How would you rate support to AmigaOS 4 in support forum

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I've had nothing but good experiences with Hyperion in regards to support for OS4, going right back to the day I bought my SAM in late 2008.  I've found the developers and community extremely friendly and helpful as well, both here and on AW.

Not a single complaint.

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Many people quite enjoy OS4, Lionheart.  If you do not, no one is twisting your arm to buy the hardware and OS.  MOS is a far more cost effective way into the NG Amiga scene, and I enjoy MOS as well as I do OS4.  I fail to see where the constant bad mouthing of the various NG Amiga platforms gets anyone.  The "scene" is already small and separated enough without dividing things further.  I'm a paid in full user of both OS4 and MOS, and neither is perfect by a long shot.

If you really want to pick nits about an OS lacking support for things, I picked up a Mac laptop awhile back to run MOS on, only to find out when the supporting version of MOS did finally get released, the onboard wifi was not at all supported.  Don't think it is, even now - thankfully I didn't register MOS on that machine, not yet anyways.  A laptop without inbuilt wifi support at the OS level effectively made this laptop a paperweight for me, and adding an add on wifi dongle or card defeats the purpose when it knocks your battery life in half - battery life that's already very poor compared to running OSX on the machine.  A laptop without native wifi support by the OS, forcing a user to add on a power sucking card or dongle or forcing them to plug into an ethernet cable pretty much nulled out the idea of owning an "Amiga laptop" to me, so how's about we don't pull the "OMG NO SUPPORT FOR XXX THING IN XXX OPERATING SYSTEM" gag, cause there's issues on *all* sides.

The old "people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" saying holds very true in this case regardless of entirely destructive and degenerating to the scene blue vs. red camp warfare nonsense.

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The whole thread came about, once again - by the OP, who admittedly went into personal debt to buy an X1000 and OS4 without doing his homework about what is or is not supported onboard by the hardware by the OS.  He then went on a tangent about how he was going to sue Hyperion and A-EON because he didn't do any fact checking.

After he got laughed out of the building on that, he became an ardent MOS supporter and was buying a SAM 460.  He proceeded to go to Morph Zone with tinfoil hat on head and pretty much alienated himself there as well.

When anyone points out flaws and insanity in his logic, he whips out the "I AM A LEARNED AND JUST MAN DUE TO JAH AND REGGAE!" and posts links to some reggae video that for whatever reason to him seem to explain away the fact he went into hock buying an expensive computer without checking what it could or could not do.  Pretty much the gist of it, and it makes the old Doomy antics seem sane, lol.

And I agree, the factional nonsense is what's hammering the nails into the coffin of what is already a very skint amount of collective users in the Amiga scene.  It's mutually assured destruction and has caused people to retract from the community, if not the hobby itself.

Then again, maybe I'm being too logical.  If something is too costly, or doesn't do something that I require, I simply don't purchase it and refrain from polluting the scene as a whole if I can avoid doing so.  Personal choice is a truly wonderful thing, and there's enough options in this day and age to have everyone covered regardless of what they prefer.