Sorry Aros community for apparently starting this debate.
Personally for me, I don't care how old apps are handled as long as the machine can run them, the easier the better. I have no problem in how aros is handling this, in fact the main reason I stayed interested in Amiga and kept wanting a dedicated New Amiga machine is largly because I had winuae on my pc that kept reminding me that their was and use to be a better way of doing things.
May be this is a bit daft but I will admit to it, one of the reason I got amigaone x1000 is because I didn't see the future of Amiga as buying a second hand apple product or a second hand pc. Daft, stupid, maybe but I like the fact that custom hardware is made for Amigaos, would I like it to be more advance, yes, would I liked to have been cheaper, yes, would I liked more classic features on it, ie classic joystick port and castWeasel mk4 built in on board, yes but I understand the limitation of what is possible.
I got aros about 6 months befor my x1000 for my acer aspire one, and was very impressive with how finished and complete it felt and it nearly put me off getting the Amigaone, I even started thinking image if I put the £2000 in to the aros community to advance their efforts. In the end I felt "well tried that it not quite what I'm after, I will get my x1000, give os4 it's chance, see how I get on, i can sell it if it doesn't impressive me and build a aros machine with the money" so far os4 has won me over, but aros is a lot closer than I thought and is only getting better each year, but now I can enjoy both systems and os. Hell maybe even one day I might end up gettting a Morphos machine. Their no reason why can't support both os.
So my point is at the end of the day if one of my friends wanted a Amiga experices today (they all have pc) the first thing I get them is actually winuae setup if they wanted more or a dedicated machine then aros, because its free and it's what they already have, generally most people don't have an old ppc mac lying around, if they did, of course I recommend Morphos. If they enjoyed that and where big fans of Amiga and had a bit of spare cash then os4, but very rearly is that going to happen wich is why I do feel that aros has the big advantage
