Mac or Pc?

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MikeB said:

@ 786_ali

If you are a PC gamer, Windows is pretty much the obvious OS. Luckily PC gaming has taken the backseat and is much less relevant today if you own a PS3.

MacOS X is underneath pretty powerful (much better than older releases). Linux is powerful, but is ussually a pain to setup properly. All 3 OSes can easily cover the main things people use on a desktop (Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, chat client, etc).

But if I compare all of this to what I already did on my Amiga in the early 90s, IMO progress has been slow (in terms of responsiveness and multi-tasking, the experience was usually better back then):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a-fEE_7BC4 (CPU used here is about the equivalent of a 286/386, back then I had a 68040 which was many times faster and allowed me to 'emulate' a Mac faster than a top spec Mac of the time as well)

Hopefully AmigaOS 4.x will someday become advanced enough to regain ground (and support mainstream hardware):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx3q2wFIn6k

 

Just to put this on the right context, MikeB owns a small business venture that is trying to sell a variant of the amigaOS to be used as an embedded system on consumer devices.

So take his opinions about operating systems with a grain of salt.