Why AmigaOS 4.0 is going to be successful…

[Rodney]

Forgive me for replying too late to this, but i figured this topic was too stupid to give an ounce of time to. And my opinion hasnt changed, but my attitude has. Its borring, and im wasting time. Something needs to keep my occupied...

Basicly a silly comment for what you ment for it to be. If you had labeled the topic "why im going to buy AmigaOS" than i would have thought, yer, thats ok. But you've labled it "Why AmigaOS 4.0 is going to be successful…". Because of that, your comment is totaly wrong.

AmigaOS may have its good points, but Windows totaly blows it away with its avaliable software, features, hardware support, and just about every basic essential part of what an operating system is expected to have.

And most people who run windws dont want another OS. Some do, but those people are geeks like you and i. Most people arnt geeks and are completly happy with what they've got. Something easy to use, something to surf the web, do some emailing etc... Why switch to another OS if their can do that already? And on that note, theres really no decent AmigaOS browsers. There are browsers, but they're no where near what they need to be to fullfill someones every day needs. And thats only one example...

The thing is, if people that run windows, are going to swap, they're not going to go buy a ppc and buy AmigaOS on top of that. They'll stick with the hardware they have and learn linux... or buy an lindowsOS machine.

Maybe in the future AmigaOS will be very popular, but i dont see AmigaOS reaching the popularity (market share) of Apple (at its current state) for at least 5 years or more. Saying that, it may never reach it.

I like AmigaOS and i'd love to see it succeed. But both MorphOS and AmigaOS have got more chance of failing than succeeding. You may not like it, and i dont either, but its a fact. If AmigaOS has got anything go for it, its Hyperion for 1, and the increasing amount of people willing to try others OSes as 2. But still, thats not a lot, and AmigaOS is really going to have to come out with some earth shattering programs as killer apps...

I think the perfect apps could come in the form of Home appliance software and network solutions to other devices. This stuff is realitivly new and AmigaOS could make a shot at it! Inthe future maybe .

[Rodney]

I could spend the next 3 days typing stories of how easy it is for the average joe to get their windows system trashed by virus, poor MS software or just stupidity.

AmigaOS is just an vunerable as Windows in terms of OS security. Maybe theres been between design decision that can prevent vertain attacks, but general i see no difference between the two.

AmigaOS doesnt get the severity of attackes that Windows based OSes do, but thats because of the small  user base.

Also, Windows takes so much to maintaine because of its large software base. AmigaOS not got the amount of features windows has and it'll be a long time before it has.

And btw the reason i switched to x86 is because AmigaOS would constantly crash, and i'll admit, my win98 machine hardly ever crashes. Its solid.

Like everyone used to say, AmigaOS really insnt going to make it into our homes and offices. Its gunna need a killer app, like i talked about before.

Sure it could get a geek userbase, and eventualy over time it may pick up the odd newbie and grow and grow. Thats a slow process, and its likly to die before that happens.

And if your gunna start talking about viruses. If someone is that concerned about them, that they'd switch Oses, they'd go for linux because its much more secure. Basicly because of its user access. Viruses cant do a lot of damage unless their run by root. And since you should always be running in user mode unless you got something important to do, viruses wont take over your system.

the only virus on linux i've heard about have been only a little annoying! Linux and Windows beat AmigaOS in every direction, except maybe responsivness, but normal users dont even care about that, although it does make using a computer a lot easier. But all my family of novices know is that they like to use the software and only windows has what they wont! (that they know of) they're happy with what they've got!