Serious n00b

[Solodric]

Hey, I'm a real newbie to this. I've never used an amiga before at all, and until recently I was under the impression that it was an open-source OS like Linux that did really well a long time ago. Could someone please explain to me the exact nature of what Amiga is?

[Solodric]

My real question is more about modern Amiga than it is about amiga's history. How does Amiga stack up against other modern OS's?

I'm a hardcore gamer and I need the best multitasking available. I was thinking running Windows on Linux (Since it runs better on Linux than it does normally) via ghost-drive to optimize performance, because I honestly cant go out and buy crudloads of RAM to cram into my system, I'd much prefer a system that makes the most of it's resources (Which need to be considerable for a gamer)

but I'd heard good things about Amiga, and if it's better I'll use it instead of linux, or maybe go really crazy and have Amiga>Linux>Windows running

What do you guys think?

[Solodric]

Hm. I'll probably try emulating it, yeah. My main question is: Is Amiga just a more efficient/effective OS than Windows or Linux? Will it use my somewhat limited RAM supply to greater effect?

What are Amiga's advantage and disadvantages?

[Solodric]

I'm not jerking you guys around - that's hardly my style. I heard a little about Amiga from an old fan of it's and decided to Google it. That led me here. As for ghost drives, I was referring to partitioning your hardrive in such a way that the computer reads it has having two seperate drives, and you have your main drive (With your primary OS, such as Linux or Amiga) and the Ghost Drive can have a second OS (such as Windows) which you basicly access in a shell-like way, if I understand properly.

I'm not terribly computer savvy, to be honest, but I've had a few discussions about it and the above is the best I can figure out about ghost drives. Sounds like a good way to run Windows if you've the space (if that description is accurate)