I will reiterate that I would not run a system that is not receiving security support on a machine that connects to the internet and contains any of my personal data. Apple fixed one 0-day exploit recently that could be triggered just by opening a legitimate email. You can avoid some security threats by not doing stupid things, but not all of them.
TENFOURFOX KEEPS SAYING UNTRUSTED UPDATE
For someone who doesn't like to spend a lot of time changing things around I think it would be a very bad move to update to it. Mojave will lose security updates in, give or take, three months. Don't be feared into updating because of security issues, most things can be avoided if you don't do dumb things. Unless you have an app needing an updated OS. Big Sur if you want to experience the latest and greatest and Apple's new UI (very puffy), which I am not fond of. I haven't seen what 10.15 Catalina had to offer other then dropping 32 bit apps and breaking up of itunes into separate apps. I found HS to be flaky at best, Mojave has been great. Since both Catalina & Big Sur only support 64-bit apps the main penalty for me is unavoidable with either.Īnyone out there thing I should just move to Mojave?Īny tips and tricks for the upgrade? Pitfalls I should avoid? High Sierra was very stable for me and I remember Catalina catching some flack for not being stable, I see the latest Catalina release is 10.15.7 so hopefully this is solid by now. I still wanted to get some feedback on the move though. It would seem sensible to upgrade to Catalina first as I know historically Apple makes downgrading difficult.
TENFOURFOX KEEPS SAYING UNTRUSTED INSTALL
So I'm currently backing up my entire HDD to a bootable volume and going to install either Catalina or Big Sur. Some things are now starting to protest that the OS version is too old to support updates to software e.g.
There were a few things like still being able to use Aperture where I have a large catalogue of organised raw photos and 1 Password version 6.86 from the App Store that I paid for (where as the upgraded version work on a subscription model). I've been running High Sierra (10.13.6) for ages on my iMac for no other reason than it works and I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I'll go and read the Ars reviews but thought I'd post here for individual experiences also.