@runequester
I am responding to your original post in this thread.
I have an A2000HD with AmigaOS 3.1 and a MicroA1 with AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2.
My Amiga 2000HD is almost 20 years old. It has a 68000 CPU (no accelerator card), 5 megs of RAM, 40 MB SCSI hard drive, a second smaller SCSI hard drive, a SCSI CD-ROM drive, and a MicroWay flickerfixer card. Running AmigaOS 3.1 with very little eye candy.
My MicroA1-C has an IBM PowerPC 750 GX CPU, 256 MB of RAM, Radeon 7000 with 32 MB video RAM, hard drive, DVD-ROM combo drive, ethernet port, and USB ports. Currently running AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2.
Back in 2004, I upgraded from my A2000HD with AmigaOS 3.1 directly to my MicroA1 with AmigaOS4. I had never used OS 3.5 or OS 3.9 or any of the associated eye candy. Even in those early days of OS4, I was quite impressed by the variety of options available. OS4 was familiar and yet way more colourful than my OS 3.1 installation. I was also able to use many 68K programs that I had never been able to use on my A2000HD, as well as the PPC programs that were available for OS4.
I am currently running AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 on my MicroA1. I use OWB, NetSurf, Timberwolf, Final Writer 97, PPaint, TVPaint, DvPlayer, AmiPDF reader, NotePad, AmigaAMP, TuneNet, WarpView, KingCON. I also have Real3D and CinnamonWriter. I used IBrowse and AWeb until recently. I have E-UAE for some really old programs that require OS 3.1 or the classic chipset.
I like OS4. I have not tried the other available flavours, so I don't know how they contrast or compare.
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