[athiercelin]

I've heard these upgrade stories since the 90s (on Mac). It got better a few years back, and it's back again at hit or miss but in the end it's like backup strategies: it's basic knowledge at this point but still needs to be repeated.

If your mac is a production machine, don't jump on any of the updates, decide if you need the update then check your programs one by one.

If you can, pop into the Apple Store to test the system.

I'm not defending Apple, I'm not victim-blaming, it's just an advice to avoid the misery of going past the point of no return.

[neurostimulant]

Yup, this is pretty much what I do regardless of operating system. Just don't upgrade to the latest major version immediately after release. Wait around a bit to see if other people reported any major issue, and then wait until those issue fixed before upgrading.

[cosmiccatnap]

I get that, and everyone in this thread knows that, but the issue is that alot of devices come with it and it is branded as "stable" Windows and Linux have a better excuse they have to support thousands upon thousands of devices and configurations but for apple to have this many issues with the hand full of pre built systems they have, well, it should be perfectly understandable to ask why a company with this much time and money would release something in this state especially when they had a beta. For most of us it's not a big deal but plenty of people have to start writing their app and testing on this and for them it's pretty confusing and you have to ask yourself how it got this way when there shouldn't have been any reason for it to.