Apple macOS Catalina
By Edward Mendelson — PC Magazine — October 7, 2019The release of macOS Catalina, now available as a free download for everyone with a compatible Apple computer, adds efficiency, security, elegance, and smoothly integrated enhancements to the already-excellent Mojave version released last year. Catalina is the fifteenth release of what Apple used to call OS X, and, like earlier versions, builds on its solid and secure Unix-based foundation. As you'd expect, Catalina runs smoothly and reliably even in its first release, but—despite the many appealing new features in Catalina—cautious users may prefer to wait for the bug fixes in the first point release before updating an existing machine.
This is an excerpt, read more at the full review at PC Magazine’s Apple macOS Catalina Review.
One major advantage to how Apple has opened up and expanded their beta program - with a huge growth in consumers using the public betas - is that these major OS upgrades often have FAR fewer bugs than those released in the days before massive beta programs.