by cv643d on 2005/10/13 19:09:20
Sorry but it sounds like the easiest and best OS for what you want to do is XP.
Its very much like Amiga after all. Applications multitask and you can fire up a prompt just like Cli in Workbench. Better yet every web page you will want to view will look great because you can run Internet Explorer which is the de facto standard for web pages if you look at browser standards. And you can easily connect your digital camera to the USB port and transfer pictures. Windows is not that bad really. For me the choice is easy, I work as a web designer and I dont want to pay to be in the exclusive Apple club.
An XP machine feels like a good old Amiga on stereoids.
Yes, an amiga on steroids, but still struggling under the weight of a load of inefficient or superfluous crap. Having said that, XP is probably your best bet (personally I'd tell the guy not to install it then sorce your own copy elsewhere, if you know what i mean...) but yeah it's still not the same. The annoying thing is that this is a supposed 'professional' OS, with multimillion pounds of R&D poured into it, and yet there are still niggling flaws, and things that coming from the amiga background, and seeing how that works, tend to annoy (ie having to restart after making changes, long boot times, renaming a network took a couple of minute to update the other day- rather than just saving a file in the ENV like on amiga, also I had to go through the whole wizard to do so, there's probably another way but i've yet to find it.) Oh yeah, and the whole registry and indecipherable codes whichg mean that certain programs start up, and its not obvious how to change, unlike opening startup-sequence in a text editor. But I've come to think that old Billy boy wants the general public to know less and less about how computers actually work, so he can get awa\y with a less efficient OS ( I mean on my PC, an AMD sempron if i waggle the mouse pointer about, the CPU usage goes up to about 50% - are we supposed to believe that it takes 1Ghz to move the pointer? How did computers used to work if so? :crazy: )
and also so people are less inclined to migrate to another OS, or figure out that they don't need to buy a new computer (and pay for another copy of windows) just beacuse it's not running as fast as it used to, or the hard drive is full. (probably with lots of little pointless files and archives created by windows for that very purpose- I find that it get harder and harder to free up space on a drive the longer you've been using it)
