Installing A Preferred Mac OS

Any OS upgrade has the potential to break some existing function or feature. I believe developers do their best to avoid those pitfalls.

But keeping the macOS updated can extend the useful productive life of the hardware, if only by introducing security updates to keep pace with advances and changes in technical standards. For example, a 2012 MacBook running Catalina has a longer useful life than one running Mountain Lion or Sierra.

You may not find newer feature to be desirable, and you don't have to use them if you don't wish to. But the future is a moving target and updates and upgrades are the only way to get there.

We are very pleased things finally were sorted out for you and by you 😎

Good work there 👍

Will attempted to pass along your message to my learned colleague @ BDAqua

Thank you

Oh well, still good work on your part my friend, take care!:)

Thank you for your useful experience.

Please note you were simply a victim of hidden information.

You might avoid other potential victims who could try useless macOS upgrades, and waste time :).

Zorba_le_grec wrote:

This is a huge risk, a huge waste of time, a huge deception.

Are you familiar with the definitions of the words "hyperbole" and "histrionic?"

Safari is usually the1st Browser to go out of date & no longer updated.:(

Might try this, it's Chrome Browser without google & without Ads...

https://brave.com/

Or FireFox.

@IdrisSeabright: The upgrades @bdphourde did were useless simply because the function ( 3 fingers drag ) already existed, but simply in another

`System Preferences...` bringing him to waste a lot of time ( most probably many hours, perhaps one full day ), perhaps break some other working functions in the process.

This is a huge risk, a huge waste of time, a huge deception.

This is an important lesson all editors of software, as for example a full operating system, should learn

before making sexy or tricky changes which will make their users waste a lot of time in useless upgrades.

Zorba_le_grec wrote:

You might avoid other potential victims who could try useless macOS upgrades, and waste time :).

But the upgrades weren't useless in this case....