I have fond memories of my C64 and Amiga because they were simpler. Switch on and play, no installs, fairly reliable hardware and if you had a problem just cycle the power switch, they were more like gaming consoles except with the extra tinkering fun of real computers.
Once you got into the more involved aspects of software and hardware tweaking, even the C64 and Amiga had their fair share of headaches. I remember several floppy read problems with my A500's and no end of head scratching trying to get an 030 accelerator to work reliably on my A1200.
The thing that made it different from troubleshooting a PC was that the A1200 wasn't critical, it was a hobby. Hardware problems on a PC I needed to work weren't as much fun.
I think it's a combination of things that make computing less "magical" these days, getting older would play a big part. I still get a lot of fun out of playing around with PC's, especially building MAME cabinets. I like learning about the technology and watching it advance, for me the magic has become more of a science.
It's a sort of Garden of Eden - Tree of Knowledge thing, I s'pose?
