"Arch is great! It will install on any 64 bit architecture based on the highly dominant and superoir Intel/AMD processor lines, and also supports the 32 bit Intel processors back to 486. It supports many wireless cards as well as having a proper TCP/IP stack. The best thing about Arch is that it runs all your classic Amiga applications blazingly fast with e-uae or winUAE under wine or virtualbox. It also has the latest and greatest everything the linux world has to offer as well as being supported by a community larger than all the classic, morphOS, and OS4, Aros, Haiku people put together. You can put it on any name brand pc computer."
The sad thing is that I post this with sarcasm in mind, but the simple truth is that Arch or any flavor of Linux is a bazillion times better than any proprietary operating system hands down with the exception of Windows. Linux is better than MorphOS and OS4. ANd it's free. FREE. I state this because I am absolutely amazed by the stupidity spit out by both camps screaming about their Toy OS. Hey, I love minidiscs. They are DEAD TECH. Do I wish they had won? Yes. Do I think they'll make a comeback? No. Is it cool that MorphOS runs on unsupported used Mac computers? Yes! Is it cool that OS4 runs on custom build small run hobbyist computers? Yes! Would I buy ANY of them thinking "This is it! My favorite '80s era computer is back!"? Hell no. Hands down. As far as the hardware? Look at HP:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/12454-12454-296719-307907-4050865-3718645.htmlI spent 2400 dollars on a Dell XPS laptop a few years ago. It was a great laptop at the time. Now with the same money I can buy an HP that has direct coupling of the 12 DDR3 memory slots to the processor with the potential of 192GB of DDR3 memory. 192GB! You can run every OS ever made in virtualspaces...twice if you're bored; house every piece of software ever written for any of them, and run them faster, better and more stable than they ever ran on their original computers.
We do Amigas as a hobby, and as a love for something intangible from our youth. They are our "Rosebuds". So please. STFU. We get that you like flavor X over flavor Y. But iof someone is going to lay down money on a machine they want to hear the cool stuff they can do with that machine, not take the pepsi challenge.
