I don't see the point of keeping OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 on my MacBook Pro, Core i5, software is so old SSL certificates are out of date, I can't update neither the stock software or any application - eviltoast

MacBook Pro, Core i5, 2.8 GHz (I5-4308U), model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13", MacBookPro11,1, RAM 8 GB, VRAM 1.5 GB, Storage 512 GB SSD

vlc, tor, brave, firefox… are apps that I cannot download. Neither can I use mac’s app store, because software is too old.

What would be the point of not nuking this OS X?

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    I would not use an old version of macOS. Not only insecure but more and more apps won’t work with it.

    You could use a “modified” version of macOS to install a newer release on your machine. The performance may not be great.

    I have a 2008 iMac, 2009 MacBook Pro, 2012 MacBook Pro, and 2017 MacBook Pro that all run Linux.

    Linux on old hardware flies. You may be surprised. Also, you can run totally up-to-date versions of everything. My 2008 Mac is running the version of Firefox released 4 days ago.

    Unless there is some Mac only software you absolutely must have, get macOS off there.

    [Edit: You did it say what hardware you have but, if you are on Yosemite, your hardware must be 2009 or older as well. I run XFCE on EndeavourOS for what that is worth. ]