Updating from Mavericks to El Capitan

[macfilm]

Hi, I've been held back on Mavericks for reasons I won't get into but I'm now looking to finally update to a later OS.

I have a lot of apps I use on a daily basis such as Final Cut Pro X, Aperture, Excel and Photoshop. Is it worth me updating to El Capitan first to smoothen out any software issues I might encounter before then moving onto Sierra/High Sierra?

I know Aperture for example is discontinued but it might help to migrate the images into the Photos app through El Capitan rather than Sierra where I might encounter too many compatibility issues.

Thanks for any advice as to how I should best plan my OS update.

 

[KhunJay]

Macbook Air 256GB End 2012, i7, 8GB RAM....I am slow adopter of OS....my thinking is why &^%$ with it if it's working ok.

Been on Mountain Lion for yonks....works great, fast...but I wanted to try some new app versions and updated browsers, youtube etc.

So went to Mavericks for about 2 days...and then to El Capitan. (I like to stay about 3 generations behind so all kinks in an OS get ironed out.)

Updated to new versions for a few apps....Adobe CC 2017, Microsoft Office 2016, iWork etc.

All working good.

Happy with my decision.

In short...do it.

 

[macfilm]

Awesome, yeah think I'm gonna jump to El Capitan and smoothen everything out before I go on to Sierra.

I'm the same as you here, I don't wanna screw something up that's working fine but I also do want to try new features of apps that are only available in later OS's and general security improvements etc!