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Should i upgrade from mojave to big sur12/29/2023 I'd say you got lucky.Īgain, I think they manage to perfect it every third OS release and that they really need a 2-3 year cycle as they are pretty much operating on that schedule anyway and just releasing garbage in the interim years. My Blizzard games that worked in Mojave are no different in Catalina thankfully, but I miss Valve's library, I miss Quake 4 and Doom 3, I miss Batman Arkham Asylum (though I am grateful that Arkham City survived), I miss the BioShock games (though am grateful Remastered is okay). Most of my Steam Library is gone thanks to Catalina's culling of 32-bit support. Similarly, even if they didn't update to Big Sur, but instead ran the latest Security Update (concurrent to Big Sur), they'll still get the updated EFI for that particular Mac.Īgain, Big Sur Beta 9 is smoother than Catalina 10.15.7. So, if the OP keeps on Mojave and then updates to Big Sur, they will get whatever the newest EFI update is as of the version of Big Sur they're upgrading to. But going from Mojave to Big Sur really ought to be just fine.Īs for the EFI updates, post Sierra, every minor point release of the operating system (let alone major updates) will update a Mac's EFI to whatever the latest version is as of that update. If Big Sur's oldest supported OS for doing an upgrade for is 10.10 or 10.11, then yeah, I would say a clean install is better. Skipping 4 or 5 or more OS releases isn't great. Everything since Snow Leopard hasn't mattered too much. The only OS upgrade path that was wonky for some reason was Tiger directly to Snow Leopard without doing Leopard first. Apple didn't polish it enough before releasing. But I see zero reason to go to Catalina whatsoever. But I'm always a fan of clean installations (plus then you can create a Mojave partition if you want to devote some of your drive to legacy 32-bit apps. You should have no trouble doing a standard upgrade to Big Sur. The current Big Sur Public Beta is proving to be way less glitchy than Catalina even on its. I'd wait until Big Sur comes out and just either upgrade or clean install to it. They can afford to revert to Jobs' schedule. It's not like it's trying to compete with Windows 10 in terms of what it can put out every iteration. That OS does not need to release on a schedule. They need to revert to the way it was done with Jobs. My theory is that where Jobs was content to have the OS release when it was ready, Cook is still letting people get the OS polished on the same timeframe, so long as they have something to pump out annually. Though, I'd still wait until 11.0.1 just to be safe. 0 release will be smoother than Catalina is in its. You can usually get a good feel early on how it'll be. High Sierra might have stabilized somewhat in 10.13.4 and moreso in 10.13.6, but those releases were crap from the start and they remained crap until something better replaced it. With problematic releases like Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, and Catalina, they didn't get better past the. But with Mountain Lion, El Capitan, and Mojave (which have been the only really good post-Snow Leopard releases, in my opinion), they were good pretty much from the. 0 release on Macs where it really matters is important. I used to think that waiting made a difference. Pleased to report there's no sign of them here. I would say go for it, with the proviso of using Eagle Filer or something similar to back up your email if you use Mail, as Michael Tsai's blog page & related comments suggest there are some lingering bugs related to mail data loss on Catalina. One benefit already is that I can now use a subscription I have for Parcel app on my Mac (I've only been able to use on my iOS devices), as Catalina supports 'Sign-in with '. Was planning on creating an install of Mojave to play those, but it turns out most of them are now in the Mac App Store with Catalina-compatible versions anyway (not sure why the updates hadn't shown up – maybe something to do with Mac App Store on Mojave?). My thinking was that Catalina by now should be more stable than at release and have fewer bugs, and Big Sur will have the usual intro bugs and issues – which could potentially delay it being something I can upgrade to.Īlso, had a look at Legacy software via About This Mac and the list had dwindled to a handful of games. Had been a Catalina holdout up until the weekend, then thought the transition to Big Surprise might be smoother if I hit the intermediate stepping stone.
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