macOS Big Sur

[AstonJ]

@foxtrottwist

For most things it was fine. I had some issues installing Erlang via asdf. I wasn’t sure if that was due to running the beta. But when trying to install via Homebrew, there was a warning about Big Sur not being supported and that I would have build failures.

That being said Erlang and Elixir seem to run just fine

It’s not my main dev machine. I could have avoided issues due to not using it as heavily.

Screwing up my dev env would be a pain, especially this time of year when I have a lot on. Glad yours is working ok but I might hold off till the new year

@iPaul

I will also probably use an external SSD to try Big Sur first, if I’m satisfied I will install it on the internal SSD. Using an external SSD to test a new release is straightforward with macOS.

I’ve never thought of doing that! I have a few external SSDs so might try that, haha - thanks for the idea Paul!

For major versions what I usually do is backup (to be on the safe side) > upgrade - and if everything is working fine for a few days I then do a clean install as per my notes here.

@iPaul

I’ve always preferred to do a clean install, less cruft and the system is usually faster.

How does your clean install method differ to mine Paul? Presumably after a clean install you dont’t do a migration afterwards, but copy everything over and reinstall programs etc? (Here’s how I do mine: How to do a clean macOS install – without Migration Assistant!)