El Capitan

[Dennis Jameson]

Thanks everyone for all the responses and varying experiences reported regarding the update to El Capitan. I don't have any NI products or other major software or hardware (audio or otherwise) so I'm probably safe to upgrade but at this time I think I'll wait until the first point release happens (i.e. 10.11.1) to install to make sure the worst of the bugs are ironed out. I never thought my simple question would elucidate so many replies from the music-bar.

As an aside, since Peter decided to point out the link to Microsoft's Windows 10 features (either as a joking troll post or seriously), here's my experience with Windows 10 so far. It's just as bad/buggy as people in this thread are saying El Capitan is. I was helping a retired coworker setup wireless on her brand spanking new, made for Windows 10 HCL approval sticker attached, pre installed with Windows 10 laptop and it was an utter piece of shite & headaches. Wi-Fi worked for one day after I helped her set it up and then proceeded to stop working again. Ended up having to download a Wi-Fi device driver from the manufacturer's website to get it working again. Which was a pain in the a$$ because this laptop is so small it doesn't have an Ethernet port. Which meant going to a second PC (thankfully we were at work so there were plenty others around) and having to copy the driver to a flash drive. After installing the driver using the flash drive Wi-Fi worked again (for a few days at least), before not working anymore. She even returned it back to the store for the same model and had some of the same issues again.

Lesson learned: don't upgrade OS'es or hardware that has a new OS installed on it until most bugs have been worked out.

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