Subj : Re: OS/2
To   : Nightfox
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sun Nov 12 2023 23:15:06

  Re: Re: OS/2
  By: Nightfox to Bob Worm on Sun Nov 12 2023 12:19:40

Hi, Nightfox.

 > I've used Mac OS before, mostly for work, and in my experience, not
 > everything just works all the time.  I use Linux Mint at home for my BBS PC
 > (I also run Plex Media Server on it), and things have pretty much always
 > worked there for me.  Even upgrades to new versions of the OS have always
 > gone fairly smoothly.

Yeah, I will admit that upgrading my iMac to Big Sur absolutely screwed it. The in-place upgrade completely failed to the point where it couldn't boot and a from-scratch install was basically unusable. I legitimately thought something was physically wrong with it, perhaps the hard drive was about to fail or similar, but after abandoning it for a good while I wiped it clean and installed Ventura. Incredibly, it works like new again. Very strange...

To be fair, that's the only issue I've ever had but it was a biggie. As opposed to the continuous stream of minor niggles I had trying to use Linux as a desktop OS.

BobW
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