“Upgrade” MacBook Pro M1 Pro from Ventura to Monterey

[gadje]

I had that M1 Pro machine for a few months now but didn’t really used it.
It was from my old job, nuke and paved to Ventura.
I hear Ventura kind of sucks… so maybe I install Monterey and start using it.

What is the best or the cleanest way to get rid of Ventura?

I don’t have any data, no backup required.

I think I boot from Recovery but I haven’t actually tried that process in ages.

[gadje]

I mean I could take the train and go see and help gabster with his macs.

miley-laughing001:

[GGD]

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Ventura,...California

[jonny]

Don't waste your time. Ventura is fine.

[gadje]

GGD wrote:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Ventura,...California

miley-laughing001:

[vision63]

gadje wrote:
[quote=GGD]
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Ventura,...California

miley-laughing001:
It's a fun route too.

[mattkime]

Run the most recent OS unless you have a VERY specific reason not to.

[modelamac]

gadje,

One of the things you might miss is the ability to set boot and shutdown times WITHOUT using Terminal.

One of the things I like is that quite a few of the iPhone/iPad apps will run quite well in M1 Ventura. I am running 3 Macs on Ventura, and have found no changes I cannot live with.

[ka jowct]

I put a whole bunch of links into a thread recently. Ventura is NOT fine, IMO, but maybe it won't annoy you as much as it did me. The more iOS features creep into the MacOS, the less I like it.

I'm booting from a Monterey external on the one M1 machine here.

De-Ventura your Mac

[gabester]

To me the only way to be sure you've really gotten Ventura off your Mac is to use DFU mode to restore your desired version of Monterey.

But if that's impractical for some reason (like the inscrutable special key combo you need to hit to get the Mac booted into DFU mode), get the latest installer, make your external bootable USB drive (which you can't boot your Apple Silicon Mac with anyway, but it's nice to think you could boot an older Mac) and then after you boot into Recovery on the Mac you want to move back to Monterey, erase the disk fully in Disk Utility, and then open the Terminal and run:

/Volumes/Install\ macOS\ Monterey\Install\ macOS\ Monterey.app\Contents\MacOS\InstallAssistant_springboard

As far as taking a train to meet me, maybe take a cab instead... Might be less confusing.