> To me, Linux lacked a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the Amiga. It had no games scene, the culture was older, more academic or "heavy industry" and didn't ha

> To me, Linux lacked a lot of the aesthetic aspects of the Amiga. It had no games scene, the culture was older, more academic or "heavy industry" and didn't have multimedia in its blood like the Amiga scene did. Sure, nothing comparable with the Amiga. But coming from Windows 95, Linux was at least programmer friendly. My biggest frustration coming from the Amiga was that I wasn't able to display anything on a PC (at least, not with the limited knowledge I had at that time). With the Amiga, it was easy, no need to worry about system calls, you just wrote at the right place into the RAM et voila. And it wasn't complicated to make things move using the Blitter and the Copper. It was something a kid could do. EDIT: talking about the aesthetic aspect of the Amiga, I think it was a beautiful computer too. People always praise Apple for making computers beautiful. But to me, my Amiga 500 was much better looking than an Apple II or a mac from that era.