Every time beta comes

[airlied]

Every year apple to release the public beta of macos Im like:

- Nah im NOT!!! gonna upgrade this time! too much troubles!

- Let me watch some keynotes on youtube! But no install!

- So many new features & improvements! But not worth the beta! Im not a developer and I don't have a backup machine!

- Perhaps start from beta 3?

- How about register the beta program first then see what other people say on Macrumors before jumping into beta 2? Um.

Beta 1 Releases:

- Ahhhh fark it I got the backup. just do it.

after many betas:

- I swear to god I'll never do this next year! Fark Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks/Yosemite/El capitan/Sierra/High Sierra/Mojave/Catalina betas!

Anyone with me?

 

[frou]

In 15 years, I've never installed a Mac OS beta and don't plan to either.

There's more interesting stuff in the world to direct FOMO tendencies towards!

 

[tyc0746]

Never install OS betas, and even once they’re released I tend to wait a few weeks to see the reviews and what’s broken.

Then I’ll install it on one of my lesser used machines (2012 Mac Mini), and try that for a while before putting it onto three others (a MacPro 5,1, 2015 iMac, 2015 Mac mini), and maybe 6 months in I’ll put it on my ‘mission critical’ machine (2019 iMac).

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Never install OS betas, and even once they’re released I tend to wait a few weeks to see the reviews and what’s broken.

Then I’ll install it on one of my lesser used machines (2012 Mac Mini), and try that for a while before putting it onto three others (a MacPro 5,1, 2015 iMac, 2015 Mac mini), and maybe 6 months in I’ll put it on my ‘mission critical’ machine (2019 iMac).

You must be responsible for some serious **** with your "mission critical machine".

 

[theapplehead]

You must be responsible for some serious **** with your "mission critical machine".

Cue the Mission Impossible theme song. And President Cruise can walk out now.

 

[fisherking]

this is the catalina forum... which is in beta. so, a great place to discuss needs, issues, questions, comments.. about the catalina betas.

why discuss something you're not running? what's the point of this thread, really?...

 

[mikiotty]

Every time since Lion

 

[AlanShutko]

I pretty much upgrade every year. There was only one year that stuff was so broken I had to revert. Can't remember which year that was, actually.

 

[Fishrrman]

I install the betas on an EXTERNAL "experimental" drive when they come out, as I do the release versions.

But that DOES NOT mean that I install them (or even the newer releases of the OS) onto my MAIN drive.

I PREFER to use older and "mature" versions of the OS, for stability. I PREFER to "stay behind a bit" when it comes to the day-to-day OS that I use for most things.

That's "what works" for me...

 

[airlied]

In 15 years, I've never installed a Mac OS beta and don't plan to either.

There's more interesting stuff in the world to direct FOMO tendencies towards!

Yeah, I'm Pretty sure you have more interesting stuff to do such as visiting a forum about beta OS that you never installed.

 

[frou]

Yeah, I'm Pretty sure you have more interesting stuff to do such as visiting a forum about beta OS that you never installed.

There are degrees. Reading about something every so often is a different ballgame to daily immersion.

I'm not trying to be antagonistic. The original post just sounded like FOMO

 

[Tarek]

I have not had many problems with previous beta versions of MacOS but Catalina has been quite unstable for me. I find myself restarting my laptop at least daily in order to get it working properly. Thankfully, I installed Catalina on a separate partition just to test it out and am back to Mojave full-time till the stable release.