“The other day I read an article from someone who was basically warning us off OS X El Capitan,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “While he hadn’t actually installed the new OS, he cited threads on Apple’s discussions forums describing a litany of problems that included incompatible apps and the inability to access external drives.”
“I did check the Apple discussions and found lots of problems, precisely as the blogger stated. But not all of them had large numbers of participants reporting similar problems,” Steinberg writes. “Unless a problem is fairly consistent, it may be the result of a system oddity with a few installations. It takes more than that to take it seriously, but the article makes no attempt to weigh the importance of those complaints.”
“My personal experience with El Capitan at this early stage is mostly solid. Mail has a tendency to briefly stall, but will resume normal operation in less than 30 seconds. Maybe it’s about background processing of large message folders, but I’m shooting from the hip,” Steinberg writes. “El Capitan strikes me as a pretty solid release.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Very few issue with OS X El Capitan here (some with Safari 9.0 involving some sites constantly pestering for login credentials than did not happen with previous Safari versions, but that’s about it overall), how about you?
Running it since WWDC and it has been stable with my three Macs throughout the betas AND the public version. Would recommend it to anyone.
Apparently, El Capitan also doesn’t play nice with the current crop of Adobe Creative Cloud apps, including Illustrator (which my office relies on) and Premiere Pro (which it doesn’t). Lots of finger-pointing on Adobe boards blaming Apple and Adobe for not having apps ready to go upon El Capitan’s launch.
Personally, I’m waiting for the dot-one release before even thinking of upgrading my non-work machines, and waiting for the next Adobe updates before I touch my work machines…
Good call on the Adobe apps update. Seems the big names (M$, Adobe, etc.) are slacking (as usual). I occasionally use Illustrator so might have to check that before upgrading at .1. I like your strategy.
Installed it, found out that Capture One didn’t work, reverted back to Yosemite. Apple has a history of changing things and then other programs don’t work.
As far as I’m concerned Yosemite works much better then El Cap since all my programs work on Yosemite.
Is this a joke?
Enjoying smooth sailing – here to there.
Users of Finale and associated software have been warned not to upgrade until “conflicts” are resolved.
Mail sucks. Drafts count will suddenly balloon by a factor of 10. Emails don’t show up as quickly as on the phone, despite the badge changing count. Emails will disappear and reappear. It crashes.
Maybe it’s a GoDaddy issue, but that seems like to easy an out.