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Hi @idandavid

That’s great to hear, I use my Mac Pro (Late 2013) for hobby/enthusiast level music production. I use a lot of 3rd party software and plugins which can often cause incompatibility with macOS updates, but are generally fine.

I’m looking forward to upgrading to macOS Big Sur from Mojave once the official release is out!
 
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I've had all Big Sur public betas on my MacBook Pro 16 since I don't use it for real work. From my experience so far, there weren't any bugs that prevented me from doing what I wanted which is mostly browse the net, listen to music etc. The bugs that were somewhat troublesome seem to have been resolved for me and the latest beta has been very good.

so you would say I could try it out now ? or wait til full release
 
Do you use your computer for work and to make a living?
If so, I think if you waited this long, just hold off for the final release and then some. I wouldn't upgrade the first second its out. You can always come here to read what others are saying.

If you don't use your computer to make a living then I think this beta has been good so far and would say you can upgrade to Big Sur. I don't know what Mac you have though. This could be different for every Mac and the programs and data you have on your computer may lead to a different experience than what I have.
 
I would say that we're only about 3ish weeks away from GM PB and then final release (depending on when the event for the Silicon Macs are, although they could just release it for when the new iPhones come anyway). So, wait it out.
 
Macbook not going to sleep when lid is open bug seems to be fixed on latest public beta. 😊
 
What mute bug?

What exactly is happening?🤔

Although touch bar shows that the computer is muted, audio could still play as normal. System sounds, notifications, etc all still go off periodically. And it's inconsistent. Sometimes it will mute properly system-wide, sometimes it will mute some things and not others, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. It's all very strange but documented and I'm not the only one having this issue.

 
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Do you use your computer for work and to make a living?
If so, I think if you waited this long, just hold off for the final release and then some. I wouldn't upgrade the first second its out. You can always come here to read what others are saying.

If you don't use your computer to make a living then I think this beta has been good so far and would say you can upgrade to Big Sur. I don't know what Mac you have though. This could be different for every Mac and the programs and data you have on your computer may lead to a different experience than what I have.


I have the MacBook Pro 2020 13" with 10th gen 16gb ram 1tb ssd ...from what I read maybe ill wait off 😂
 
Although touch bar shows that the computer is muted, audio could still play as normal. System sounds, notifications, etc all still go off periodically. And it's inconsistent. Sometimes it will mute properly system-wide, sometimes it will mute some things and not others, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. It's all very strange but documented and I'm not the only one having this issue.


Haven’t ran into that issue yet, looks like the only solution at the moment is to lower the volume all the way when you want to mute your MacBook.

Can see it being a pain constantly lowering and raising the volume, hopefully it’s fixed soon.
 
believe me, wait for it. I also installed the beta at 2020 MBP, and at this point I want to roll back to Mojave 😅

just on apple beta website and looks like a lot of steps to go back to non beta version and I only have this MacBook Pro and iPad Pro so I don't really have any other MacBook just in case this goes bad 😂
 
If I only had one or two drives, I would not run a beta. But I have ten drives in my NcMP and four of my SSDs are reserved for startup duty. Two of those are clones of each other running Catalina. I'm running Big Sur on another SSD, and if anything goes wrong it's a simple matter to go back to Catalina.

Lou
 
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I'm happy with Catalina!

I'm happy, no thrilled to death that you're happy
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Lou
 
When I run First Aid to check my internal disk in Recovery mode on macos Big Sur I get some errors in the log. This happens on every beta versions. When I do the same in Catalina no errors will occur.
 
There are still some bugs in Big Sur.
The biggest issue for me is blurry font in Messages app. I think it's caused by port from iOS.

messages has been on the mac for years, a descendant of imessage; it's not a 'port from IOS'; and it's not a universal issue.

is this the only app that happens with? perhaps try changing the font size in messages, then back to what you want...
 
messages has been on the mac for years, a descendant of imessage; it's not a 'port from IOS'; and it's not a universal issue.

I'm sure they said they replaced the old Mac version with one using Catalyst at WWDC this year. Which is what the OP means by it being a port from iOS.
 
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