Catalina is (still) a mess

[airlied]

After 7 beta builds, and after many clean reinstallations, I still CAN'T

->get iCloud synced with no issues. Every beta brings different type of chaos into iCloud folder.

->get anything updated from Mac App Store. Every App I own shows a cloud icon instead of 'open' or 'update' button.

->get SideCar working properly.

->let Finder remember my view options. This issue has been bothering me since many years ago (like from 10.7 Lion). But Catalina makes it worse. Finder keep forgetting the settings of each folder such as application folder, system folder, Trash, and iCloud folder.

->see other device's open tabs from safari. The tabs shown is outdated (like many weeks ago), and when I click on it safari just opens a blank page.

->run any CPU intensive tasks without Kernel_tasks kicked in then took over all CPU powers. I know what kernel task is and what it supposed to do. But I didn't have any issues doing the same stuffs on Mojave.

->Backup into AirPort Time Capsule. My Mac Mini (late 2012, Mojave) can identify and backup itself to Time Capsule with zero issues, smooth like butter. But mac macbook pro can't even find the path of the disk in Time Capsule.

 

[haralds]

You might want to try a clean install on another Volume and migrate.

 

[Jaekae]

yearly OSes give plenty bugs. they should do like microsoft and stay many years making their versions better instead of writing new versions every year that add more and more bugs

 

[Ritsuka]

Microsoft does the same things. The only difference is that it calls it all "Windows 10".

They reverted iCloud to the previous version in beta 7. It's better to do a clean install to remove all the cruft from the previous beta.

 

[Jack Neill]

yearly OSes give plenty bugs. they should do like microsoft and stay many years making their versions better instead of writing new versions every year that add more and more bugs

Huh? They have been releasing a new version of Windows every 6 months?

 

[jeyf]

Huh? They have been releasing a new version of Windows every 6 months?

I am taking a wait and see on the Catalina:
-i just dont have the personal bandwidth to migrate all of my fav apps into a 666 bit environment.
-Mojave is functional.

 

[Jack Neill]

I am taking a wait and see on the Catalina:
-i just dont have the personal bandwidth to migrate all of my fav apps into a 666bit environment.
-Mojave is functional.

I am doin the same, I was just making the point that MSFT doesn't do long cycles on releases anymore.