Undoubtedly, this will be one of the questions that more users ask themselves as soon as the Cupertino company officially releases the next version of its operating system for Mac. We already advance you that the question is somewhat complicated to answer and it will depend on many factors that we recommend Install the new version of macOS Catalina on your Mac from scratch or not.
Surely many of those present resort to this question in each of the new versions of macOS that are released every year and the answer is always similar in all cases answering himself with more questions.
Has it been a long time since you updated your equipment from scratch? Does macOS Mojave work fine? How long have you not installed macOS from scratch?
These would be three of the main questions in the form of an answer about installing zero on your computer. And it depends on the versions you have without installing from scratch the computer can drag a number of files, bugs and other things, so It is important to know from what date a clean installation of the system has not been carried out.
Then we can talk about the current operation of the team. Does the happy "little ball" come out of the rainbow many times? Do some apps or tools give you failure? Is the overall performance of your Mac good? Is your Mac very old? With these questions we get an idea of the need to install from scratch or not, what is clear is that it is not the same in all equipment so a generic answer is not going to help us.
The customs of the users is another of the answers we can give on this topic. Today and seeing the optimization of Apple OS it is no longer so important to do this installation from scratch but it is possible that you have that habit every time a new OS arrives and therefore the answer in that case is that you continue with it since it is not so difficult to do the clean installation and less when we have it at hand. On the other hand, there are users who do not have errors and therefore an installation on the current system will not affect the operation of the Mac. As I said at the beginning, it will depend on many factors, but at present it is no longer an obligatory task to perform an installation from scratch when a new version of the system arrives.
We are close to having this update available for Macs, and you Will you install from scratch or will you update your Mac directly?
Obviously when MacOS is 100% 64bits, without support for 32-bit applications, it would be advisable to do a clean installation, and remove all the garbage from useless libraries and programs.
From what it seems this will be Catalina, the first to block 32bits applications, rather, not be able to execute them.
I have a Mac 20-inch, Mid OS X 10.9.5 (13F1911) 2,26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 6 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory, NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB graphics and it does not allow updating to Catalina or anything …. how not to try a clean installation, if the apple itself forces you to do that ...