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Stability on macOS? Laughable. Macs are pretty popular among musicians and producers. When El Capitan dropped, pretty much all audio hardware and software stop
by cue_the_strings 6y ago
Stability on macOS? Laughable.
Macs are pretty popular among musicians and producers. When El Capitan dropped, pretty much all audio hardware and software stopped working. I remember that you couldn't use Native Instruments plugs and the majority of pro audio interfaces stopped working.
This was fixed after a while, but it took at least half a year for everything to work again for 50% of users and a full year for everything to work for 90% of users.
If you upgraded by accident and didn't have backups, you were in trouble. Even if you had backups, you could still have issues.
Here's a link from back in the day:
https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-software/5-reasons-musicians-producers-and-djs-should-avoid-updating-to-os-x-1011-el-capitan-today https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-software/5-reasons-mus...
Now, did something similar ever happen on Linux or Windows?
I can safely say that a lot of people lost some revenue because of that upgrade (there were also issues for video production software), at least until the word spread that you shouldn't upgrade.