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Tempest wrote:

Amithony wrote:

dammy wrote:
2009 should be a very interesting year for the Amiga community.

Every year is more interesting than the last. I find it fascinating how many swings and round abouts the technology goes through. One thing is for sure though, if Microsoft do not address the performance issues in its operating systems, we may well see the resurgence of the players like the Macs and Amigas. It's happening already, but Amiga needs to step up to the plate to make hay while the sun is shining, otherwise, we will be reading about how good the Amiga always was and emulating it on our new intel machines

Really?

Joe 'the computer user' doesn't give a sh*t about Amiga, most people don't even remember it. Amiga like OS's like MorphOS, Aros and OS4 just don't have the apps, hardware or stability to satisfy most users. This isn't going to change in the near future with only a few active users (a couple of thousend).

There's nothing these OS's have to offer at the moment. Don't even start about bootup time (most favorite amongst Amiga users), my 6 year old Linux box (AMD 2500) boots up in just 35 seconds and system performance is very fast with a highly tweaked Debian 'unstable' netinstall and Awesome as window manager.

The only OS's that could profit from a possible downfall of Windows are MacOS and Linux but I don't see Windows dissapear in the near future (Windows 7 is just around the corner).

Just face it, Amiga like OS's are just for hobby and aren't going to be mainstream ever again. The competition is lightyears ahead. Just look at Linux, it's a great OS if you put some time in it and best of all it's free

Yeah really.  Vista has been an embarrassing failure.  Average Joe is no longer dumb-ass Joe.  He's probably had XP for a few years, knows he can do everything he needs with it,eye candy ala Vista doesn't matter, and he sees vista that does NOTHING new for him, makes his machine slower and a lot of his peripherals won't work with it.  So he stays with XP.  Why do you think MS already has a beta of Windows 7 that many people are installing and finding it is FASTER than Vista on their current hardware.  It took MS what 6 years to make Vista and within 18 months they have something that it is widely reported to be faster than XP on the same hardware. Why?  Because the game is changing, the same old MS trick of updating your hardware for a new look and better stability is gone.  Performance is where its at, and MS knows that another bloated POS like Vista will be disastrous.  And BTW Linux is the biggest overrated, unintuitive mess that I have had the misfortune of experiencing (yes done Ubuntu (does dial up work yet?), Done red hat, done PCLOS, done Mandriva all meh)

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I only started using Windows (XP Pro) regularly about 3 years ago.  Xp SP2 is very stable and runs very well. Prior I  was doing everything on AmigaOS 3.9.  I also played around with MacOS 8.1, usually under shapeshifter.  On all systems I didn't have to piss-fart around trying to install hardware or edit text files with incomprehensible names or commands. More recently over 12-18 months I have dabbled with Linux in the hope of recapturing the Amiga intuitivenes.  Well what a joke:   just try to install a Linux driver, edit a monitor config, or fix somtehing when it inevitably fails, and watch all of your spare time disappear into the vortex of eternity..Linux is not a consumer-level OS, yet never will be as long as its not possible to do EVERYTHING you want without going into the command line.