Waccoon wrote:
UNIX isn't the problem. It's XWindows and KDE/Gnome running on top of UNIX that determines how useful it is for the home. As much as I respect Linux as a kernel, GNU doesn't really make things easy at the shell level, and the GUIs available for Linux aren't very impressive at all.
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I can't remember the name right now, but there is a window manager for Linux that is designed to have the look and feel of Workbench.
Much to my wife's disgust our home is a Micro$oft free zone. She's much happier now that I've switched from SuSe to Linspire (Lindows) Linux. After all the distribution is designed from the ground up to comfort Windows Lemmings.
I have never been a gamer. Since 1991 I've earned part of my living doing Amiga based computer graphics. These days I usually create just parts of a project on the Amiga, but assemble the thing on a PC. At home I finally got a Toaster/Flyer system last year. With it I created the photo-montage used in my daughter's wedding. If I never turn the system on again, it will still be worth the $$$ spent.
At work, or at home, when I boot up an Amiga system I get the same sort of feeling that others mentioned. This is a computer that I know and understand. If I need to create something there are many tools that even now can let me bring what is in my mind to the screen or printed page.
I'd love to have a new Amiga, but the ones I use today serve me well.
Bob
