Does Linux have an Amiga feel?

[gertsy]

Maybe earlier Linux deployments in the GUI/Shell sense. But not much more than that. The Amiga also had a sense of being revolutionary, leading edge. No such feeling on Linux.

[gertsy]

Windows has a better shell than Linux.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell
 

 
Windows has better compatibility with Windows software and can also run any Linux app. http://www.colinux.org/
All with industry wide driver support.

Why?  If you want an OS for an OSs sake than Linux is great, but you might as well use Amiga OS 3.9 in that case.  If you want an OS to actually do stuff, you know productive stuff like video editing and music production you're looking at Mac or Windows. Then it's just a preference on the way you do stuff. I like to right click.

(An HP-UX and Solaris Unix admin for 5 years)

[gertsy]

It is a bit ridiculous to compare the newest Windows with a 4 year old completely outdated version of Ubuntu.

unfair or incongruous yes, but ridiculous? Probably not.  But in reality 12's not gonna do much more for you than 9.  Same legacy driver challenges will be there, or settling for NdiSwrapper madness. For me family time is more important now. Maybe when I retire. It's a good OS for Octogenarians, nice and steady and smells like moth balls. Will go nicely with my beige cardigan with the vinyl elbow patches.