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by beagle3 1704 days ago
From my perspective, it means it has been deemed ready for fresh installs — which aren’t uncommon. They have, especially with Apple, fewer configurations to test.

But the probability that they got a good enough sample for system upgrade is very small. Systems that have been in use— especially for a few years — tend to diverge widely.

The users who upgrade should wait unless they are willing to risk the small but not negligible probability that the upgrade will Bork their system.

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> From my perspective, it means it has been deemed ready for fresh installs

I don't think you'll find many "normal" people (i.e. non-developers) that agree with you on that definition.

Indeed. And those people used to come to me for help when they upgraded their windows prematurely.