El Capitan OS X

[Cassady]

Worse OS Apple ever braught out, well maybe not because I totally skipped 10.9 so don't know how that was. It's clunky, it's buggy, it's slow, I expect of a Mac to just work, no hastles, no issues but since updating my iMac to El Crapiton it doesn't anymore. Imagine if Apple speds a entire year only working on software, leave the hardware as is for a full year it's good enough, then only spend all their time on software.

What iMac do you have - as in, which year model?

 

[Tinuva]

Worse OS Apple ever braught out, well maybe not because I totally skipped 10.9 so don't know how that was. It's clunky, it's buggy, it's slow, I expect of a Mac to just work, no hastles, no issues but since updating my iMac to El Crapiton it doesn't anymore. Imagine if Apple speds a entire year only working on software, leave the hardware as is for a full year it's good enough, then only spend all their time on software.

Must be your install.

el capitan works 100% on
- my mid 2014 MBP
- hackingtosh pc at home

 

[bigboy529]

A clean install was never needed before when updating to a new OS, shouldn't be needed now, though I agree that it probably will improve things. I know people who has been running on the same drive for probably 5 years just updating not clean installing, and their systems have been rock solid up to 10.10.

 

[Cassady]

A clean install was never needed before when updating to a new OS, shouldn't be needed now, though I agree that it probably will improve things. I know people who has been running on the same drive for probably 5 years just updating not clean installing, and their systems have been rock solid up to 10.10.

What has been going wrong, specifically?

 

[bigboy529]

What has been going wrong, specifically?

It's mostly just very slow, even hangs on me for a few seconds from time to time, Safari is terrible etc. For those asking it's a late 2013 iMac. I should probably do a clean install to see if it improves things, it's just such a shlep.

 

[PostmanPot]

It's mostly just very slow, even hangs on me for a few seconds from time to time, Safari is terrible etc. For those asking it's a late 2013 iMac. I should probably do a clean install to see if it improves things, it's just such a shlep.

Could even be your hard drive failing. Would be good to check its SMART status, though it can sometimes be inaccurate.

I'm not sure of a good Mac app to check SMART.