Greetings all,
So, I have a late 2013 iMac and she came with Mavericks loaded on, I think if I do the factory restore option it will allow me to reinstall the OS that came loaded on the system as opposed to Catalina which it's running now. I am seriously considering rolling back to Mavericks because I loathe the current system.
It's sluggish, the iLife/iWork applications have become bloated and sluggish with age as well and in all honesty I miss the old iMovie, iPhoto, and overall UI of the way Aqua used to be.
I still have my install discs for Adobe CS6 which while it won't function here in Catalina, it will in Mavericks. I've been using the creative cloud from Adobe not long after it released but by Odin's beard does Photoshop ever chug along on my system now a days. There won't be many features I will miss going back to CS6 so the downgrade in design software isn't major as it's mainly used these days for personal use.
I don't play any games on my iMac, and I don't browse the web much outside of a few websites here and there, and I don't torrent anything. I use Spotify for music but I don't listen to much here on the computer itself.
So if I went back, would I be able to get by? Does YouTube and or Facebook function in the older version of Safari? Any advice from someone maybe still using Mavericks that'd be great, before I dive in so to speak.
Thanks.
So, I have a late 2013 iMac and she came with Mavericks loaded on, I think if I do the factory restore option it will allow me to reinstall the OS that came loaded on the system as opposed to Catalina which it's running now. I am seriously considering rolling back to Mavericks because I loathe the current system.
It's sluggish, the iLife/iWork applications have become bloated and sluggish with age as well and in all honesty I miss the old iMovie, iPhoto, and overall UI of the way Aqua used to be.
I still have my install discs for Adobe CS6 which while it won't function here in Catalina, it will in Mavericks. I've been using the creative cloud from Adobe not long after it released but by Odin's beard does Photoshop ever chug along on my system now a days. There won't be many features I will miss going back to CS6 so the downgrade in design software isn't major as it's mainly used these days for personal use.
I don't play any games on my iMac, and I don't browse the web much outside of a few websites here and there, and I don't torrent anything. I use Spotify for music but I don't listen to much here on the computer itself.
So if I went back, would I be able to get by? Does YouTube and or Facebook function in the older version of Safari? Any advice from someone maybe still using Mavericks that'd be great, before I dive in so to speak.
Thanks.