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You're probably right, but as a non audio/video person, I'm trying to stay away until the next version. If the most apologetic Apple cultists I listen to podcasts from are still critical, that's a bad sign imo. So far all I've heard in the real world is the annoying security popups which I also don't want.

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Those annoying pop ups are only annoying because on day one everything has to ask permission. After that, you only see them if you install a new application. I certainly prefer having to give my permission before an application uses my microphone or records my screen.

I agree with “just day one” in general, but do note that if you develop apps or write AppleScript that require permissions it can get pretty annoying as every build asks for permissions all over again. (Actually I’m not quite sure about native apps built from Xcode, but this was my experience with a Qt app I wrote last month.)

The early days of Catalina were pretty bad.

But after doing a clean install of macOS 10.15.3, everything’s been fine.

I expect 10.15.4, currently in beta, to be as stable as any other version of macOS at this point in its lifecycle.

I've only had one problem with Catalina and ironically it prevents me from using the feature that I updated for: Sidecar.

Turns out that Sidecar doesn't work if your mac is connected to a VPN, even if you are connected to your iPad via USB with its wireless turned off.

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