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Re: Very hard to understand
« on: March 08, 2015, 08:58:37 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2015, 02:34:31 PM »
With all due respect, probably would have served you better to do more research into what the system was capable of in regards to current software offerings on it before you plunked down $3000 for it.  Worse comes to worse, I suppose you've got a very capable Linux box, albeit likely the most expensive one on the market for what power it packs.  I'e got a $200 HP laptop (HP Stream) that I run Linux on and it'll run circles around even the most beefy OS4/Linux PPC machines.

I love my OS4 machine, but if I'd bought it believing that it would be capable of doing everything my various windows boxes can do, I'm afraid I'd have to eventually accept the idea that I should have researched the software offerings a bit better before shelling out the cash on it  I love it for what it is, but anyone able to use an OS4 machine as a daily driver PC has far more simple requirements of a modern computer than I and most people do.
 

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Re: Very hard to understand
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2015, 02:08:51 PM »
No one is buying Rasp Pi's in the collective scheme of things to run an Amiga OS variant.  None.

You could have every AmigaOS variant ported to Rasp Pi and the total number of people buying the things to run said OS variants would be in the fraction of a percent.

So far, 500,000 Rasp Pi 2's have been sold.  There's a pretty fair variety of offshoot OS's to choose from, yet I'll still wager 99.99% of them (Pi's as a whole) are running nothing but what the things run natively as a mainstream OS - Linux.

A $35 "Amiga" won't re-invent the glory days.  The number of people even running AROS for Pi on a regular basis would be minimal, and if people haven't already crossed the proverbial divide and coughed out $35 on hardware to run AROS on the Pi, what difference would AOS or MOS make.

Even the new Pi is a pretty horrible experience if you want to run a daily driver, GUI based OS on it - even Linux.  I find the AROS offerings for it nothing more than a "can we do this" case.