I'm normally on about 1 year delay on upgrading macOS for a multitude of reasons. I might not wait the full year but something else will have to force me to upgrade within the first few months.

I'd heard from people who were running the betas that it's not ready and they are surprised Tahoe wasn't delayed.

No way I'm upgrading any time soon to Apple's least cared for OS with a change this big (and this untested).

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stouset 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'll be honest, I hear this every single time. But I've never delayed upgrading, and I've never regretted it. That's not to say every upgrade has been a strict improvement, but going back to my first Mac at 10.4 (Tiger) I've never wished I had stayed on an older version. We'll see how I feel after going to Tahoe, maybe this will be the one that breaks the trend.

Windows, on the other hand…

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joshstrange 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You always have to be moving forward and I'll never say "I'll just stay on Sequoia for forever" but delaying a bit does make life easier. I know I'll eventually upgrade but being there day 1 or even month 1 is not something I'm interested in. There are never new features that outweigh sending my development workflows into disarray or dealing with broken apps.

There aren't always huge issues or huge time sinks but I'm happy to let other people be on the bleeding edge and I'll upgrade once the Github issues, blog posts, etc have been created/fixed so that when I upgrade I can easily find solutions to any remaining issues I might run into. Especially with Tahoe, I've heard that some apps are just broken, period, unless the developer makes (sometimes significant) changes to get the same functionality working again (that was working fine in Sequoia).

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Aurornis 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> But I've never delayed upgrading, and I've never regretted it.

I was the same way for until one of the upgrades, I forget which, broke resume from suspend about 10-20% of the time for my combination of laptop and monitor. Every morning I’d get a sense of dread when I tried to open the laptop to see if today was a day where I’d get to pick up where I left off or if I was in for a crash and reboot as soon as I tried to use the laptop.

I thought for sure it would be fixed with one of the point updates, but it went on for the better part of a year.

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baq 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You obviously haven't had firewall issues with EDR software a couple years ago or so.

I won't ever touch a .0 macos release again.

	▲	masklinn 19 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That’s from the old lore and I’m surprised so many have forgotten it. I learned that back when we had to buy upgrades on physical media, .0 is .no.
	▲	avazhi 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Wasn’t this sequoia?

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swader999 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same here, I'm not dogfooding this for Apple, I pay them enough already.

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kilroy123 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't wait a full _year_, but I definitly give it many months before upgrading. This one I might wait longer...