HACKER Q&A
📣 icodemuch

Is it safe to update to macOS Catalina (10.15.3)?


When Catalina first came out, HN was flooded with articles about how bad it was. Now, a few weeks later, is it safe to update my mac? I've backed up everything, but would still hate to have my personal laptop performing on a subpar level when I need it for photoshop, iterm2, xcode, firefox, etc.


  👤 Znafon Accepted Answer ✓
We just got bite by a bug were Catalina would randomly delete some Wireguard tunnels. A temporary workaround to restore them has been published in the Wireguard client but Catalina doesn't feel stable at the moment.

👤 actionowl
It depends on what all you use, at least GPGTools Mail plugin and MacOS FUSE (At least SSHFS) still don't support Catalina.

👤 slipwalker
i am running the Catalina 10.15.1 both on a Macbook pro retina 13 inch early 2015 and an iMac Retina 4K 21.5 inch 2017. For java/kotlin/angular/node/typescript/flutter development and system admin tasks.

Both run a lot better than Mojave ever did.


👤 gshdg
Avoid it if you use Mail.app. Otherwise doesn’t seem too bad. Performance isn’t an issue.

👤 frou_dh
10.15.2 is not even released yet, never mind 10.15.3

👤 chatmasta
Curious if anyone is running it on a mid 2013 air?

👤 copperfitting
I would rather prefer windows

👤 tez12
my recommendation is to wait until it will become stable, if you dont need any particular new behave.