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I have not even upgraded to Catalina yet, fearing all the breaking stuff I've heard of on HN.

I'm just so frustrated about upgrade process, 90% of the time it won't work first time and will break my Windows partition in some way. Why can't it be like upgrading bunch of packages with `pacman -Syu`...

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Catalina's okay. I have a work Mac that came with it and it only kernel panics about once a week. Which is pretty good for Apple these days.

I still have a bunch of Macs at home running El Capitan and Sierra because they work and because I don't have two weeks to screw around moving each one over to Catalina. When they die I'll probably just move the whole house over to Linux because Apple has so completely lost the plot on what personal computing means.

> kernel panics about once a week > Which is pretty good for Apple these days.

sad and funny feelings at the same time :)

My old macbook air (2011) is on high sierra, I'm still working on it and it's perfect!

Catalina is quite stable at this point. You do lose support for 32-bit apps, but at this point that is mostly games.

I see, thanks. I don't recall using any 32bit programs recently so perhaps I should give it a try

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