[tomaskafka]

> The worst experience I've had was telling my dad MacOS Catalina couldn't be installed on his $3.5k iMac.

Just in case you'd be ok with unofficial way - there are patchers to enable macOS install on older machines:

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-macos-catalina-unsu...

[thrwawy283]

This is something I'd be comfortable with maintaining, but I couldn't leave with my dad. (I work on the road for months, and it's unpredictable when I come back. Longest I was out was 2 years..)

[jiveturkey]

Isn’t that backwards? He wants to install Catalina on M1/M2 hardware. So do I :(