Hello, long time reader, first time poster on here 
I'm swithering between continuing to use Catalina on my late 2012 iMac (now that it's almost reached its expiry date for support from Apple) versus using one of the patchers available to run a more recent OS.
I've done this before, and had Monterey running smoothly on the machine (an idiot move by me - failing to read release notes causing update crash), but am now back on Catalina.
From those with better knowledge than me, would it be more secure and better for the machine to be running an 'official' release like Catalina even beyond official support or just go back to using the patched version of Monterey?
I don't kick the backside out of the machine, performance-wise; just Zoom for work and a couple of browser tabs open.
Thanks for any input you guys might have on this.
I'm swithering between continuing to use Catalina on my late 2012 iMac (now that it's almost reached its expiry date for support from Apple) versus using one of the patchers available to run a more recent OS.
I've done this before, and had Monterey running smoothly on the machine (an idiot move by me - failing to read release notes causing update crash), but am now back on Catalina.
From those with better knowledge than me, would it be more secure and better for the machine to be running an 'official' release like Catalina even beyond official support or just go back to using the patched version of Monterey?
I don't kick the backside out of the machine, performance-wise; just Zoom for work and a couple of browser tabs open.
Thanks for any input you guys might have on this.