Between bugs in the OS itself, bugs in apps, and developers who lag behind on OS support (looking at you DAW and audio plug-in devs) it will probably be a year before I try this upgrade myself.
Case in point: if you have catalina and you go to system preferences, system updates, you will have the big sur update in big, then some text on the bottom of the window saying something like "there are some other updates..." and then you'll see the security updates for your current OS
https://appuals.com/stop-windows-7-from-upgrading-to-windows...
This is a post about how a major software update from a vendor is breaking their own hardware, and from a company that prides itself on not needing to be a computer expert to use their products.
That’s why I didn’t say that.
I have come to my MacBook Pro and found it on the Enter Password boot screen after it decided to reboot overnight, and then helpfully tells me about the security update it did.
> Mac OS is not Windows, it doesn’t install automatically and the prompts are much more reasonable.
It does by default.
A huge pet peeve.
I don't think that's the biggest reason to upgrade to a new major (or even minor) version, especially when the previous release(s) are still supported for quite some time.
Catalina, macOS 10.15, for example, didn't stop being supported when Bug Sur, 11.0, was released. In fact, it will still be supported for quite some time. Mojave, 10.14, is supported until late next year and, High Sierra, 10.13, is still supported even today!
Unless there's some new feature that you absolutely just must have, there just really isn't any compelling enough reason for most folks to immediately upgrade to a new .0 release.
In the Windows world, the conventional wisdom -- for probably a decade and a half! -- has been to wait until after SP1 to move to a new major version.
Maybe the younger generation just hasn't been burned (bad) enough (yet) for them to learn not to touch the stove?
Sure can. But that's true only if these machines are part of IT's infrastructure, which is usually the case at large companies.
A lot of places are BYOD and don't have employee Macs on Active Directory.
For $20 bucks, any office or group with a spare Mac can use macOS Server to control this stuff: https://www.apple.com/macos/server/features/
Given some of the horrible security bugs found very shortly after the last few versions of MacOS were released... I strongly disagree.
The saying about known unknowns and unknown unknowns is quite relevant.
The update did take longer than indicated. At some points I wondered if both my iMac and mbp were not locked up, but as I was doing other things I just let them take their time. I wonder if those people rebooted mid update or some
If apple fixed a security bug in big sur, I'd like to update sooner rather than find out in a CVE next month that I should have actually upgraded ASAP.
That said, waiting at least a few days to see if any problems shake out is probably a good idea.
[0]: https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/10/guide-automatic-security-...