Any Regrets for upgrading to El Capitan?

[sovereign]

On my 2009 MBP the CPU is heating up and fans run all the time when using VLC or watching any video content online. This is a clean install and everything runs well, except for this fan issue. Also, the fans continue to run when in sleep, as others are pointing out. I had to shut it down last night.

 

[buzzynga]

Wondering if any of you who took the plunge and upgraded already. Do you have any regrets or is there any major app that will not run? I am just curious. I have held off from installing to see how many of you have problems.

Major regrets.. Chrome doesn't work.. I've tried a ton of things, and the only thing that has worked for me is to use Firefox/Safari.. Not a happy chap at the moment.. Too many passwords saved in Chrome..

Bluetooth Issues galore as well..

 

[hallux]

Major regrets.. Chrome doesn't work.. I've tried a ton of things, and the only thing that has worked for me is to use Firefox/Safari.. Not a happy chap at the moment.. Too many passwords saved in Chrome..

Bluetooth Issues galore as well..

What about Chrome isn't working? Mine works just dandy, using Chrome right now.

 

[buzzynga]

What about Chrome isn't working? Mine works just dandy, using Chrome right now.

#3 this..

 

[Sonnto]

No regrets (yet). Some stutter and lag some times for Mission Control, switching desktops, and scrolling (on all apps) but it usually goes away after a while. Other than that, I pretty much use stalk apps. Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are literally just there for me to open their respective files and for school. I hope the future iterations of El Capitan smoothens it out even more, optimizes it more, and makes it more efficient. I'll be a happy camper then.

 

[WilliamDu]

Wondering if any of you who took the plunge and upgraded already. Do you have any regrets or is there any major app that will not run? I am just curious. I have held off from installing to see how many of you have problems.

 

[WilliamDu]

Lots of regrets. Lots of major problems. Restart hangs several minutes sometimes. Office 2008 apps very slow. Both my early 2013 3TB Turbo drive iMac and wife's early 2014 iMac freezing and lots of beachballs here and there. Everything including startup from sleep very slow. Recommend hold off upgrade for a couple of upgrades to El Capitan. It's a mess on our iMacs. Had to power off to restart after computer froze in Excel.

 

[pastrychef]

I updated my Mac Pro the second day El Capitan was available. The only reason why I didn't upgrade on the first day was because I was waiting for Nvidia to release their web drivers for my GTX 980 video card.

Regrets? None at all. It's bee a solid upgrade. I particularly like the smoother UI when using a 4K monitor. Everything has been running great.

 

[mango316]

not sure what to say but with 10.11.1 beta 3 on my mbp13 2015 3.1/16/512 is buttery smooth without having to turn on increase contrast/reduce transparency

 

[maplingstorie]

El Capitan made me regret installing Yosemite. but hey, no Yosemite, no El Capitan. Yosemite was horrible .

 

[trevgriff]

Wondering if any of you who took the plunge and upgraded already. Do you have any regrets or is there any major app that will not run? I am just curious. I have held off from installing to see how many of you have problems.

Went back to Yosemite; issues with Office 2016 (no search in Outlook), Filemaker Pro and Filemaker Pro Server. The issue with Outlook wasn't there in the last Beta

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Luckily I didn't install El Capitan on my main partition. For me El Capitan is not worth it:
Benchmarks from different applications are slower, Word 2011 always crashes when I try to open a large document with clipart, drawings and formulas and my Caldigit USB3-pci-e card isn't working anymore. And I have my doubts with Adobe CS6.
I stay with Yosemite. If I could, I would go back to Mountain Lion but Time Machine can't set my backup back in this case.

 

[Ebenezum]

I stay with Yosemite. If I could, I would go back to Mountain Lion but Time Machine can't set my backup back in this case.

If you desperate that isn't necessarily a problem. First make a clone of all your data just to be safe side. Download Mountain Lion from App Store Purchases, then make a Mountain Lion install disk with DiskMakerX. Boot into that disk, open Disk Utility and erase Macintosh HD. Then quit Disk Utility and instal Mountain Lion. Next you have create a new user, use same name and password as previously. Last you have to install all software and move your data from backups.

Its a lot of work but it could be worth it if Yosemite doesn't work for you...

 

[fivenotrump]

I regret that I waited a whole week to upgrade.

 

[Queen6]

I decided to try 10.11, as in general there has been a lot of good words, unfortunately for me it`s been problematic, with multiple issues mostly with Apple`s own applications. Right now I am undecided whether to roll back to 10.10.5 or do a clean install of 10.11.1.

It`s not tragic, however it is disappointing, I am rather hoping that the 10.11.1 point release will remedy the issues, if not going back to Yosemite seems more likely.

Q-6

 

[darmr]

Wondering if any of you who took the plunge and upgraded already. Do you have any regrets or is there any major app that will not run? I am just curious. I have held off from installing to see how many of you have problems.

No regrets. Yosemite was very good here. El Capitan is better.

 

[fotty14]

I'm having some fairly major regrets. One day after upgrading my computer went entirely nuts with some kind of keychain error. Restarting my computer as a logical first step locked me out entirely and I had to do a clean install and then restore from Time Machine. But this wasn't a straightforward process like it should have been and involved 3 attempts at internet recovery and hours on chat with Apple support. Now I am having issues backing up to Time machine, my Mail setting are all mucked up, netnewswire crashes repeatedly as it tries to load, one of my favourite Safari keyboard shortcuts doesn't work as it did, multiple little extensions that I had grown reliant on are buggy, and I'm constantly holding my breath to see what will be the next thing to go. The complete crash was the worst as I lost about 300gb of stuff which wasn't backed up to the drive (non-essential but annoying) and lost a days productivity. And I am seeing regular beachballs on my iMac where before I think I had been one in the past 6 months so that is a little frustrating.

I've been running OS X since Jaguar and these are the first real issues I've had with an upgrade. I guess the curse was going to strike me at some point.

 

[coops]

Yes... first boot up in 10.11 and double tap my option key to bring up finder.... oh, noooooo. Totalfinder is pretty much gone.... horrified at having to possibly use the naked/raw and gimpy basic version of Finder.


ps

at least dragthing continues to work perfectly.

 

[Eduardot]

Went back to Yosemite. El capitan busted my USB Bose companion 5 Speakers. And took over mail hogging all my 32 gigs of memory when trying to use mail, slowing the iMac to a crawl. So usb problems and mail problems. Will upgrade umtil they fix them. Hope they do it soon.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

After a while of 24/7 use on three machines my opinion is that El Capitan is flakier than it should have been. The beta period was too short for thorough testing.

On two iMacs at work it runs fine but nothing special over Yosemite, but wakes from sleep is a bit slow. No real world speed benefit at the moment. On my 12 core Mac Pro it's a touch unstable and I have to boot back into Yosemite for WinClone features because disabling SIP is a little more pain in the ass than just using an older OS for some apps. Photoshop has some slow downs and I found a bug that can crash it.

 

[2128506]

Went back to Yosemite. El capitan busted my USB Bose companion 5 Speakers.

Same with B&W MM-1. Sound gone and AppleUSBAudio craps assertions all over system logs.

To add an answer to original poster's question – I do have a regret for not upgrading to EL Capitan: Magic Trackpad 2.

It was just delivered and lo and behold – on OS X Yosemite Apple Magic Trackpad 2 becomes a $170 paperweight. And not very useful at that – due to its form.

What the f**k, Apple? Now you're requiring an OS upgrade for bloody trackpad to work? I could live with that if El Capitan was usable – but it is not, it is clearly a beta-quality product.

 

[whodatrr]

El-Crap-Gate!

This OS has made two of my macs useless. I wish I wouldn't have even heard of El-Crap. An OS vendor needs to check against common apps, before they release an update. I earn my keep with MS Office. Every time I board a plane, fellow passengers are working on MS Office. Every work-related document I get is generated by MS Office. Apple knew that there were stability issue, and they released El-Crap anyhow?

True, Microsoft needs to work with Apple to resolve these issue. But Apple shouldn't have released this stinking pile of turds, knowing that there were MS Office issues. This is a disaster.

 

[Queen6]

I upgraded from 10.10.5, had issues, subsequently have done several clean installs of 10.11.0 still have issues, with Apple`s own applications. Apple are simply pandering to the masses, I want stability & security first, 60 fps "buttery" smooth UI transitions are of no use to me if something as basic as Mail or Preview does not work.

Going to give it to 10.11.1 then will be rolling my Mac`s back to a working OS (10.10.5) IHMO 10.11 was released far too early in the development cycle. The worst OSX transition I have ever seen, I am of the mind that the less you use your Mac the more you will like 10.11, the more you use it, the more the OS & it`s bugs will interfere with your workflow.

When on the Keynote a new and "awesome" feature is the cursor growing if you shake the mouse, you know that Apple`s getting close to the bottom of the barrel...

FWIW this will be the first time I have ever considered rolling back OS X and that`s a long time...


Q-6

 

[navaira]

Well that "Snow Yosemite" upgrade went rather smoothly for everyone concerned, didn't it?

 

[oldmacs]

Its a shame to hear of all these El Capitan disasters. Personally, I installed El Capitan over a Yosemite install which was really terrible, and its improved out of sight.