I like your message here.
I was never an Amiga owner in the day. I was an Atarian as that fit my budget best. I have no issues with any platform and used whatever computer I could get, enjoying them to the fullest. Just this year 2010 I found some interest in Amiga after all these years. I must say there is way too much what I call "teenage angst" on most all Amiga forums I joined. This angst coming from adults is way over the top. Turned me off a bit from the Amiga community. I can turn away and not get involved with these kinds of folks but it seems a large percent of the activity these days is just this bashing that and this bashing that. Gets real old even if I agree with some of what they say. Sad because most all the Amiga hardware that has anything to do with Amiga or the Amiga OS or compatible are fine fine products. They can stand on their own and shows why some of you really loved the Amiga for what it is and was.
You always see a crackpot or two in any online community but I must say, the other retro computer boards I am on, there is much more positive attitudes and helpfulness on them versus the Amiga sites. Seems like other retro folks I meet on other sites enjoy a common bond of using their machines. Sure they have lively discussions but that is what they are and never turn to all the verbal abuse I see on the Amiga forums.
Not sure why this is the case but for me, reading these forums day in and day out has turned me a bit away from enjoying or getting more info Amiga. I am not into care bear sites and can duel with the best of them but prefer to enjoy items of interest and leave the kids agnst to kids.
tj
I've only been online since June of this year, but my oh my, how has the Amiga community changed since the good old days when all Amiga users had one thing in common ie: we all loved the Amiga and never actually had a bad word to say about it (we usually only slagged of other platforms...)
Not anymore it seems, I know there's a right old mixture of folks on this sight who claim to be Amigans but there's also a hell of a lot of folk who seem intent on either trying to claim the Amiga is dead and another lot full of crazy opinions that the Amiga should be run on this processor or that processor, or this OS or that OS and spend more time arguing and debating and even slagging each other off about each others views 
Now I enjoy a good debate/argument but my brother just emailed me to tell me that he and a number of his friends (their all PC users by the way) have been looking in on this site lately and they are all of the opinion now that our so called Amiga community is nothing more than a bunch of "sad retards who seem hell bent on destroying themselves from within"...
Don't know about you but I think they may have a point... or do they just not understand the Amiga Community as it is today...
