El Capitan

[Tony Scharf]

>>Odd ... I upgraded my main development machine to Windows 10 on the day of release and it has been an utter pleasure the whole time.  Everything worked first time and hasn't stopped working ... at all.  Even my MOTU Traveler.
I had quite a different experience.  My work desktop took it with no problems.  My Surface Pro 3 had major driver issues afterwards with its video card and its battery life was crap until I did a full hard reset (now it runs Win 10 just fine).  My home laptop ran it great for a while...then tanked (it's an old dell past its EOL...not really surprised).  The worst was my DAW which just flat refused to install it, and then wouldn't roll back to windows 7, rendering it unusable. 
Since I mainly only use cross platform software in my studio, and because I'd wanted to for years, I switched to an iMac in the studio.  Its been a pleasure so far, but I havent' made the mistake of upgrading to El Capitan (mainly because I've seen enough people who do that get burned).  My MOTU should work fine with EL Capitan, but better safe than sorry at this point.  Why upgrade if you don't have to?
>>I think one problem with the Windows world is that it relies on so many other companies and their software.
You're wrong in exactly the opposite way.  I don't think there is enough real competition at the top.  It's become perfectly acceptable for all of these companies to put out crap after crap and force their users into certain technologies (i.e. cloud) because they have simply no alternative.   
Tony
Subject: Re: El Capitan
To: music-bar at lists.music-bar.org
From: jammer at jammer.biz
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 12:55:53 +0100


  
    
  
  
    

    On 14/10/2015 18:37, Dennis Jameson
      wrote:

    
    
      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.


    
    

    Odd ... I upgraded my main development machine to Windows 10 on the
    day of release and it has been an utter pleasure the whole time. 
    Everything worked first time and hasn't stopped working ... at all. 
    Even my MOTU Traveler.

    

    I think one problem with the Windows world is that it relies on so
    many other companies and their software.

    

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