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Yeah, it's a strong statement. But let me explain:
I installed about MorphOS about two months ago on my old Apple Mac Mini G4. It was my first real touch point with Amiga OS (alikes) besides some gaming with UAE. Most people seem to only play old beloved games via emulators and never use a Amiga for more. But the (recent) "Amigas" with Amiga OS 4 and MorphOS are much more. You can login into your Linux/Unix systems via SSH, do some light (b/c of the old/slow hardware) web browsing, listen to music, create music (=> trackers!), write texts, chat via IRC or XMPP, develop great cross platform applications (Hollywood!), connect to your NAS and stream music, videos, ...
All in all you can do much of the stuff you do on your modern systems - but with UX/UI concepts of an era desktop compuing wasn't such bloaded and mobile focused it is today. Real window borders for example, skinable user interface - even for each application seperate with MUI - and it's all extremely fast (besides the web browsing).
Some downsides are also in daily using MorphOS: No disk encryption - but at least user management and login is there -, not much software... for example there isn't a keepass compatible programm. Also something like UTF-8 is only present in the web browser Wayfarer. So i'm using a proxy - capybara - to browse gemini or a ssh shell for matrix chat via gomuks.
I use MorphOS neary daily. It is always a joy to power this old machine on at the morning and get a login prompt in 5 seconds. It sits as "side kick" system next to my home office workstation for music, private e-mails, irc, matrix chat and gemini.
Why i don't use a Raspberry for all this? Just because MorphOS is more responsive and cleaner in terms of UX/UI.
Yeah i feel right at home as child of the 90s with MorphOS!
Some links:
MorphOS Storage (Application Repo)
MorphZone - Community Forum, Wiki,...
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