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Catalina still buggy?

MacBH928

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Rashy said:
Mojavian here as well. I am not scared of ending security support. This doesn't mean you are getting flooded with malware the next day, let alone MacOS is a very secure platform anyway.

I hate Crapalina and Bug Slur (even their names sound terrible), and as long I am on Intel devices, they provide me ZERO benefit, but increased risks of bugs, incompatibility and removed features (32bit, dashboard...)

Monterey seems better, especially if you're switching to M-chips anyway, just waiting a bit until stuff like Safari and Memory run as they should.
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well age is already showing, some apps do not support Mojave already and webp images do not show up on Mojave.
 
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posguy99

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k27 said:
It's also a bad joke that you can't install a previous version of the current macOS on a newly released Mac. But in the non-Mac world that is common and there are reasons for it:
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I'm not sure why you think that's a joke, or how you expect that to work. Here is a release, it has support for a certain set of hardware. Here is a new machine, the old release does not have support for the new hardware. You could make a case that Apple should go back and update the old release to support the new hardware, but even Microsoft didn't update Windows 7 to support the new hardware that was coming out before Windows 7 was retired.
 
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k27

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Such a strange post with flaws and wrong comparisons and assumptions that I don't know where to start
 
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Widespread security issues on Mac users is very rare (I couldn’t remember if any). The bigger problem using old version is compatibility issues, when the app that we used were updated and didn‘t compatible anymore with the old OS.
 
MBAir2010

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Did  stop upgrading/supporting Catalina?
There are security updates for Big Sur and Monterrey today.
 
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Rashy said:
Mojavian here as well. I am not scared of ending security support. This doesn't mean you are getting flooded with malware the next day, let alone MacOS is a very secure platform anyway.

I hate Crapalina and Bug Slur (even their names sound terrible), and as long I am on Intel devices, they provide me ZERO benefit, but increased risks of bugs, incompatibility and removed features (32bit, dashboard...)

Monterey seems better, especially if you're switching to M-chips anyway, just waiting a bit until stuff like Safari and Memory run as they should.
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What problems did you have with Catalina? I have it installed on an external drive and I've never had a problem.
 
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greyeyezz

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I'm starting to have issues now, sometimes video will stop playing on any of three browsers and also on my hard drive.
When I shutdown Boom 2 everything returns to normal. Don't know if it's Boom or the OS.
 
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Im on Catalina, MBP mid2012, SSD, should I roll back to Mojave? Using FCP 10.5.1 swell which is a must

Any advice guys?
 
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Makisupa Policeman said:
Did the latest security update slow down Cat for anyone else? Seems like I’m getting beachball’d a lot more lately. This is on a 2012 MBP refurb with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM fwiw.
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I feel like this too, my keystrokes and mouse movement seem a bit laggy.
 
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greyeyezz

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Well after Safari crashing and preview not saving my marked up pdf I had enough and upgraded to Monterey. So far so good.
 
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FyerFyer said:
Im on Catalina, MBP mid2012, SSD, should I roll back to Mojave? Using FCP 10.5.1 swell which is a must

Any advice guys?
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Yes
Mojave is less annoying, and taste great!
but
im downloading Catalina on my mac mini now.
just for a back up.
 
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Makisupa Policeman said:
Did the latest security update slow down Cat for anyone else? Seems like I’m getting beachball’d a lot more lately. This is on a 2012 MBP refurb with 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM fwiw.
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The colors seem more over saturated and yellow to me after the update 2021-008. Its kind of weird given it was a security update. It's like the color profile changed, but it didn't. I'm on a 2017 13 inch MBP. Also yeah it does seem a little slower, esp in Safari.
 
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Even after erasing and installing a Straight Clean Install of Catalina with a USB installer created by Diskmaker X, its still has these 2 bugs that happens on my iMac Late 2013 i5 Quad Core. iTunes Column View of Songs the scroll bars will not move when "click on the scroll bar to: jump to next page or jump to spot that's clcked". It will not work. You have to click the bar and drag. This after a clean install no migration of anything. Second, I have trouble enable Two Factor authentication. It randomly asks me to sign in again and again. Reverting to Mojave is stable with these two issues. So for my iMac Late 2013, Mojave is more stable than Catalina.
 
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