Little delays and hitches pop up here and there, or there's the occasional spinner in workflow steps that ran lag-free on Mojave and earlier Mac OSes. I emphasize "a little"-the margin isn't tragic-but it's noticeable and annoying. That said: I would nonetheless summarize Catalina as a "janky disappointment." The "upgrade" improved nothing about my overall Mac user experience. I use a normal, middle-of-the-road "DPReview Reader" software / accessory stack-Adobe CC apps, Capture One, Photomechanic, Wacom tablet, etc. I clicked the update button in October everything worked afterward. I sense I'm among the lucky few (?) who had an uneventful Catalina transition (on a low-rent 2015 13" Macbook Pro). If that happens and I have no alternative to upgrading, I just may go over to the dark side and build a Windows super-machine. Everything is working well at the moment, but knowing Apple, like Adobe and other big players in the software business, they will probably do everything they can to force us to upgrade. I run Mojave on 4 Macs, including two Mac Pros and a MacBook Pro. I don't care what anyone says, I am not upgrading to Catalina. Support people are trained to use upgrading as the solution to most problems, but the problems are usually created by the developer to begin with. There was probably a better solution for you than upgrading to Catalina. I go back to the old adage: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. There's no real benefit to Catalina-just more bells and whistles and only 64 bit apps will run on it-some people consider that a benefit. Has anyone out there found any benefits of Catalina other than Apple begging you to sign up for their music service? What really bothers me was no mention from the first technician that some of my apps may no longer work and settings would be changed before doing this. now I am really miffed so I call them back and at this hour I am restoring back to Mojave. So this evening I went to print an image from LR and all of my settings were screwed up, printer profiles missing etc. And upgrading did not fix the original issue I called about. ![]() I used Catalina on today (Sunday) and immediately became annoyed at the built is BS telling me how badly I wanted Apple Music. Being stupid I upgraded on Saturday.bad move. I never had the playlist problem with iTunes on a PC. ![]() Now I thought this did not make any sense. Ok so on my MacBook Pro I had an issue with syncing music playlist so I called Apple, after about an hour on the phone of try this, try that, they finally said the only way to fix the problem was to upgrade to Catalina.
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