Could you PC loving Aholes go home?

[vidarh]

Besides, I much prefer running a somewhat low-res desktop with high-res programs opening on their own screen.

Scalable fonts. There's just no reason to subject your eyes to low resolution any more.

Left Amiga+M is instantaneous and depends only on the monitor resyncing. On Windows, try Alt+Tabbing to PowerPoint after you've been working in another program for a while and see how long it takes. Try Alt+Tabbing back from a game to look at another window - if it even lets you.

Maybe on Windows, but these days on my Linux laptop, switching between apps is instantaneous, even with a relatively anaemic integrated Intel GPU.

Oh, on a related matter, my usual old chestnut: the ability to have the active window not be the frontmost one - how the Windows/Mac/Linux world hasn't gotten to this one yet is mind-boggling.

They have. A large number of Linux windows managers have been able to support this since the mid 90's (inclduding "AmiWM" which tries to make X Windows look like AmigaOS), it's just not popular with users and so pretty much none ship with it enabled by default, and it's a "dying" option.

[vidarh]

x86/x64 based PCs can display to multiple monitors at their optimum or differing resolutions.  It's a bit of a moot point in 2012 with full Hi Def digital displays. The operating system supports what is needed.  Screens were cool in the 80's but they were really a feature gimic rather than anything productive or useful.  IMO.

I loved screens for how it saved screen real estate, and I've got my desktop and laptop set up to run most stuff maximized and switch between them with a key combo just like I used to on my Amiga. With recent Ubuntu introducing a global menu too, it's slowly getting there

But the multi-resolution aspect of it is pretty moot today, I agree.