OS angst
It had to happen, sooner or later, and I did know that. Eventually, I was going to find software I was interested in using that won't run under my old but stable and efficient OS 10.5.8. And now it has happened: if I even want to try the demo for Tinderbox, I need to upgrade to 10.6.1
I should probably think about doing this anyway, or at least about acquiring the installation disks for Snow Leopard, because the more I hear about 10.7/Lion and 10.8/Mountain Lion, the more violent my DNW reaction becomes. So assuming the machines will continue to allow for it, it seems horribly inevitable to me that next time I need a new computer, my first act upon getting it home will have to be wiping 10.13/Sabertooth Catamount off the thing, reformatting, and installing Snow Leopard. By which time the latter will no longer be available from Apple, so better to make sure I have it now.
Still, the whole idea makes me more than a little uncomfortable. I like 10.5.8. There are things it won't do, but up to now they haven't been things I wanted (do I care about the App Store? no, I do not). And the reports on upgrading to 10.6 I've seen haven't been universally enthusiastic (though to be fair, it turns out that a lot of comments masquerading as bad reviews of 10.6 turn out on examination to actually be complaints about 10.7).
So as usual, I come to you all for advice. Does anyone have experience with this particular upgrade, which you likely did years and years ago? If so, is there anything in particular one needs to watch out for, and will I be sorry if I do it?
1Not that doing so now will really help, because by the time I got hold of the physical disk from Apple, the Tinderbox sale would be over. And Tinderbox isn't exactly inexpensive software; even on sale it's not the sort of thing you buy on a whim. Not on sale, I'm not sure it's the sort of thing I ever buy. But the principle remains: this isn't going to be the last time this ever happens.
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I should probably think about doing this anyway, or at least about acquiring the installation disks for Snow Leopard, because the more I hear about 10.7/Lion and 10.8/Mountain Lion, the more violent my DNW reaction becomes. So assuming the machines will continue to allow for it, it seems horribly inevitable to me that next time I need a new computer, my first act upon getting it home will have to be wiping 10.13/Sabertooth Catamount off the thing, reformatting, and installing Snow Leopard. By which time the latter will no longer be available from Apple, so better to make sure I have it now.
Still, the whole idea makes me more than a little uncomfortable. I like 10.5.8. There are things it won't do, but up to now they haven't been things I wanted (do I care about the App Store? no, I do not). And the reports on upgrading to 10.6 I've seen haven't been universally enthusiastic (though to be fair, it turns out that a lot of comments masquerading as bad reviews of 10.6 turn out on examination to actually be complaints about 10.7).
So as usual, I come to you all for advice. Does anyone have experience with this particular upgrade, which you likely did years and years ago? If so, is there anything in particular one needs to watch out for, and will I be sorry if I do it?
1Not that doing so now will really help, because by the time I got hold of the physical disk from Apple, the Tinderbox sale would be over. And Tinderbox isn't exactly inexpensive software; even on sale it's not the sort of thing you buy on a whim. Not on sale, I'm not sure it's the sort of thing I ever buy. But the principle remains: this isn't going to be the last time this ever happens.
This entry was crossposted from Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there, with openID or whatever works for you.