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Should I update my "daily driver" to Sonoma?

Personally I'd never install a beta OS on my main computer. I use it everyday for several hours. Don't want to takes any chance to mess up the OS and have to re-install everything, especially when I have a lot of stuff in it. Testing a beta on a phone is one thing (easier to just erase and re-install) , but testing a beta on a main computer, even if its late in the beta cycle can be a nightmare and you'll never know when it could happen.

The tiny new features added isn't worth it as well.
 
SoYoung said:
The tiny new features added isn't worth it as well.
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I'm still on Monterey and it's hard to find a reason for upgrading - even after the official release. I don't care about widgets, emojis, seamless device handoffs (I don't use an iphone), or whatever goofiness they're focused on.

It's going to get to the point where if you don't use an iphone, or you don't want your laptop to be just like a phone interface, then the macbook may not be the best product for your preferences. That is going to suck, because there's just no reason for it.
 
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I have installed the beta version of Sonoma a month ago on a Samsung T7 SSD which is connected to my Mac Studio. So far it runs well. It boots fast and I have no issues.
 
I have installed betas in my AWU, iPhone and MBP. Have experienced few bugs and sent feedbacks. In my MBP, programs which I use work well okey so, no issues there. iPhone had many minor bugs and AWU's battery drains faster than watch os 9.
 
I deleted the Sonoma partition on my Acasis enclosure a couple of days ago because I had again problems such as slow boot, lockups, spinning beachballs etc. Perhaps the Acasis doesn't want two bootable partitions with a different OS on one SSD. I'll wait for the final release. I prefer to keep the reliable Monterey on the Acasis.
 
If you rely on third-party apps the answer is very obviously a big no, and will continue to be a big no until the app developers tell you they have issued updates to make their apps compliant, which will be at the very least timed with the release 14.0 and likely much longer.

Every October, sure as night follows day, software-devs' official forums and SM pages are filled with complaints from idiots moaning they have just updated to the new MacOS and suddenly their apps don't work properly or at all and it's all Apple's fault. It's not as though they mandatorily have to update to version zero of a new OS. It's like these unnecessary early adopters, who rely on third party apps working fine, deliberately set out to make their own lives a misery.
 
MajorFubar said:
It's not as though they mandatorily have to update to version zero of a new OS.
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Why do I have to do this to make the annoying nag indicators go away?

Code: 
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 && killall Dock

I do have an alias for it, but why can't I just disable these notifications for a new OS?
 
MajorFubar said:
Remove the system settings app from your task bar so you don't get nagged by badge icons, and make sure only Security Updates are selected in Software Update options. Problem = gone away.
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I know all that.

The point is, when you say it's not mandatory to update close to public release, Apple treats people like children and nags at them to do it. So you can expect your average user to just do it.

Of course, personally when Apple wants me to do something, I know I probably shouldn't.
 
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emmab2006 said:
Been running this as my Main since beta 2 , Had no major problems, other than Widgets not updating at certain points, the rest of the OS seems pretty stable i have to say , comparing to Ventura’s current build anyway..
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That is a fault of the developer btw, coming from a developer that develops widget apps.
 
CasualFanboy said:
I know all that.

The point is, when you say it's not mandatory to update close to public release, Apple treats people like children and nags at them to do it. So you can expect your average user to just do it.

Of course, personally when Apple wants me to do something, I know I probably shouldn't.
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There's definitely that. But I'm talking about people who should know better, such as the people i come in contact with on audio-related SM who rely on third-party plugins and apps like those by Native Instruments, Arturia, Izotope, and so-on. They click the Update button on Vx.0 day-1 like Pablov's dog even though they have no need to, then they run around the forums and SM like headless chickens complaining stuff doesn't work properly anymore. And I'll say to them, ok well use the Time Machine backup that Apple told you to make before upgrading, and roll-back your computer. Oh I didn't do that. And I feel like replying, well you're tit then aren't you, and there's no firmware-patch to fix that.
 
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MajorFubar said:
There's definitely that. But I'm talking about people who should know better, such as the people i come in contact with on audio-related SM who rely on third-party plugins and apps like those by Native Instruments, Arturia, Izotope, and so-on. They click the Update button on Vx.0 day-1 like Pablov's dog even though they have no need to, then they run around the forums and SM like headless chickens complaining stuff doesn't work properly anymore. And I'll say to them, ok well use the Time Machine backup that Apple told you to make before upgrading, and roll-back your computer. Oh I didn't do that. And I feel like replying, well you're tit then aren't you, and there's no firmware-patch to fix that.
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Ok, yeah this sounds like a group that should probably know better than that.
 
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