After hearing a bit about the upcoming Windows 8...

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and having heard enough about it, I have to ask: Is there a version of Linux (or any other commonly used OS) that's remarkably close to the Amiga? I think Windows 7 will be my last version of Windows.

The things I find most useful are:

A GUI that doesn't force the active window to the front, and makes use of window depth gadgets. I've had enough of not being able to stack my opened windows the way *I* want them stacked.

String gadgets that don't automatically Select All on first click. I don't know how many times I was in the middle of renaming a file when Windows arbitrarily highlighted the entire line on me, and my next keystroke cleared everything I typed. I wound up loading UAE and renaming stuff from there.

Has a dual-paned file manager as standard. I'm thinking a DOpus Magellan-type manager would be fantastic.

Does its best to alleviate "click-fests" when doing file management. Renaming files in Windows 7 is a lot better, being able to tab down the list, but DOpus Magellan's method, where it essentially turns into a text editor for renaming is the most functional method I've seen to date.

Doesn't try to "help me" by automating things that don't need automation. I generally find myself getting frustrated very quickly trying to do simple file management in Windows, and I'm wanting to find something that has plenty of software support with none of the baggage and garbage that accompanies Windows.

Although it doesn't have the depth gadets or many of the useful things the Amiga GUI has, but I found this Linux distribution to feel almost Amiga-like, dynebolic - http://www.dynebolic.org/

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I'll just keep calling "GNU/Linux" "Linux", not "GNU/Linux" every time I want to mention it. We don't call AmigaOS "Exec/Intuition/Workbench/AmigaOS", we just call it "Workbench" or "AmigaOS" because it's easier and people know what we're talking about, same with why we call "GNU/Linux" just "Linux", it's easier and we assume that anyone smart enough will already know it came from GNU and anyone too stupid to know it already won't give a **** anyway.

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Looks more like Windows 95

I don't think it looks anything like Windows 95. It's one of the few Linux distributions that doesn't use a task bar, but has docks and button bars. It's prepackaged with lots of creative software and just feels less sterile than the other Linux distros.