Re: catalena

[James Linder]

Thanks for the answer, to Chris too.
When catalena was relrased there were a flurry of ‘don’t rush’ type posts. I 
was checking if ‘dont rush to catelena’ was still the general opinion.
I have not yet even received my macbook (tomorrow :-) so it is that new.
From an engineering point of view it makes sense to limit the os but is still 
um irritating
James

> On 24 Feb 2020, at 1:10 am, Mojca Miklavec  wrote:
> 
> Given that you have an OS installed, just try to install whatever you
> need and if you run into any serious issues, ask about specific
> problems.
> 
> (It might be true what Chris said and that you won't be able to go
> back in time, not sure when the hardware was released, so maybe 10.14
> still works, but if you have 10.15 installed, try to check if you see
> any problems first. The OS has been around for a while, so most
> pressing problems were solved in the meantime. You won't be able to
> build or run 32-bit software though.)
> 
> Mojca
> 
> On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 at 14:14, James Linder  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All
>> 
>> After 6 years my macbook battery is really past it’s use-by.
>> The keyboard has become a sea of 
>> won’t-push-this-week-and-hard-to-get-a-keypush so I decided to get a new 
>> laptop, but of course it comes with catalena.
>> I’ve been using high sierra and all my ports are good. Is catalena now 
>> stable enough to ‘just work’ or need I consider installing (say) high sierra.
>> 
>> James
>> 

Re: catalena

[Christopher Jones]

Generally speaking mac OS 10.15 works just as well as any other, and as with 
other OSes there are some known issues. Like 32 bit support (not possible on 
10.15). Only you know which ports you use, and without this it is impossible to 
be any more specific.

note though, if you new machine was released with 10.15, you anyway will not be 
able to install an older OS on it. Macs only support the OS they where 
originally released with, and newer. So most likely you are stuck with 10.15 
anyway.

Chris

> On 22 Feb 2020, at 1:13 pm, James Linder  wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
> After 6 years my macbook battery is really past it’s use-by.
> The keyboard has become a sea of 
> won’t-push-this-week-and-hard-to-get-a-keypush so I decided to get a new 
> laptop, but of course it comes with catalena.
> I’ve been using high sierra and all my ports are good. Is catalena now stable 
> enough to ‘just work’ or need I consider installing (say) high sierra.
> 
> James
> 



smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

catalena

[James Linder]

Hi All

After 6 years my macbook battery is really past it’s use-by.
The keyboard has become a sea of won’t-push-this-week-and-hard-to-get-a-keypush 
so I decided to get a new laptop, but of course it comes with catalena.
I’ve been using high sierra and all my ports are good. Is catalena now stable 
enough to ‘just work’ or need I consider installing (say) high sierra.

James