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Well, this basically confirms my decision to not purchase a macbook for my next laptop.

Why? As long as you're not getting the ARM ones, you can stick on 10.15 - which is something many will do anyway for at least a year until Apple irons out the worst bugs of BS.

Only thing I'm still pissed about 10.15 is that Wine still can't run 32-bit apps.

You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Then you get to make the choice of using an OS that's vulnerable to exploits and an OS with a gigantic backdoor in it.

> You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches.

Catalina should be supported for two more years:

https://computing.cs.cmu.edu/desktop/os-lifecycle

https://www.csun.edu/it/supported-operating-systems

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/imdzv4/endoflife_...

Ah excuse me for that. 2 years of additional lifespan is still painfully short for a deprecated OS. Even free OSes like Ubuntu LTS get more years of support than versions of macOS (Ubuntu LTS release cycle of 2 years minus 5 years of support = 3 years of additional support after deprecation).

I have a 2010 Mini still running High Sierra (10.13) and it's getting patches.

Didn't High Sierra officially stop getting patches when Big Sur was released?

Could be, but given that that was yesterday I won’t have noticed yet.

I'm still running 10.14 here, for that very reason (32-bit apps.)

You can run 32 bits apps with Crossover.

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