about it. New users in the future probably will not even have anything to forget (or forgive), unless they want to run "really old" software, in which case people will just boo on them, and say "times change, technologies change, you gotta adapt, man" and the like which seems to be the case today with respective to both old software and hardware.
This is not true of my 32 bit apps.
For some reason people were still releasing 32 bit apps as late as this year. Maybe it was because Apple didn't warn users about this until Mojave was released, which was barely a year ago.
Did they?
I only saw warnings in Mojave.
There was a whole machine architecture change, and most people didn't even notice.
It’s extremely disappointing. Apple just ensured my next machine will run Windows.
Same here. Counter Strike Source. Shame, Valve!
I mostly use it for development, everything still works.
My only annoyance so far has been SideCar, it just never works the first time, I have to switch from second display to mirror, then back to second display to make it work.
https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT210380#systemrequirements
I use a 2015 MBP too, so I'm glad to hear it does work and thanks for the workaround.
Once it works, it's actually really great, I mainly use it for my terminal and browser debug tools. It's nice to have some extra space.
EDIT: my Q was more likely to woutr_be, where it was enabled..
Other than that, it’s been pretty good. Battery life improvement, seems faster, etc.
> it just never works the first time
Make up your mind. These two statements are not compatible.
The second one is specifically referring to SideCar as an individual feature.