High Sierra OK?

[Sam3]

I have a mid-2014 15" MBP which is running Sierra, a mid-2010 13" MBP on Yosemite, and a mid-2010 iMac that just had a new hard drive put in it. I tried installing Sierra onto it, but got an error that I haven't been able to figure out yet (it may be my installer USB stick that is the problem). So... I was thinking about just going ahead and installing High Sierra onto it, and then follow with installing High Sierra onto both MBP's.

Have a good portion of the bugs been worked out of High Sierra? Is High Sierra worth installing now? I've heard pro and con and wonder what your experiences are with it.

[Zoidberg]

My setup is a Late 2013 MacBook Pro (retina) with a 1TB SSD and 16GB RAM. I primarily use Adobe CC and Filemaker Pro along with a handful of other apps (BBEdit, Sandvox, etc.) in my daily work.

After staying away from it for half a year, I took the plunge and installed it early in March. No problems, and everything running smoothly. Beachball occurrences are down *drastically* for me.

I'll still say it's best to wait for an x.x.1 or x.x.2 release when these things come out, but as long as your main work apps are updated and working (check places like RoaringApps and forums for those particular apps) you should be okay.

[Kraniac]

I'm thinking it's ok if it's your only OS..it does NOT play nicely if you have other disks with older OS's that you boot from..it's currently driving me nuts along with regular Sierra..

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Has Apple fixed all the issues with APFS? Does it require updating the firmware past what you currently have?

[sekker]

I would get a test external drive, install HS on it, and make sure all of the main apps you need work.

We have several legacy apps that are never going to be updated for HS, so we will be keeping some Sierra OS environments around for awhile. Maybe as virtual machines, etc.

I have two colleagues running HS - HS doesn't look any more stable than Sierra, plenty of glitches still with Office 2016/Office 365, and Apple iWork apps.

One other issue to keep in mind. HS breaks target disk mode. So if that's important to you, stick to Sierra. But you have good backups, right?

[Sarcany]

I have another suggestion that I'll explain below.

HS works pretty well from a clean install. Make a good backup, erase your boot drive and install HS from a standalone installer vol (USB flash drive or external HD).

...And HS doesn't break target mode. It breaks installs via target mode. Because it does firmware updates during the install process and that's not gonna work in target mode.

Where you might get confused on the subject is when you try to connect a HS Mac to a Mac running an older OS via target mode. If the HS Mac has a APFS boot vol then it won't mount.

[graylocks]

Kraniac wrote:
I'm thinking it's ok if it's your only OS..it does NOT play nicely if you have other disks with older OS's that you boot from..it's currently driving me nuts along with regular Sierra..

what do you mean by this? i have an older OS on a subdivided external drive because the version of Quickbooks i have doesn't work in Sierra. i boot into the older OS a few times a year. this past week i discovered a glitch in MoneyDance that affects the ability to print in Sierra and the Infinite Kind's solution is to tell us to upgrade to High Sierra. i only need to print from MD during tax season and i did find a workaround for now but are you saying i should not upgrade to HS at all if i still need the QuickBooks/older OS set up?