Tbh I don't care about all the fanciest new features, as long as it runs well. I'm hoping Monterey will be an improvement over Big Sur, but I know Apple is kind of leaving intel macs behind a bit. There are some nice parts of Big Sur, but Mojave is still the finest of Apple's more recent Mac operating systems. It's worth it even though the UI is a bit uglier now lol. Turning off transparency, increasing font size where possible, and turning on "increase contrast" has made it fairly decent to read the text on, so it's no longer causing as much eyestrain. It's not well adapted for non-retina screens at all (yeah, not the only bad decision I made buying this in 2017 lol), and the fonts being blurry is a major problem for me since I have poor eyesight and do a lot of coding and reading. I haven't been using it long enough to get any major problems, except that lossless audio causes these horrific crackling audio pops in Apple Music. It actually runs much better than Catalina on my SSD, but not quite as well as Mojave. So I bit the bullet and upgraded back up to Big Sur. It was slower than Mojave and had written a ridiculous amount to my SSD in that short period of time. Tried Catalina for all of a half day but I didn't like it much. Recently, I updated my iMac with an SSD and decided I wanted to try Catalina because I wasn't able to fully sync some of my apps. A few months ago, I updated to Big Sur after I bought an M1 MBA to better sync them, then almost immediately downgraded because it was running very slow on the HD. For ages I kept using it on my 2017 iMac. I think it was Catalina which made us have to do that. There were a time when we had to “convert” all those to a newer MacOS. There may be iMessage issues to consider if you have more than one Apple device. Read a bit about the differences between Mojave and Catalina before you decide which one you take. But I do use the Sidecar thing (on the two newest Macs). Big Sur does nothing for me and newer MacOS versions will focus on M1 and newer processors and hardware. They are going to stay on Catalina forever. So make sure that important data really are safe somewhere before you downgrade. But be aware of Time Machine on Big Sur vs Mojave/Catalina. So Mojave will be good enough on that front. Mojave was the first MacOS to use the new APFS file system for Mac. There were some useful features in Catalina (depending on the age of your device, of course. And so will Monterey do until this time next year. Big Sur is still causing problems for some. It takes about a year for a MacOS version to work properly.
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