If you have a choice, or have important editing work to do: I would recommend to wait until the first patch has arrived.
Look at the forum so far, a number of questions about behavior, some -it must be said- due to the changes and simplifications in the UI, others were clearly waiting for the wider audience testing.
So far working with 19 after a ca 9 hours download period, I have experienced a number of program crashes, some even without PD to catch the error and allow reporting... (I have reported those back to CL with error information retrieved from system level).
Having said that, my general impression is that the program works fairly well.

Quote If you have a choice, or have important editing work to do: I would recommend to wait until the first patch has arrived.
Look at the forum so far, a number of questions about behavior, some -it must be said- due to the changes and simplifications in the UI, others were clearly waiting for the wider audience testing.
So far working with 19 after a ca 9 hours download period, I have experienced a number of program crashes, some even without PD to catch the error and allow reporting... (I have reported those back to CL with error information retrieved from system level).
Having said that, my general impression is that the program works fairly well.

I agree with you, Warry. Waiting makes a lot of sense. I did that with PD18 Ultimate, and it was smooth sailing for me. Thanks for the info.

Quote So far working with 19 after a ca 9 hours download period, I have experienced a number of program crashes, some even without PD to catch the error and allow reporting... (I have reported those back to CL with error information retrieved from system level).

I don't have any active projects and so far I've only used it to answer forum questions. I haven't had a single crash though, and I wonder if you might have noticed any pattern to when PD19 was more likely to crash and/or when the crash report window appeared/didn't appear.

I think the downside of the subscription model is that it gets pushed out and there's really no way to roll back the update if anything goes wrong. So far I've only seen one thread from someone who's had a serious issue possibly related to PD19 showing up in the middle of editing a complex project, but there may be more out there. I just used the feedback channel to suggest a Win10-style rollback option for the App Manager.

This also seems like PD19 is a fairly modest change from PD18, with the focus more on tidying up some UI items and modernizing the transition and FX animations (which I really like). There aren't that many completely new features, and maybe that has kept the number of potentially serious bugs lower than it otherwise would have been.