This. There were plenty of flaws in the Amiga experience (like "please insert disk..." dialogs that simply won't take no for an answer because the programmer d

This. There were plenty of flaws in the Amiga experience (like "please insert disk..." dialogs that simply won't take no for an answer because the programmer didn't check for errors) but that instant feedback is what's missing from so many modern systems. I call it "having the computer's full attention" - and it comes from the fact that (using the stock GUI system) the gadgets which make up the UI are drawn and redrawn in response to input events on the "intuition" task rather than whenever the application's main loop next gets around to it. That's why Magic User Interface felt "wrong" on the Amiga, despite being a superb toolkit in lots of ways* - drawing was relegated to the application's task, making it feel "Windowsey". (*I would genuinely like to see a port of MUI to X / Linux.)