Upgraded to macOS 10.15 on my MacBook Pro
This morning I decided it was time to install macOS 10.15 Catalina on my personal MacBook Pro. There are plenty of folks warning about the loss of 32-bit apps, and I've done an inventory of what I'll loose, and I'm OK with all of those. Sure, I purchased some, but I've gotten a lot of good use out of them, and nothing I'm losing is not already replaced by something that's better.
So off I go to install the upgrade...
I will say, they underreported my 32-bit apps, but that's OK, I know I'll just go through my Applications folder after the update and trash what I no longer need - or can use. But that's OK... it's nice to remind people.
There are quite a few differences in macOS 10.15 - and System Preferences is one of the biggest. I don't mind that they need to make these changes, but the need for me to log out of iCloud, and then log back in seems to be a bit annoying - as it looses all my Apple Pay cards, etc., but I can easily put them back.
One of the two real issues is that Mail.app is different on the "Old School" split view, and now you can't control the headers - at all. No selection of which ones to show, or where to put them, or hoe big to make them... it's just "Here you are" - and we live with it. Maybe they'll put some of that configurability back - I sure hope so.
The second issue is with Adium, my IM Client that I use every single day to chat with folks. In this update, the text view of the chats doesn't auto-scroll to the bottom to show new lines on the view when new lines are added. I don't know if this is meant to be this way, or if it's something that you can change with Xcode - but it's kinda annoying, and I was hoping to find a more supported alternative. I may have to get the Adium code and rebuild it myself with a fix. There just aren't any really good alternatives.
I'm sure there will be a lot more... I had plenty of issues with the Apple subscriptions, but that's just a one-time annoyance... shouldn't be ongoing... but we will see.