been searching for that Amiga feel for years but there is only one Amiga. As far as Linux goes, anyone who thinks its intuitive to have a system folder called "etc" is just kidding themselves. Linux is designed so that its neigh on impossible for the average user to install anything on their own, unless someone has packaged it for them previously.
Isnt that the case for windows or even amigaos? A installable .exe is pretty much the same as a pre packed .deb for example. The only difference is that there is so many different linux distros that use different kind of package manager. I recommend you use a popular distro like Ubuntu and you will rarely or never have such problems.
It has been ages since i had to compile anything manually and i actually find it easier to install or update software under ubuntu. I had the same install for years and it never ever broke.
It would be tricky for the average user to compile software under windows or amigaos as well....
Updating ubuntu is also rather simple and much less painful than using windows update.. What you say just isnt true in my experience. It was true maybe a few years ago, but not if you use a decent modern distro.
