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Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update,

From Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update,
Date 2020-08-16 18:11 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <rhbpbp$8go$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <vKYYG.136549$hs5.30134@fx05.ams1> <hpj4p6F216tU1@mid.individual.net> <5tZYG.326913$qj7.73529@fx04.ams1> <rh215c$gh2$1@reader1.panix.com> <TY9_G.115550$mK4.1695@fx03.iad>

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On 16/08/2020 13:50, Bud Frede wrote:
> briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) writes:
> 
>> In article <5tZYG.326913$qj7.73529@fx04.ams1>,
>>> 	[...]
>>> I've now downloaded and installed the update.
>>>
>>> All seems to be working just fine!
>>>
>>
>> Same here :-)
> 
> My brother (a Mac owner since '85) has complained about this
> recently. He said that he has become gun-shy about updates to Mac OS
> since High Sierra, and especially with Mojave and Catalina.
> 
> It does seem kind of strange to me that people are posting, "I updated
> my Mac and it's working fine!" as if that is an uncommon thing.

No I don't think so - I think it is because otherwise all you see is 
"Catalina hosed my Mac" (or whatever). Seeing positive results is helpful.

> It does still seem strange to me that my computer is unusable for a half
> hour or so every time I have to apply an OS update. It's better than the
> sucky way Windows does it, but I haven't run Windows as a daily driver
> in years so Windows updates are things that happen to other people. :-)

MacOS updates are really rather slower than I feel they should be, given 
everything's happening on SSDs.

-- 
Chris

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  Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2020-08-12 21:20 +0000
    Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-12 22:48 +0100
      Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, briang@panix.com (Brian Gordon) - 2020-08-13 00:23 +0000
        Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-08-16 08:50 -0400
          Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-16 14:58 +0100
          Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2020-08-16 18:11 +0100
  Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2020-08-12 20:33 -0500
  Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-08-13 09:10 +0000
    Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-08-13 17:59 +0100
    Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2020-08-13 19:51 +0100
      Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-08-14 15:56 +0000
        Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2020-08-15 12:53 +0000
          Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, Tim <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2020-08-15 14:10 +0000
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              Re: Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Supplemental Update, John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> - 2020-08-16 11:21 +0000
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