i think a lot of you ney-sayers are missing what i think is the point.
...that the prime objective of any "new" amiga is to allow mere mortals and human beings to use it... so some of you prefer to download patch xyz from aminet that saves you 8k of memory and gives you a 0.1 second boost over patch abc and you should still have that rite.
but when a newbie amiga user (and we do want to convert some of the unfortunate PC users) gets confronted by the ####ty look and feel of a 3.1 desktop (4 colors, dumb icons, zero configgability and "what the hell is the difference between a commodity a tool and a utility!?") what exactly are they supposed to do? ++ I ++ know i can install fullpalette, visualprefs and have to edit startup-sequence and patch some libraries a nd a whole load of other junk on top (just to make it look pretty!) but do we really want to subject normal people to that?
if magellan and something like visualprefs and some other touches like click-to-front options (and please please make newicons the standard and ditch all the "old" icons, and can we have standard filetpye icons instead of having to go back-and-forth between name and icon mode?) were there as the "default" option (yes i still said "option" there and the options should have nicce explanations next to them: "allows you to configure the look and feel of windows, buttons, menus and more. With this disabled you only get a basic environment to work in") then all the newbies and people like me could just go get an amiga and 4.0 and install it and get on with surfing and emailing without giving a monkeys about "workbench-emulator" vs "workbench-replacement" vs "workbench + file manager" vs "visualprefs or shell"... think about it .. modular is good, modular kicks utter ass over bloatey windows but giving people a 3.1-alike as the default and making them fork out MORE moneyand making them download obscure patches for a little user-friendlyness = bad bad bad
cycloid
(N.B. i'm not a spelling or punctuation facist)
