Yes, you can install any version of macOS that was ever supported for your Mac. (It’s been a long time since they used System Enablers.) I’m so frustrated with Tahoe that I’m about to do this.
Yes, you can install any version of macOS that was ever supported for your Mac. (It’s been a long time since they used System Enablers.) I’m so frustrated with Tahoe that I’m about to do this.
Safari can't be upgraded past a certain point on older versions of macOS. That can cause certain websites to break. Minor but annoying.
That's where the WebKit previews come in handy, if you stick to a preview version you know matches a stable version.
But you cannot, in general, migrate your data backwards. Apple's system apps will upgrade their data stores forward only. This isn't a problem if you are willing to e.g. re-download all of your (Mail.app) mail.
> But you cannot, in general, migrate your data backwards. Apple's system apps will upgrade their data stores forward only.
One huge reason to use third-party programs where possible. I dislike Apple's tight coupling of utilities as it is.
Yep, that's a great workaround, as long as you have third-party apps you're happy with.
Yep, though you can mitigate it a little bit in various ways. For one weird example, I keep my main user Home folder on my NAS and mount it via iSCSI. Mostly that's for data integrity/size/backup purposes, but it does also make it free to snapshot before trying out a system upgrade. If I hate it I can rollback my entire set of user data along with the OS.
Though amongst many other wonderful things lost in the mysts of Mac history I still desperately miss NetBoot/NetInstall and ultra easy clone/boot with something like CCC and TDM. It's so fucking miserable now in comparison to do reinstalls/testing/restores.
I generally just “reload” everything.