My new Distraction

[Iggy]

Frankly, I'm a little baffled when anyone states that there are significant differences between OSX, Windows, and Linux when it comes to everyday use. Except for minor differences in the number of mouse clicks and specific icons that minimize, maximize, and close each window all operate very similarly.
There's not much difference. I can move between all them (and Amiga OS olr NG derivatives) w/o any problem.
I also can't see  any clear advantages (although OSX and Amiga OS do boot quicker).

[Iggy]

Ah cool... I try to use Windows as little as possible... I guess MS have caught up a little bit in the drag and drop department. :lol:

I know that can't be done with Finder in Mac OS X.  When you use the 'Connect to server' option from the 'Go' menu to mount an FTP site...it mounts Read-only which makes it pretty useless. :laughing:

Yes both OSX and Windows allow you to link web and ftp files as if they were local. It a feature I had no use for until recently and I was surprised to find out how well it worked.

[Iggy]

Wow, I was mounting FTP sites on my A1200 15 years ago. It was awesome to just be able to just save to the FTP site like any normal drive.

Congratulations on being that far ahead of the curve. I never saw the utility to it until recently (as my current ISP is the only really fast service I've ever had).
Its funny, just when I find ftp sites useful, using them is getting harder (you have to make some changes to Windows' default settings to get ftp transfers to work).
But it is cool being able to treat remote content the same as local.

[Iggy]

Actually I think the Amiga is more like the Madonna of operating systems: desperately trying to remain current, relevant and cool, when in fact she's just an old woman who's embarrassing herself and showing her age.

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moto

Since I don't regularly use Amiga OS I'm not sure about the Madonna comparison. I never found her relevant when she was current. And my current OS doesn't feel like Madonna with a face lift.
It looks as good as Windows or OSX, boots faster, and while retaining an Amiga feel it seems completely modern.

Besides, Madonna always made my skin crawl, even when she was young.