Still on Sierra on an MBP early 2011, Mojave on an MBP 2015 and my Hackintosh Z390 and Big Sur/Monterey on another Hackintosh, a Dell XPS 8930 I7 8700.
Apple Mail might suffer from some of the same vulnerabilities as Safari.
Unfortunately, Office isn’t updated anymore on Big Sur as you probably know. Now, it will work but new functionalities or security patches (I guess there could be attacks via Office docs) won’t be available to us.
.As long as you did your USB map correctly, it's likely a ventura thing. Optical drives have been in a slow decline for a while.
It’s indeed a new thing since Ventura. USB map work flawlessly on the Big Sur side but, sometimes, on Ventura, the external Pioneer refuses to respond after sleep. Unfortunately, it’s a random bug so, hard to pinpoint.
Regularly updated, free alternatives to Microsoft’s Office:
Thunderbird? Are you out of your mind friend? Almost suggesting using Linux. Yes Thunderbird if you don't mind using a byzantine hyper complicated and ugly email client. Stop the madness for God sake. Use Outlook but forget about turning your mac into a Ubuntu or Debian or Mint OS.
That's the way to go. Are people now having paranoia injected in their veins by also paranoid users that believe cruising the Net is safer with a 2 days patch and patch again in 5 days and again in 10 days? Don't use a computer, a phone and wifi and stay in 1976 then. This paranoid view is getting out of control.
