macOS Catalina 10.15.5

Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by AlexandrB on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:47AM (#23323117)

Personally I'm staying the hell away from Catalina, but it's not like Windows is the land of milk & honey. I've lost overnight testing data multiple times thanks to Windows' hostile "we're rebooting right now, whether you want to or not" upgrade strategy, and their mandatory telemetry bullshit is well-known at this point.

Basically: Catalina sucks, but there's nowhere to go that's unequivocally better.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by PascLeRasc on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:08AM (#23323488)

Mojave will be good for a long, long time to come. I run El Capitan on one machine and it still gets security updates. Homebrew sometimes gets confused trying to find an El-Cap specific formula but that's usually fixable.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by Wowfunhappy on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:15AM (#23323603)

> I run El Capitan on one machine and it still gets security updates.

No, it doesn’t.

That caveat aside, if you can switch package managers, MacPorts explicitly supports older OS X releases (back to Tiger!) and thus may give you less problems.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by pmarreck on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:54AM (#23324270)

For non-Home Basic versions of Windows you can change the policy for this (which I've done, and which works well, for exactly the reasons you've mentioned):

https://www.techspot.com/guides/230-prevent-automatic-window...

You can also disable Cortana, the telemetry stuff etc. https://blogs.systweak.com/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data...

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by towndrunk on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:25AM (#23323780)

I know I post this often because I find it very useful.

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

You can disable the rebooting if you look in Default.preset file.

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