I used Win95 and Amiga side by side for years. Don't recall 95 being more capable at anything.
I ran Win95/98 and Amiga together... I can say by that time, Win 95 had a number of features over Amiga.
It had an integrated TCP/IP stack you didn't have to purchase/register/use for more than 30 minutes. It had several decent browsers available. It had available PDF viewers (ghostscript finally got ported, but it was a couple years later).
And, stability was about the same. I could expect to do about 8 hours work on either one, with a minimal of fuss.
Despite that, I kept my Amiga 4000 as my primary machine up until early 2000, when I built an AMD Win98 (and updated it to Win2k, when available) machine.
Nowadays, pretty much the only thing that keeps me on Windows is games. Otherwise, Linux or OSX looks rather nice. I dual-boot my PC, but 99% of its time is spent in Windows XP, as that's where the games are, and there isn't anything I CAN'T do in XP to force me to use the Linux boot.
I've thought about putting something like a VMWare or QEMU Linux installation onto my Win build and running all my network apps and browsing through that for more security, but with Firefox and other GPL apps, I haven't had many problems just running them right on Windows. (shrug)
Anyhow, if I had to go with an unsupported OS these days (something really alternative -- not Win, Linux, or OSX), I'd probably go with my SGI Octane and IRIX! :-)
Have I rambled enough? :lol:
