men.... feck linux!

[pixie]

I've installed Linux and a FreeBSD and from an user POV they are severly lacking in UI issues, badly!!! If not because some good programs namely for Internet and AmigaOS surelly kicks both of their arses!

More the problems I had with them, I still can't put my xp partition to boot.

I know that Linux is user friendly et all, it only is picky with its friends, but friends like this I want nothin at all, vive l'AROS, vive MorphOS vive l'AmigaOS, cos they still kick some arses (major ones icluded)!!

[pixie]

they have but they (gnome kde) suck badly at it and as for installation, yeck!

[pixie]

linux community usually says about its user friendlyness:
'Linux is user friendly... It's just picky when choosing it's friends'
I can't say they're wrong but... I don't have to be his either! :-P

[pixie]

Maybe I had bad luck on installation, but an OS shouldn't be so bloated... heck! I had about the same time or more then installing XP!
but my grief is on graphical interface

[pixie]

au contraire... Windows borrows many things from AmigaOS or use the same patterns of usage, wherever... the linux isn't and isn't exactly great on the new things...

MUI has much more configurability then any of those (I was rather intriged with enlightment but couldn't set it to use...)

On Amiga you install (or at least on pre 3.1) graphically, whereas here you dont' (well neither the XP but we all know how good microsoft is)

[pixie]

Everytime I see linux I believe more on Amiga..


Portugal goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

[pixie]

I don't think, give some limitations of course, poeple that like computers should be that conserned about user friendliness. They should be more concerned about the effectiveness, responsiveness, multitasking and that kind of stuff...

And how many people are we talkin about, 5%, 10%? The Joe User wants the things done, and easely and AmigaOS provides that...

[pixie]

Wrong. Windows can boot to safe mode for non critical errors, but for system critical failures (bad patch, driver, service, etc.) you have to use the recovery console, a (very limited) CLI.

I have seen it the bad way, I try to fix the MBR but without sucess until now... I've tried all under the roof without luck... :-(

[pixie]

No matter how much I have tried Linux has always felt like an adversary (when it doesn't work it's because it doesn't want to work), Workbench has felt like a friend (when it doesn't work it's not intentional).

Exactly my feelings... Even when Amiga crash you know what you'd done 'wrong' so you wouldn't do it next time, heck even my father could spot what he could or couldn't do... :-D on Windows (and on linux too), most time you get an halted application which one doesn't know if it crashed or is just hanged up for no apparent reason...

[pixie]

Personally, I think the hanging-program-argument is a non-issue. If an application hangs, it hangs, whether it is an Amiga, Windows, Linux or some other OS.

In my experience with Amiga it rarely happened if at all, on AROS when it crashes it does it immediately ad also never see it hang... but it is y personal experience, whether on windows it does it all the time.

[pixie]

"AmigaOS is the king of user-friendly". Oh boy! There's a time warp if ever I saw one. AmigaOS was user-friendly 10 years ago, relatively speaking, but not today. By today's standards, even when compared to Linux, AmigaOS is a nightmare for anyone except those who have a decade of familiarity behind them. Not only is quite a lot of stuff counter-intuitive really, but there is little consistency and far too many missing features for a modern OS.

Explain it further please... I used a lot of OSes in recent years, and have to say that AmigaOS does many things right when it comes to UI experience... and altough many things are lacking the back bones are there... Devs for example, shell and gui integration, visual installation (I never saw AmigaOS being installed through monotasked system like them all) ... etc. Many thing could be improved I don't discuss that, but a nightmare!? Please... I had to learn AmigaOS as well as Windows (MacOS and QNX at some extent) and now Linux, and none compare to AmigaOS...

You see I also said nothing at all, but as you didn't specifiedP