I’m currently running Gramps 5.1.4.2 under Mac 10.14.6 (Mojave) on a “late 2014” model Mac mini, and I’m considering upgrading to Monterrey.
I understand from previous posts that there is/was an updated version of the 5.1.4 installer, as well as a new one for 5.1.5, and that everything seems to be fine.
My questions for the Mac+Gramps community are whether there are any considerations I should be aware of (besides backing up first, of course), and whether anyone is using hardware as old as mine (1.4GHz processor, 8GB memory).
I have a 21 inch iMac about the same age (late 2013) and am running Mojave. I found that when I updated to Mojave, things slowed down in general. I decided after that upgrade not to update further. I don’t know if Monterey would even work on it.
Recently, I got a new macbook (Apple Silicon). I run gramps 5.1.4 on both and see the new system is faster, but the old system works well enough.
Personally, unless there was a driving reason that I had to update the old (10.x) system to 11.x, I am not sure I would - what is the advantage given there will be more OS bloat.
Thanks @GaryGriffin. I declined upgrading to Catalina and Big Sur for the same reason (no compelling new features, just more bloat), but if Mojave is no longer supported then I thought I’d better upgrade sometime. And from the link you provided, it appears that Monterrey will be the last possible upgrade for my mini. Since Gramps is the main non-Apple app that I use on it, I just wanted to make sure there were no issues.
There’s another reason I was thinking about it, but I’ll start a new thread for that discussion because it’s really a different topic.