It was a superb machine (arguably the best personal computer) in the 80s and early 90s, but its now 2012 and things have moved on. Why are people still intent on trying to resurrect it like some festering computer zombie? Its making a mockery of the Amiga name and of the time and effort the original designers put into its HARDWARE - because it was the hardware rather than the OS which really made it what it was.
it was the OS and the HARDWARE!! the two made the whole greater than the sum of it's parts. no oher OS/hardware combo before or since has ever come close to that kind of synergy. The OS is still more intuituve and user friendly than anything else out there. with Amiga you could just plug your sound card in(if you even needed one) and your audio software of choice could use it. with Linux you have to deal with the trioka of terror known as ALSA, PULSE, JACK and god only knows what else. there always some tweaking & confgging to be done especially with usb audio stuf. thankfully you can go online and get answers but inux is still pretty much for power usrs and hobbyists. It is way to unwieldy in it's complexity because it was designed from the start by geeks for geeks and noone else untill 10 or so years ago. and yes by god we had the right to laugh at the pc and mac users of the day. i fell sorry for those that didn't experience the amiga.
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It was a superb machine (arguably the best personal computer) in the 80s and early 90s, but its now 2012 and things have moved on. Why are people still intent on trying to resurrect it like some festering computer zombie? Its making a mockery of the Amiga name and of the time and effort the original designers put into its HARDWARE - because it was the hardware rather than the OS which really made it what it was.
it was the OS and the HARDWARE!! the two made the whole greater than the sum of it's parts. no oher OS/hardware combo before or since has ever come close to that kind of synergy. The OS is still more intuituve and user friendly than anything else out there. with Amiga you could just plug your sound card in(if you even needed one) and your audio software of choice could use it. with Linux you have to deal with the trioka of terror known as ALSA, PULSE, JACK and god only knows what else. there always some tweaking & confgging to be done especially with usb audio stuf. thankfully you can go online and get answers but inux is still pretty much for power usrs and hobbyists. It is way to unwieldy in it's complexity because it was designed from the start by geeks for geeks and noone else untill 10 or so years ago. and yes by god we had the right to laugh at the pc and mac users of the day. i fell sorry for those that didn't experience the amiga.
Now that I've calmed down. How come the other browsers don't have to hit the hardware to gain this "performance"?
If they succeed. We are already forced to delete Linux to play games, now we'll have to delete Linux to surf the web!
My town is on slash dot! yay! hooray for the Lou.
But once you learn it you can then look cool to passers by. And impress you girlfriend with your editing skil. :)