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The 'good bits' of OSX is that there is no such a thing as 'drivers' from the users perspective.

Well, unless you buy some hardware that is not from Apple. Buy a 802.11ac USB stick (because your Mac has 802.11n and you cannot upgrade the hardware) with Mac drivers. The vendor decides to release a (buggy) driver update for El Capitan half a year after it's released.

Pretending that the driver problem does not exist on macOS does not make it go away.

(Mac user since 2007.)



"Pretending that the driver problem does not exist on macOS does not make it go away."

I never said there was not a driver problem.

I alluded to the user perception of drivers.

Users in this day and age should have absolutely no need to be aware of the concept of 'drivers'.

Do you have any drivers for your Android? iPhone?

The very concept may very well be dated and perhaps there is a a better solution in 2016.




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