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Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by catalogia on Sunday February 02, 2020 @07:04PM (#22220392)
I don't understand the motivation of "works for me" comments like this.

Is your point that you believe other people are just hallucinating their problems, or that you believe they've 'used it wrong' and brought problems on themselves, or that if you personally haven't experienced a bug, then it's not an important bug?

Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by Terretta on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:57AM (#22224117)
> Is your point that you believe other people are just hallucinating their problems...?

It happens when the sightings are emotional. For instance:

The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren’t Real

The mysterious drone sightings that captured national attention were a classic case of mass hysteria.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/884xv3/the-colorado-myste...

Flip side of same phenomenon is the "snappier" meme.

Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by zwily on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:42AM (#22224479)
I personally like seeing the “works for me” posts. It helps me gauge if the reported problems are universal, or just hitting a subset, which helps me decide when to roll the upgrade dice.

BTW, I did finally upgrade to Catalina last week and it’s been going fine, with the exception of losing 50% of my Steam library to the 32-bit graveyard....

Re:Is Catalina a Good Upgrade Yet? by macinjosh on Monday February 03, 2020 @12:26PM (#22226403)
I believe the vast majority of people, even those on hacker news, have no idea how their computer works. Mosy of the time PEBKAC is the problem.

When someone loses their data because they don't know how to use a computer it is easy to just blame the vendor.