os upgrade

[Masha Vecherkovskaya]

Thank you very much for your thoughts. The computer is a 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro, and it’s intel based wich makes me want to hold to it for as long as I can. I’m dreading the day I have to upgrade. Not upgraiding is now impacting daily tasks. It has so much stuff installed and working, so many workarounds around other workarounds. It will take ages to rebuild all of that. Some of the newer versions of the bioinformatics tools I use seem to be less reliable, at least on my workstation which runs Ubuntu. I still use iWeb to run website for students, and I know it can be done in another way, but at the moment it takes me just a couple of minuets to update the info for them. I used to uprade one OS behind current, waiting for stuff to settle. It wold have been easier to clone hard drive and keep it as a working copy in case everything falls apart, but it’s soldered in, so I’ll have to rely on time machine and hope everything goes well. 

Thank you. 


On 29 September 2024 at 12:27:42, Fabien Auréjac (fabien.aurejac at gmail.com) wrote:

Added to what said Richard,

you can also with OpenCore Legacy Patcher upgrade to some OS that is not officially supported by your computer, in the case it's an old mac.

Provided the computer is strong enough to handle the new OS, it may give a better lifetime...

Le 29/09/2024 à 03:34, Richard L. Hamilton a écrit :
The newest your hardware can handle, unless you have apps that require 32-bit support (for which Mojave is the last         OS version that has it) or that for some other reason will break in a newer OS. Don't be more than two or three behind (I think it's really years, somewhere in the 3 to 5 range) if you want at least security updates.  (don't expect much other updates for OS versions near the old end of what still gets security updates)

Exception: if you want less problems with MacPorts and don't want to be part of solving problems much, wait a few months on Sequoia; don't go later than Sonoma yet. The first few months of any new OS major version can have more pain for apps and software from anywhere, esp. open source software with lots of dependencies and mostly or totally unpaid volunteer support.

For software that is neither MacPorts nor Mac App Store, https://roaringapps.com/apps may provide some indication (if someone has reported! there are plenty of unknowns) whether listed apps will work on a given OS version. There may be other such sites, but that's the one I know about.


On Sep 28, 2024, at 21:13, Masha Vecherkovskaya <mashavecher at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all.

I’ve been putting off upgading from Mojave for as long as I could. But it seems inevitable at some near point. Which OS would you reccomend? 

Thank you. 

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