AmigaOS 3.2.1 fixes several bugs and additionally comes with new features. The team of developers and testers have worked ever since the release of AmigaOS 3.2 fixing bugs and implementing new features. They have read social platforms for user anecdotes, videos and reviews, and are excited by the positive reception and feedback.
The Amiga will never die.
Some define a cult as a self sustaining meme which gives some people a feeling of belonging.Amiga doesn’t bother me at all. I mostly ignore it like it was a benign cyst.
What does interest me is why some people are addicted to trying the latest Windows or hacking it so it works even when Microsoft have thrown them under the bus. In fact I think the whole “Windows Insider” thing is manipulative and exploitative and suspect Microsoft executives are laughing at them. A combination of Americans can do attitude and wanting to build the hype train in a large country is bound to find a critical mass even if they are 0.01%.
Calling Linux a European socialist trojan horse should trigger someone on the ‘Murica Christian right.
Ha, the Amiga isn’t a cult, in so much as it gets members from nostalgia and they wander in and out of the community very often. There are some very passionate developers working on things, and it feels like a breath of fresh air to use an operating system that is so light weight, the disk space is counted in the megabytes. It is snappy too, in many ways that modern operating systems are not, unless you throw Gen4 PCIe nVME drives at them that have insane bandwidth…
Ha, I always thought the thing people liked to call Linux and open source was ‘Communist’.
You have to give Microsoft some credit… historically Windows releases have been sort of like Star Trek movies. Every other one is okay, but the ones in between have been meh, or worse. MS finally broke that pattern. Windows 7 was decent. 8 was crap, they tried fixing it in 8.1, which was almost okay… then 10 was kind of crap.. slowly got better, then worse, then better… still crap… and now Windows 11 is trash. If it weren’t for lack of security updates, and newer DirectX I would likely go back to 7.
It is too bad things just aren’t all ported to an OS that gives a crap about their users. Actually the Amiga does do that a lot more than Windows does!
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Same.
Developers tend to target platforms with large numbers of users, and users tend to use platforms that run their software. It’s a bit cyclic, haha.
Having source code and multiplatform frameworks makes porting a whole lot more practical, but a lot of software is closed source. It’s hard to blame the developers since the business model for FOSS remains a challenge.
I certainly prefer more variety and lighter simpler operating systems. That may be nostalgia like you say, or maybe when you are in your teens and 20’s everything is new and exciting and less complicated. The politics and opportunities in the world are certainly less than they were back then at least in first world nations. I’m not a fan of neo-Thatcherite/Reaganite politics or the zero-sum corporate authoritarian populist nuttery it’s pushing the world towards.
I agree about Windows 7 or even Windows 2000 if I’m being a die hard but have recently shifted to the dull and predictable Linux Mint. No more corporate politics and being able to ignore every single Microsoft marketing announcement announced by stenographic journalism results in less head clutter.
RiscOS really dropped the ball…
For the everyday tasks I do I don’t need a lot. Word processing, email, browsing, videos, and graphics editing and photo post-processing at a push. Who needs mega processing power and a zillionty cores and a bloated everything and the kitchen sink OS? I really don’t. Most people don’t if they told the truth.
RISCOS dropped the ball a long time ago. It never evolved out of being a co-operative multitasking OS on a niche platform. AmigaOS was always technically better, but the lack of memory protection in all of the OS from that era was the killer. Because AmigaOS started to run on non-Commodore hardware, and was an international phenomenon, and also had a lot of software, it lives on. RISCOS dragged its feet for a long time, was all legal battles and infighting over who owned which part of what source tree, and the 2 or so third party computers (IYONIX was the one I remember) were way too expensive to be practical. The RASPI port is probably the first sensible thing anyone has done with the RISCOS source in the last 25 years… and it was extremely lacklustre when I tried it (and I grew up with an Archie A3000 at home, which I used to program on and write demos for, and had an A7000 later on – so yeah, I have used RISCOS quite a lot.)
The strange thing about calling Linux communism, is because hardcore capitalists don’t understand the difference between communism and socialism. Yes, true Linux is a kind of socialist piece of software. But you are allowed to mold it the way you want it to be and it is not forbidden to make money of it. So it is not exactly communism, more like Social-democracy if anything.
Now…. With the data that Windows send back to MS and the closed source nature of Windows it self, and MS trying to controll what you do with your machine. Now, that sounds more like Marxism that are on it’s way to become full blown Leninism. I don’t think it will ever become Stalinism, but keep the eyes open, because the computer world are just waiting to screw it’s users over, because power entoxicate.
Hehe….. We are not in a cult. People usually tend to fall in line with their dear leader, when they are in a cult. But the weakness of the Amiga world, is that we are extremely fragmented, and some are against each other. Like if the Amiga was NYC, the users would be the gangs of NYC. There is no dear leader, and have never been any front page person. Compared to the Apple cult, were they would bow down to Jobs and suck up everything, like sugar on a spoon in front of a child.
No, no…. In the world of Amiga, we have stuff like Vampire folks against Warp060 and TF1260 people. We had Blue against red. (no, not AMD/Nvidia-war), and so many other fragments within the community. Everything floating around, people against people, no front figure or leader if you like. And for some strange reason, the Amiga keep living on as a hobbyists platform. Think more of Amiga as the Linux world, just with Linus cut fully out of the equation nearly from day one.