Ask HN: Is it safe to update to macOS Catalina (10.15.3)?

[icodemuch]

When Catalina first came out, HN was flooded with articles about how bad it was. Now, a few weeks later, is it safe to update my mac? I've backed up everything, but would still hate to have my personal laptop performing on a subpar level when I need it for photoshop, iterm2, xcode, firefox, etc.

[Znafon]

We just got bite by a bug were Catalina would randomly delete some Wireguard tunnels. A temporary workaround to restore them has been published in the Wireguard client but Catalina doesn't feel stable at the moment.

[actionowl]

It depends on what all you use, at least GPGTools Mail plugin and MacOS FUSE (At least SSHFS) still don't support Catalina.

[slipwalker]

i am running the Catalina 10.15.1 both on a Macbook pro retina 13 inch early 2015 and an iMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch 2017. For java/kotlin/angular/node/typescript/flutter development and system admin tasks.

Both run a lot better than Mojave ever did.

[thijsvandien]

In what way? I only just upgraded to Mojave from Sierra, and consider it now usable enough, even though there are still obvious, stupid bugs. I would be surprised if Catalina had fewer of those already.

[slipwalker]

Mojave security "enhancements" kept the imac's I/O ( even with a SSD ) crawling, with the beachball hanging even on the most trivial I/O operations.

[gshdg]

Avoid it if you use Mail.app. Otherwise doesn’t seem too bad. Performance isn’t an issue.

[frou_dh]

10.15.2 is not even released yet, never mind 10.15.3

[chatmasta]

Curious if anyone is running it on a mid 2013 air?

[jvvlimme]

Yep, runs just fine. Except for some security settings I haven't noticed much difference with the older versions.

[copperfitting]

I would rather prefer windows

[tez12]

my recommendation is to wait until it will become stable, if you dont need any particular new behave.