Can Linux cure my craving for AmigaDOS?

[Heinz]

What would you think if you were me?! How closely does LINUX resemble AmigaDOS? Is it as transparent as the good old Amiga?

In my personal opinion, of all OS I know, LINUX is most dissimilar to AmigaOS !

It is not intuitive. You have to read several pages of manuals to do the simplest things.

Getting new Hardware working, is close to impossible for a "normal" user.

In my opinion, even the actual windows versions are closer to AmigaOS then LINUX !

If you want AmigaOS feeling, then AROS is the best choice.
But it is not usable for .NET development.

If you need .NET development, but don't want to use WINDOWS or LINUX, then take a look at

http://www.reactos.org/

I am not sure if .NET/MONO is already working there, but there is a good chance, as ReactOS is an OpenSource Windows clone.

[Heinz]

A few years ago I would have agreed that Linux is less user friendly than some other operating systems. Getting hardware or software to work used to be a nightmare.

However, Ubuntu makes it really easy to get new hardware working and has an excellent package management system for installing new software.

Maybe.
But the same things were said about some of the LINUX distribution I have tried.
I have tried a lot.

SUSE
MANDRAKE
KNOPPIX
DEBIAN
SLACKWARE

The three first worked quite well, but I never get my DSL Card ( yes there was a official Driver ! ) and my Scanner working.
CD-Burning only worked on Knoppix ( If I remember correctly ).

And all had a Package Manager and a configuration tool, that was supposed to be "great", "wonderful", "just works" ....

I personally accepted that LINUX is no desktop OS and it probably never will be a desktop OS.