Ask HN: Is it safe to update to macOS Catalina (10.15.3)?

9 points by icodemuch 6 years ago | 11 comments

When Catalina first came out, HN was flooded with articles about how bad it was. Now, a few weeks later, is it safe to update my mac? I've backed up everything, but would still hate to have my personal laptop performing on a subpar level when I need it for photoshop, iterm2, xcode, firefox, etc.

Znafon 6 years ago |

We just got bite by a bug were Catalina would randomly delete some Wireguard tunnels. A temporary workaround to restore them has been published in the Wireguard client but Catalina doesn't feel stable at the moment.

actionowl 6 years ago |

It depends on what all you use, at least GPGTools Mail plugin and MacOS FUSE (At least SSHFS) still don't support Catalina.

slipwalker 6 years ago |

i am running the Catalina 10.15.1 both on a Macbook pro retina 13 inch early 2015 and an iMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch 2017. For java/kotlin/angular/node/typescript/flutter development and system admin tasks.

Both run a lot better than Mojave ever did.

thijsvandien 6 years ago | |

In what way? I only just upgraded to Mojave from Sierra, and consider it now usable enough, even though there are still obvious, stupid bugs. I would be surprised if Catalina had fewer of those already.

slipwalker 6 years ago | | |

Mojave security "enhancements" kept the imac's I/O ( even with a SSD ) crawling, with the beachball hanging even on the most trivial I/O operations.

gshdg 6 years ago |

Avoid it if you use Mail.app. Otherwise doesn’t seem too bad. Performance isn’t an issue.

frou_dh 6 years ago |

10.15.2 is not even released yet, never mind 10.15.3

chatmasta 6 years ago |

Curious if anyone is running it on a mid 2013 air?

jvvlimme 6 years ago | |

Yep, runs just fine. Except for some security settings I haven't noticed much difference with the older versions.

copperfitting 6 years ago |

I would rather prefer windows

tez12 6 years ago |

my recommendation is to wait until it will become stable, if you dont need any particular new behave.