Catalina

I am way behind the curve when it comes to updating my Mac OS. One reason is some bad prior experience with peripherals no longer being supported after upgrading. Sometimes it looks like people at Canon believe that 1 year is an acceptable life span for a printer. I have to say that the last couple of years it hasn’t been all that bad. My multifunctional is still working although for scanning I now have to use preview as the Canon utility doesn’t work anymore since High Sierra. Anyway, I typically wait a year and then upgrade but this time around I even was 2 versions behind due to some concern about my photoprinter. When that one recently seems to have died on a hardware issue I had no more excuse. But I wasn’t pressed for time either. That changed last week when my solar powered Logitech keyboard started playing up and I decided to get myself the Master Series for Mac. That requires Mac OS 10.15 Catalina so yesterday I finally started the upgrade. So far so good. Upgrade took less than an hour and the multifunctional still works. By doing so I also fixed a few other app issues and I could for example upgrade to the latest Office version again which stopped sometime end of 2020. Some other software needs upgrading now and it looks like this will a lot take more time then the OS upgrade itself. Microsoft Office done, standard Mac apps done, Xcode ongoing. But all of that can run in the background so no big deal.