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My grandfather used to say, "The people who sit up front catch all the bugs in their teeth"

If you're trying to move your full desktop workflow to a platform that only added the option to work that way recently and as an afterthought compared to its original use-case, you're going to be catching bugs for quite a long time. If you're unlucky, your particular use-case for that hardware will never catch on enough for the value of working out those kinks to outweigh the cost.

I know techies like most of us on here love to be early adopters, but you have to draw a line between using tech as a toy and using it as a tool. If you're using something that you don't expect to be stable 99.9% of the time, odds are that it's a toy and you should hold your expectations a hell of a lot lower for any sort of productivity.




The problem is that in some cases you are forced to upgrade your tool and turn it into a toy. Windows 10 is an example. macOS Catalina (required for latest Xcode which itself is required to target latest iOS) is another one and I've been bitten by it.




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