OSX El Capitan
- Thread starter Huntyz
- Start date
Associate
- Joined
- 20 Nov 2013
- Posts
- 916
Got the same email this morning. I want to give it a go but as pathetic as it sounds I've only just got my dock how I like it. Any customisation is such a ballache I don't want to mess with it again so soon. 
Associate
- Joined
- 20 Nov 2013
- Posts
- 916
Bit late, an unrelated update just ruined my dock anyway.
Might spend today messing about with it, wasn't sure if I could restore over a new system but no reason not to now.
Soldato
I've been playing with the DP versions for a few weeks on my older Mac mini (completely legit before anyone starts jumping to assumptions!).
Not using it as my daily driver. Installing it into a new partition would break the Boot Camp install of Windows on the rMBP and I can't be dealing with the inevitable Application compatibility issues at this early stage.
Not using it as my daily driver. Installing it into a new partition would break the Boot Camp install of Windows on the rMBP and I can't be dealing with the inevitable Application compatibility issues at this early stage.
What applications if you don't mind me asking? The entire adobe suite, Steam, League of Legends and all of the Apple apps work fine here.
I'm running it as a daily driver on my MBP. No real issues so far, and everything I've tried works perfectly. The only exception is MacPorts can't be installed as they've not released an El Capitan build yet.
Everything runs OK for me overall. It's a bit quicker to boot and wake from sleep/suspend. I do get the odd beachball for a few seconds in Finder occasionally, and Finder - again - does crap out into a black unusable box every day or so (requiring you close the window and launch a new one) but apart from that it's been solid.
Everything runs OK for me overall. It's a bit quicker to boot and wake from sleep/suspend. I do get the odd beachball for a few seconds in Finder occasionally, and Finder - again - does crap out into a black unusable box every day or so (requiring you close the window and launch a new one) but apart from that it's been solid.
iStat menu,boom 2, swannview some other things but i didn't really play with it much i reverted pretty fast.
Soldato
Still have a massive issues of adding IP/network printers. 
Sorry for the short reply earlier, I was out and on my phone. HERE is the iStat Menus beta that works with El Capitan direct from Bjango (the devs). Enjoy.
Ahh thats why my task bar looks so clean and small, iStats are missing! Not sure if I will actually reinstall it :s
I only display the combo menu. You can select one visible item (I use network speed) and the rest are all nested in a context menu. Simple, clean and very useful.
Good shout, think it's one of those things I just installed and left as is. Just didn't realise how much stuff it puts up the top
Soldato
Found the public beta way too buggy, finder windows kept going black, liked the rest of the changes though, will probably jump back in after a few more beta releases.
Yeah Finder does this to me also, and it's really annoying. The other Finder issue I'm encountering is the directory listing (left pane) resets to a smaller size every single time Finder launches. Normally you set the width (to fit the text of your folders) and it remembers, but not in EC beta. I fix the width, but on launching a new window they're all squashed again.
For anyone curious or not affected, here's a screenshot showing both issues (which have been reported to Apple via Feedback Assistant).
I'm seriously considering going back to Yosemite for now. I like the small improvements in EC (especially boot and loading times) but after a week I'm seeing more and more beechballing, stuttering on multitasking and hard disk choking (eg torrents going from 19MB/sec to 1MB/sec and back again instead of staying at 19MB/sec as in Yosemite).
Now's as good a time as any to move to an SSD and 8GB RAM I think. If I have to do a clean install anyway it might as well be on a faster drive.
