spirantho wrote:
Why? Because it's very very fast and responsive, isn't full of bells and whistles that lower reliability and speed, it's intuitive to program (pardon the pun) and it's just NICE. It does all I need an OS to do, and doesn't pretend to be something it isn't (c.f. Windows pretending to be some kind of media hub or something). Backward compatilibity is also pretty good and runs most things I've thrown at it.
For me it certainly doesn't do all I need from an OS. The biggest problem is lack of file management options. Amiga's Workbench hasn't ever been good for handling the files and still isn't in 4.1. I've been using Magellan2 as Workbench replacement over 10 years on my classic Amigas and using plain WB is just impossible for real work. OS4's problem is also with external filemanagers, Magellan doesn't work and even old time clumsy two view managers don't seem to work good enough (for example dopus4 and amidisk crash too much with 4.1). Also when you try to fall back to shell, it doesn't help much in file management... no backbuffer/scrollbar, no tabs, no anything.
Well, that's the main reason why OS4 still can't be my main OS. But luckily there still is options in Amiga world and I can live without mainstream platforms
