What operating system to my old iMac (early 2009)?

I got my new Mac and for some reason it would not start the other day. Just a gray screen with bar Apple logo more progression below that seem to take forever to do anything. Tried all the tricks to fix it, but wouldn't boot... In the end I gave up and HD format and do a clean install of Snow Leopard disc original system. I did some checking and HD seems fine. I was running Mountain Lion before everything went wrong and noticed that you can't improve that more...

In fact, my question is will be El Capitan killed my Mac if I want with Snow Leopard or if I can get Cougar? I am Artist/Illustrator I'll primarily use CC Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign) with a Wacom Cintiq. I need to get this sorting ASAP because it's my job. I have bills to pay!

Any help with this would be appreciated?

Thanks in advance!

Luke

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Update of OS X El Capitan - Apple Support

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