@Iggy, What makes Morph/AmigaOS so good over any Unix OS?
Well, I can't speak for MorphOS, but as someone who just wasted a hell of a lot of time trying to get into Linux for personal use (about which I wrote a long rant in my blog,) I'd have to say that it's just plain not a good desktop-computing OS. Obviously the Unix model is very good for server environments, and probably certain kinds of workstation setups. And the underlying technology has been used quite successfully to build OSes for phones and other devices.
But not to beat around the bush, it's just a giant pain in the ass, or series of pains in the ass. Installation/upgrade is painless, except when it isn't, and then it's agony just to get things back to working the way they were, the underlying structure is such a labyrinth of cryptically-named files that depend on other cryptically-named files in ways that are never consistent across distributions and nobody ever documents, the UI is schizophrenic unless you're using one of the "giant integrated suite" desktop environments like GNOME or KDE, and even then it's not very good, and in any case you still have software like the GIMP that is just utterly unusable. And the culture is such that any issue you have gets you a few responses of "I feel your pain, but I don't have the capability to fix this either," accompanied by a bunch of people smarming about "well, this is The Linux Way, and if you don't like it, write your own software, because clearly you as a would-be end-user have the time, inclination, and ability to do that."
The question isn't what makes AmigaOS/MorphOS/Haiku/Kolibri/whatever
better than Unix. The question is, from a user's standpoint, what could make it
worse?
