{"id":29654,"date":"2020-08-03T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29654"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:19:37","slug":"catalina-more-trouble-than-its-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/catalina-more-trouble-than-its-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalina: More Trouble Than It&rsquo;s Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/8936\">Riccardo Mori<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/morrick.me\/archives\/8936\">\n<p>I am the first to wonder whether it makes sense to write yet another part of this little saga, when Catalina is basically entering its last two months of active duty. But Catalina remains, I think, one of the most (if not the most) controversial Mac OS X releases, and now that I have finally had direct experience with it on a new machine I&rsquo;m using just for testing, I can confirm.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>When a couple of articles from this series on Catalina reached Hacker News in the past months, a lot of quips I got as response were from people who dismissed the problem altogether with remarks along the lines of <em>These nerds must always find something to complain\/whine about. There&rsquo;s nothing wrong with Catalina<\/em>. Well, that&rsquo;s simply not the impression I&rsquo;ve had and continue to have. And not because I have 309 emails of negative feedback and horror stories to prove it, but because this volume of feedback itself is an indicator, in my private sphere, of a larger discussion that has been going on publicly (in online forums and specialised mailing lists) since Catalina was released last autumn.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I was hoping to skip directly to Big Sur, but I&rsquo;ll probably have to update to Catalina soon to use the latest Xcode.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/12\/waiting-to-update-to-catalina\/\">Waiting to Update to Catalina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"catalina-more-trouble-than-its-worth-update-2020-08-24\">Update (2020-08-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tjluoma\/status\/1290428825218752512\">TJ Luoma<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tjluoma\/status\/1290428825218752512\">\n<p>I bought a 16\" MBPro in April (because WFH). It regularly-but-randomly reboots. Apple replaced the entire logic board and Touch Bar controller. Still happens. I happened to upgrade my Mac mini to Catalina - same issue happened. But at least the Mac mini could go back to Mojave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riccardo Mori: I am the first to wonder whether it makes sense to write yet another part of this little saga, when Catalina is basically entering its last two months of active duty. But Catalina remains, I think, one of the most (if not the most) controversial Mac OS X releases, and now that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-08-03T19:34:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"28f93822-46bb-4492-ac0a-33181cd330b7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-08-24T21:19:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKPk4Ika7RJKsCjMYHNMwtw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,1666],"class_list":["post-29654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29654\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}