“Don’t think that public betas make software any better. They don’t,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes writes for ZDNet. “The only way to shake out the bugs from something as big as an operating system is real world usage.”
“It’s taken ten weeks and two major updates, but finally OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ is ready for prime time. I’ve now rolled it out to my work machines, and I’m pleased with the result,” Kingsley-Hughes writes. “Bugs – especially related to stability and connectivity – I can do without, especially on my workhorse systems, so I stuck with OS X 10.10 until the other day when Apple released the 10.11.2 update. I’d been keeping a close eye on the beta of this release and had found it to be promising. So when 10.11.2 was released, I took the plunge and upgraded all my work Macs.”
Kingsley-Hughes writes, “And they’re all running flawlessly.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Public betas actually do make software better. They just don’t usually squash all of the bugs.