Comment by buro9
2 years ago
this is the advice I've been hearing more often than not. I've been Linux and Windows for most of my career, and only strayed into Mac a few times in the last 5 years. Without fail, _every_ Mac I've owned has needed support involvement on an OS upgrade.
when I've told people that, what I hear is "you're not supposed to update the OS on a Mac, stick with the one it shipped with and never make the major OS update as those are for newer hardware".
to me that seems illogical, wrong, worse than Windows... and yet as an observer to comments like the parent and seeing colleagues get bitten by issues, it appears to be true... the happy path with Mac OS is to never upgrade the major version
The happy path with macOS is to only use hardware and apps made by Apple, I think that’s the problem.
If you stick to that, upgrades are usually pretty safe.
This very topic is about broken grep made (or at least patched) by Apple.
Hence the “usually”. And compared to the problems with 3rd party hardware and apps.