Like what? Hmm? What do Amiga users do that PC users need 3 GHz for?
Based on the frequency with which I hear PC users chuckle, slack and otherwise pass off anything that's not as fast as their 3GHz systems, apparently it starts at the flip of the power switch. I've run into a lot of people who believe they need that much speed to get any work done at all. They seem to have a mental block that keeps them from being productive if they're not using what they perceive to be at least the minimum acceptable processor speed. It's like tortoisephobia or something.
I diss people who talk BS. Spreading ignorance and myths to make themselves appear smarter or more savvy than your average user. I don't diss people who do more with less, but judgung by this thread what you have is people who diss other operating systems on the basis of their own prejudice and ignorance.
Everybody seems to be talking from their own experiences. Linux doesn't lend itself to the uninitiated very well. We all know that. Drumming that up to intentionally spreading myths and then immediately talking down about them only makes it look like it's being turned into an out-savvy contest. To a greater or lesser extent, everybody disses other operating systems based on their own prejudices and ignorance. Nothing's going to change that. It's just confliction of opinion.
Really? How does that match up with the general ignorance of many Amiga users? They may know a lot about AmigaOS and Amigas, but they know nothing about anything else.
There's some serious courage behind that statement. Amiga users have a general ignorance about other operating systems? Wow, I don't think I've got the intestinal fortitude to spread a myth like that. Well done!
There's a reason only "nerds" bothered with computers and the mainstream wanted nothing to do with them back before the MHz/GHz craze started. Computers were simply too slow for people who didn't understand them. Anybody who refers to that older hardware as "ancient" probably wouldn't know the first thing about squeezing anything out of those pre-WIMP systems, or even systems that shortly followed. They worked fine back then. You just had to know how. If people of my generation had the attitude a lot of today's computer users do, computers would never have gotten out of the "stone age". Nobody could've been bothered to use the damn things long enough to figure out how to make them do anything.
Sure, a 3GHz processor won't make for a much better text editor, but you won't get much rendering or modelling done on that 20MHz processor. See?
No, I don't see. Creative people get rendering done on slower systems. Five years from now, people will be spewing the same crap about today's systems that were used to create Gollum, saying how unusable they suddenly are because the then-modern systems will somehow seem to change the older systems in "the enlightened" people's minds and have them believing they're totally worthless, unusable, and they need to throw good money after bad on the next best thing with a big, bright "NEW!" slapped on the side.
I suppose we all could've scrapped our library database toils to make a feature-length movie on our <20MHz processors, but our bosses would make us stay late and we'd never get to see it in the theater. In all honesty, if the computers of today were available back then, it wouldn't have made a hill of beans of a difference. We got an awful lot of records processed on our "ancient" equipment, but the time it took to write the software to do it still took much longer than it took for those processors to chew through all that data. Creative people (the ignorant, apparently) find a way to get it done. I'm just not willing to get caught up in the need to buy new hardware every year when the slower stuff does just as well for the most part. I don't come away stupider from those slower machines, as you seem to want to imply. If anything I'm better prepared to put the faster hardware to good use. It's the necessity of that that's in question. More often than not, it isn't.
AmigaOS is small and efficient. It is also primitive by modern standards and does a lot of things very badly indeed, if at all.
Some people prefer to dig a ditch with a bulldozer. I do it with a primitive shovel. I get a good tan, stay in shape, and ulimately have more control over where the ditch actually goes. If by modern standards you mean where Microsoft seems to want to take me, I'll just stick with primitive.
