[komoreba]

When reading articles like this, I always wonder whether it was that different way back when: Did macOS change less disruptively five years ago?

I switched to using macOS just recently (Mojave being the first I really used), so I might not know.

I notice myself being less and less open to radical new change and being more willing (and able) to just stick to something that works for me. I have tinkered a fair lot in my days, mainly on Linux.

[stoobs]

I think some people have short memories, there have been numerous grumblings (right or wrong) about many of the step-change releases. To me, this feels a bit like when the rosetta fat-binaries were killed off in 10.7, for some people it was pretty bad for those with software which didn't and wouldn't support Intel binaries, but for others it was a minor blip.

Catalina has been fine for me, but I probably have a different use-case.

[sjwright]

This is far and away the most disruptive major update to macOS in recent memory. My experience of the past few major versions have been almost entirely seamless.

[komoreba]

I see! Maybe because I wasn’t running any 32-bit applications, it was rather seamless for me.

[sjwright]

I haven’t had a bad experience with Catalina, but the new app sandboxing has broken a few minor tools like BalenaEtcher. Not a big deal as it still runs fine under sudo... and they’ll surely release a new version shortly.