MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing

[Linde]

I don't know, I think many of the slashdot comments make sense from a certain point of view. If I wasn't a die-hard Amiga fan I probably wouldn't touch any of the current-generation Amiga systems with a stick.

[Linde]

I'm going to try upgrading today. Anyone try the new Scintilla based editor?

I was thinking I might start looking into getting a supported laptop, but without WLAN it won't be very useful to me, so is support for that planned?

[Linde]

I care about amiga stuff, I don't give a f**k about linux. My HD videos play faster on MorphOS than on OSX and files are copied faster. I bet that videos are played faster than on linux too. But you wouldn't care anyway since you like linux and you have more fun typing cryptic commands on a shell so I doubt you know what a responsive system is. Even xfce feels slow compared to any Amiga desktop.

In terms of general usefulness, I think some Linux distros are way ahead of MorphOS even without a desktop environment. I get along quite fine with it on modest hardware with just ratpoison/openbox, and if there's something I want to do, I can rest assured that there's an application for it in the package repository. But I agree that MorphOS is much more responsive and lightweight, and seems more swift however you look at it. Typing cryptic commands on a shell isn't all that bad if it's the fastest way to get a job done.

Either way it is, it seems reasonable to ask you to back up hard claims with hard numbers, though!

I was looking at the list of features again, seeing the FUSE wrapper library. Does that mean I get to SSHFS? Seems like a killer feature to me.

[Linde]

In terms of general usefulness I think Windows is *much* more useful than all your linux distros together, but I care more about general amiga-ness, that's why I care about Amiga apps, Amiga demos,...

Well, the Amiga demos that you can run under MorphOS are a serious minority, so judging by your own requirements you'd probably be better of with classic hardware and OS 3.x, I think. There's no point arguing over what OS is better if there's no common point of reference, anyway.

Having crap GUIs is the usual linux excuse to use cli.

At this point I assume that you are just trolling. What I'm trying to say is that a CLI is very useful for some tasks, regardless of the GUI. If you disagree with that, I guess you have been too busy watching Fluffy Digital Snowflakes to do anything seriously productive with your computer.

[Linde]

I care about Amiga software. The only unix software I'm interested is the correctly ported one. CLI ported apps are crap. alien-GUI ported apps are crap too

Sure, just rant about something else instead of actually responding to my argument.

I use cli to launch scripts that automate tasks and to compile, but for normal use it's usually slower than GUI (unless your GUI is absolutely crap).

I find CLIs useful a lot, not only in Linux, but also MorphOS, Amiga and Windows. I don't know what constitutes "normal" use, but unless it's limited to copying files from the root of one folder to another, named/sized/dated so that they show up in order, using simple CLI oneliners can save you a lot of hair if you know the tools of your system well.