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Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to macOS Catalina Yet?
vpEfljFL 1615 days ago [-]
I've upgraded one of my machines in order to try native jira app from AppStore.

Plot twist: I can't login to AppStore now from that device, it just says "unexpected error" or something like that. No reboot/relogin fixed that no matter what. Plenty of people with the same issue as me as well who can't use AppStore.

jamil7 1615 days ago [-]
Yeah I was on the betas because I wanted to checkout SwiftUI, I upgraded to the public release a few weeks ago. I had issues with the XCode beta during the beta period and some weird glitches in system preferences but all that seems fixed now. I seem to be super lucky that I haven't had any of the issues people have been talking about.
shabirgilkar 1615 days ago [-]
Yes I upgraded as well. As a designer I haven't faced any problems in my work so far. All the design tools work nicely as before except Adobe products(which I'm not using for a long time now but I read about Adobe tools facing some problem on internet)
djzidon 1615 days ago [-]
No - the new features don't outweigh the potential headache for me. I don't see the point right now, other than getting rid of the annoying popup (but still nowhere near as annoying as the windows update popups were haha).
asdkhadsj 1615 days ago [-]
I usually upgrade my travel laptop first before my daily driver laptop. So far, no troubles on my travel laptop. However I've only used it minimally.

I'm going to give my main laptop another month before I upgrade, I imagine.

gshdg 1613 days ago [-]
Just got a new laptop with it. Had some frustrations with the Applications folder lockdown and some of the apps being dumbed down even further than before. But no glitches.
tikej 1615 days ago [-]
No, I have not. I don't trust the Apple enough to break my workflow at the moment although I don't even use any 32 bit apps (at least that I'm aware of).

I will also wait for some .2 or further release.

andrei_says_ 1616 days ago [-]
No and I don't intend to for a while after reading this: https://tyler.io/broken/
tmaly 1615 days ago [-]
I have not, there were people that told me it was not working with Cisco VPN software. Having the ability to work over VPN is far more important than having the latest OSX
SamReidHughes 1615 days ago [-]
Yes. The one problem I had was that an XCode update would fail to install after a complete download. After the latest update (to 15.1? IIRC), that stopped happening.
cerberusss 1616 days ago [-]
Installed it, and had been running the beta for some time. No problems that I can think of. But I don’t use iPhoto, or any apps that depend on iCloud Drive.
thijsvandien 1614 days ago [-]
I only just upgraded to Mojave, after long consideration. Still some rough edges, but by now that one works acceptably to me.
dmlittle 1615 days ago [-]
No. Just 1hr ago a colleague accidentally upgraded to Catalina and her computer is stuck on an infinite restart loop.
api_dolla 1615 days ago [-]
No— I’ve been burned before with upgrading soon after release and I worry that some of my audio software won’t work.
schappim 1612 days ago [-]
No - I have some 32bit apps that provide more utility than Catalina provides.
kevinherron 1615 days ago [-]
Not yet. Will probably wait for .2 release. It's my work computer so I'm not in a big hurry.
api 1616 days ago [-]
Yes. No serious issues so far, and I like being able to use the Jira iPad app.
asdkhadsj 1615 days ago [-]
Whoa, didn't know that was a thing. Vaguely I have heard about running iOS stuff on Desktop, but I didn't follow closely because I had no interest in it. Now.. I do.

Will have to give this a try, thanks!

api 1615 days ago [-]
You can't do it with just any iOS app. It has to be recompiled by the dev. It's basically just rebuilding it for X64 instead of ARM64 and linking slightly differently though, so lots of apps are doing it.
sdan 1615 days ago [-]
I have but regret it.
jjjbokma 1616 days ago [-]
Not yet, probably next month.
Maxtylor 1615 days ago [-]
Not yet, maybe sonn
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