What lessons from the amiga OS are applicable today?

[Kesa]

The most unique feature of Amigaos that i can think of that noone else has got is screen dragging

[Kesa]

Yeah, somehow the rotating cube screens on linux just isn't the same. It's not useful in any way apart from eyecandy whereas screen dragging is a useful tool.

[Kesa]

The Amiga's lack of "Autorise" (where a window will move to the front when it becomes active) was probably the thing I missed most moving to the PC. If you hold down the left apple key on a Mac you can force the window to stay at its current depth while dragging... But it's not the same

You mean someone actually likes this? I thought everyone hated it! Why do you like it?

I read a review by someone trying out AOS4.x and he kept complaining about it and then he said that Hyperion made it so you could turn it off if you want to.

[Kesa]

The multi-resolution screen dragging is unique, but not very useful on modern monitors. Single-resolution screen dragging exists for Linux using Enlightenment as the window manager.

Why isn't it useful or modern monitors? What's the difference apart from the larger screen sizes today? :confused: