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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1837941" data-attributes="member: 396914">I read that. Interesting read. My Macs are all pretty &quot;vanilla,&quot; in that I stay inside my own folder, don't add a lot of system extensions, and just use the system as it comes. And my upgrade to Catalina went very smoothly. I have one bug, which appeared before Catalina, and that is that if you open Mail, then enter Time Machine, it starts to show how you can restore a prior version of Mail, but then Mail immediately crashes out. I had not noticed it, but in researching, it was first reported 3-4 years ago and has not been fixed by Apple to date. Maybe nobody is complaining.I think that when Steve Jobs said, &quot;It just works,&quot; he was referring to what Apple built and installed, that is, the hardware and OS. He was signalling to those of us in the Windows world that what we were doing (Constantly fiddling with the OS, constantly messing with the Registry, having to run antivirus software, constantly tinkering with the OS) was not necessary. A properly built system would &quot;just work&quot; without all that &quot;tuning&quot; and tweaking. I remember when I first got my original iMac I was still in the &quot;tinker&quot; mode, but pretty soon I learned to just let it work. Sticking to vanilla makes that better.&nbsp; And my &quot;reward&quot; is that my updates and upgrades have all been pretty stress free. And for the most part, &quot;It just works.&quot;In reading that article, I kept thinking, &quot;Why would anybody do that?&quot; about all the changes that the author thought might complicate the upgrade to Catalina. &quot;It just works,&quot; is still pretty true, in context.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1837941, member: 396914"] I read that. Interesting read. My Macs are all pretty "vanilla," in that I stay inside my own folder, don't add a lot of system extensions, and just use the system as it comes. And my upgrade to Catalina went very smoothly. I have one bug, which appeared before Catalina, and that is that if you open Mail, then enter Time Machine, it starts to show how you can restore a prior version of Mail, but then Mail immediately crashes out. I had not noticed it, but in researching, it was first reported 3-4 years ago and has not been fixed by Apple to date. Maybe nobody is complaining. I think that when Steve Jobs said, "It just works," he was referring to what Apple built and installed, that is, the hardware and OS. He was signalling to those of us in the Windows world that what we were doing (Constantly fiddling with the OS, constantly messing with the Registry, having to run antivirus software, constantly tinkering with the OS) was not necessary. A properly built system would "just work" without all that "tuning" and tweaking. I remember when I first got my original iMac I was still in the "tinker" mode, but pretty soon I learned to just let it work. Sticking to vanilla makes that better. And my "reward" is that my updates and upgrades have all been pretty stress free. And for the most part, "It just works." In reading that article, I kept thinking, "Why would anybody do that?" about all the changes that the author thought might complicate the upgrade to Catalina. "It just works," is still pretty true, in context. [/QUOTE]

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