What's the issue with AmigaOS 4? - Why does no one like it? - I'm just curious, cause I read some of the negative comments and since I don't know much about OS4 I wonder why it's disliked so much.
It's a long story, stretching back over 10 years. Cutting out all of the campist/fanboy nonsense, valid technical arguments against OS4 can be summarised as follows:
* Expensive entry point (unless you already have a system that can run it).
* Incomplete support for available hardware (lack of 3D drivers for high end Radeon, for example)
* Slow pace of development (also applies to alternatives).
* Less than perfect backwards compatibility (again, also applies to alternatives).
That said, I rather enjoy it on my A1200/BPPC/BVision combination. Backwards compatibility is assisted by having the actual hardware and the 603 is capable of surprisingly rapid performance compared to my 040 for legacy 68K applications. And I can always reboot into OS3.1/5/9 if I need to
