- Joined
- Dec 3, 2014
- Messages
- 97
- Motherboard
- Intel DX58SO
- CPU
- W3680
- Graphics
- Vega 56
- Mac
Catalina will do a house cleaning on your system before it start the installation. Any customized setting file/or modified file in system space and 32 bits apps will be saved into a folder for you. Some of the system files are even renamed with filename_previous and kept in the system space, no idea why, there's quite a lots of them, and it make the system look uncleaned, recommending fresh install Catalina is way to go. Even apple own app fcpx trial stop working with the beta, go figure!
any time an operating system has a fundamental major shift in the kernel .. like the shift from power PC to intel... really best to start from scratch
osx is lightyears better to work with than windows on updates and upgrades and much less detritus floating around.. but catalina with abandon so much crap in the 'protected' space at best... screw with stability at worse.. that its just not worth the hassle ... not to mention that the engineers can't test for every possible eventuality, especially with hacks.. that there is no way of knowing what is and is not being transitioned properly