I did the upgrade this week, and that's my advice for you: if you are not sure, don't! Unless you use your mac just to use email and have fun.
I am still waiting for the day an OS will be made for those use the PC to work. I did wait for months before migrating to Mojave, I usually do wait a lot later a new OS release. This time I just did a backup and did the upgrade to Catalina as soon as my system asked me to - why not? Of course the installation froze, why not... Hours looking an installation screen pretending to do something! There is a useless feature that tries to configure my mac and freezes all the time, I have to remind me to step over it, I think will put a sticky in my screen to remind me to! I could finish the installation, of course, I do this since my green iMac...
So now I have an unstable system that does not run a lot of my apps, some will never run again. I can't look at my bank account, the bank website does not accept Catalina. I will have to play a lot of my games in Windows! By the way, Windows might be a better OS today, if wasn't even more unstable. With so many features, they forgot to include some basic warnings before start the migration process so the user can take some precautions, not interrupting some important work.
Now it's too late, let's face it. I did look at the list of new things about Catalina and honestly didn't find much to justify a new OS besides the security improvements. But I am trying to work... now Finder opens with a black box in the left side that hides the list of icons, I have to put in the list mode, but sometimes the name column is in the same size of the window... what happened with the old and good list of files??? You know, I work 90% of the time in a Mac and still go faster in Windows when managing files! The top bar is still a mess of icons, the app menus go over the icons hiding some of them, my user name is still in the right but the commands are still in the left... There is a lot of basic usability design practices that is required from a developer that Apple does not correct in it's own OS!
Sorry for this small list of complains (I have a lot more, believe me). A Macintosh is an expansive product, more than never, and I am a very unhappy customer today. Would be better if Apple returns to old system of paying for a new system, it's a kind of relationship that works better for us that wish to work.
I am still waiting for the day an OS will be made for those use the PC to work. I did wait for months before migrating to Mojave, I usually do wait a lot later a new OS release. This time I just did a backup and did the upgrade to Catalina as soon as my system asked me to - why not? Of course the installation froze, why not... Hours looking an installation screen pretending to do something! There is a useless feature that tries to configure my mac and freezes all the time, I have to remind me to step over it, I think will put a sticky in my screen to remind me to! I could finish the installation, of course, I do this since my green iMac...
So now I have an unstable system that does not run a lot of my apps, some will never run again. I can't look at my bank account, the bank website does not accept Catalina. I will have to play a lot of my games in Windows! By the way, Windows might be a better OS today, if wasn't even more unstable. With so many features, they forgot to include some basic warnings before start the migration process so the user can take some precautions, not interrupting some important work.
Now it's too late, let's face it. I did look at the list of new things about Catalina and honestly didn't find much to justify a new OS besides the security improvements. But I am trying to work... now Finder opens with a black box in the left side that hides the list of icons, I have to put in the list mode, but sometimes the name column is in the same size of the window... what happened with the old and good list of files??? You know, I work 90% of the time in a Mac and still go faster in Windows when managing files! The top bar is still a mess of icons, the app menus go over the icons hiding some of them, my user name is still in the right but the commands are still in the left... There is a lot of basic usability design practices that is required from a developer that Apple does not correct in it's own OS!
Sorry for this small list of complains (I have a lot more, believe me). A Macintosh is an expansive product, more than never, and I am a very unhappy customer today. Would be better if Apple returns to old system of paying for a new system, it's a kind of relationship that works better for us that wish to work.
