Well Written Article About Big Sur's Release/Issues

[honestone33]

Saw this earlier today on the site tidbits.com:

Big Sur Is Here, but We Suggest You Say “No Sir” for Now - TidBITS

Apple has released macOS 11 Big Sur, but we advise delaying upgrades to production Macs thanks to significant behind-the-scenes changes.

tidbits.com

Definitely worth reading and heeding the suggestion to avoid it for now. And the part about cloning software, and specifically SuperDuper!, definitely hits home with me.

I am going to wait to test Big Sur, most likely shortly after V11.1.x or V11.2.x appears. And again that will be for testing only. Will still be using Catalina as my primary, day to day OS. I am anticipating not moving to Big Sur until January, as that is when I expect Tech Tool Pro will have a version that is compatible with Big Sur. Of course, that assumes that my other 4 critical applications will already be compatible with updates.

 

[Wolf1701]

11.2.x in 2022 should be a great moment to try Big Sur!

 

[honestone33]

11.2.x in 2022 should be a great moment to try Big Sur!

Ha ha! I am anticipating V11.2.x will be out by January, and maybe V11.3.x.

So, you are not upgrading until 2022? Good luck!

 

[Wolf1701]

Upgraded yesterday, thank you. But 11.0 is Big Sur, 11.1 is the next OS, 11.2 the next one... and so on.

 

[honestone33]

Upgraded yesterday, thank you. But 11.0 is Big Sur, 11.1 is the next OS, 11.2 the next one... and so on.

I thought they were going to use both places after the decimal points for versions of Big Sur. But if they just use the last one, OK, I could be mistaken regarding te numbering future versions. Either way, I am waiting until at least 2 more "major" versions of Big Sur to appear. That will be V11.1.x, 11.2.x, 11.0.2, or V11.0.3.

 

[Wolf1701]

My apologies... 11.1 beta.