The way that the GUI and the shell complement each other was something I liked about Linux.
You got your best use out of the system when you understood both and where each was valuable.
This perfectly describes AmigaOS. It is absolutly wrong regarding any *nix variant!
One of the most brain dead concepts is the separation (or read: non-integration) of user interfaces (GUI, command line) in those *nix stuff. In principle it's more or less Windows 3.1 style by hammering a more or less unintended GUI over a working, multitasking, multiuser command line operating system.
Man, I had fun by using shell commands to completely bork the desktop environment of really, really expensive *nix systems, 'cos those dump X window stuff didn't even notice that I had done it it's back. Not that easy nowadays, but on the other hand they had to do a lot of magic and code to achieve a (semi-)coherence that is an inbuild feature of AmigaOS.
And just for the record: AmigaOS has no and never had any *nix roots. Thank god (or Jay, or Tim or whomever).
