I don't know if anyone started such a thread. but...
me at the moment, I use it mainly for email and I would "love" a decent web browser for it that works with most websites - then I suspect I'd probably use it more for other things too given less reliance on other systems.

I always thought perhaps if an lbox was written to allow Linux to run as a task, although I totally dislike Linux it might be technically possible? or perhaps an mbox for MacOS? as long as an mbox and lbox run concurrently with the abox that is, otherwise they are not that useful.

well, my peg2 is used mainly for development of my programming language and mp3 playing (as an ambient music while programming) and movie watching... rest, mostly the web browsing i do with my minimac... and unless there will be more advanced browser, like sputnik, but fully featured, i'll keep it this way...

bye, MarK.

I'm using Pagestream as my most used program. And then of course AmigaBase, Yam and Bars and Pipes. I use My Pegasos mainly for my work as musicteacher to prepare my lessons. I like the Pegasos because of its archtecture. It does exactly the things I want and..... I know how everything is working, that in opposite to the MS-computer in the schools(!) where I give my lessons (arghhhh!)

Regards Tom

my Peg2 is in a box, waiting for his future owner.
Tired of waiting for MOS 2.0 while so much is happening in the outside world to keep me busy with other machines (new OSX coming, new Suse 10.3 and Ubuntu)

I use my Pegasos2 every day now, more than this fuc**** pc I have at home!!!

I can do almost everything with my Pegasos2, so I am very happy. Listening to music, watch videos, surf the internet, speak with other people via IRC, download torrents, painting, even using Papyrus Office. Well, that's quite enough for me. The more even the better.

So, I will be never tired of waiting MorphOS 2.0, because I can live with this. I born with an Amiga, so MorphOS is the best friend for me.

As Pegasos is my main computer, I do everything on it what I generally want to do with a computer. Mostly using internet, watching movies, listening music, process digital photos, general tuning, little coding and playing games (although I play more games on a1200)... and of course all with MorphOS ;)

I use my Peg also for daily home usage. Mails with YAM, browsing with Sputnik & AWeb, then I use Songplayer, ANR and Ripper (it's been quite some work to rip all my CDs) a lot as well as MPlayer and ShowGirls & TVpaint. ProStatioAudio is also a brillant piece od software I use. There's also Cubic I use for a lot of stuff (text typing, HTML editing, somtimes a bit of programming). Every now and then I fire up Hollywood and occasionally I do a game or launch UAE for some legacy stuff. When I burn a CD I use MakeCD.
I guess that's it.

As addition I also have my old Win/QNX laptop, that's mainly used for Opera (browsing when in bed or what Sputnik cannot handle) and for Office and my photo scanner.
I use the Peg I'd say ~90% the Win maschine ~10% (e.g. this and last week I haven't started Win at all yet).

I use it mainly for watching latest US TV shows, sometimes a movie. Thats it. AmIRC is running usually.

Everything else I do on my other MorphOS/Peg2 or the OSX10.3.9/MiniMac.

I've been using Linux for years (since '98), I have tried using only MorphOS on my Pegasos II for about a year. It was ok I could do most things I wanted. Then one day it went kaput and I was back using only Linux again which I also like, so no problem.

By the time I got my Pegasos back from BPlan, I realized that I could do things better, easier and even faster with Linux. I'm still using my Pegasos allmost daily for all sorts of things but it isn't my main computer anymore. I browse the web, watch anime, listen to music, check my mail, chat, play games and emulators with MOS, it's still fun but there are much better options for me.

Maybe in future MOS will be my main OS again but today and in the near future it just isn't.

What I would like to see for MorphOS is a better browser (Sputnik is getting there), a nice comic reader like comix on Linux, something like rtorrent which is a very good and fast command line torrent client, good paint programms like the Gimp (Pixel looks promising but it's not usable on MOS ATM), office programms like Abiword and Gnumeric (no need for OO, to bloated), games like Open Arena, Alien Arena, Critical Mass, Frets on Fire, Sauerbraten, TORCS, VDrift, Wormux and lots more

-toto

I currently use MOS for the following things:
1) Listening to MP3s with Kaya and some old MODs with ANR.
2) Encoding MP3s with Ripper
3) Listening to som web radio (it has become kind of a weekend breakfast ritual) with ANR.
4) Storing/Viewing/Editing my digital photos (Showgirls for viewing, ImageFX for editing).

I could do all these things with a x86 box BUT:
+ MOS boots WAY faster than Windoze and Linux on my x86 box
+ ANR is just the best piece of soft for Web radio and playing MODs
+ Showgirls is better by far than Windoze Exporer for pics
+ My peg works seamlessly with my El-Cheapo MP3 player, while Windoze sometimes refuses to recognize it.

lack of os controlled memory management and isolation of apps, makes MOS totally impractical for day to day use. One app can bring down the entire system far too easily and that would get tired very fast if I had to rely on my peg/mos for any real work. Of course MOS is derived from AmigaOS framework so this is not a flaw of MOS, just an unavoidable side-effect.

sad to say (or not really) that peg+mos for me is pure pleasure and fun. I love the familiarity and memories of AmigaOS. I love its quick response. I love it for what it is, but it is impractical and could not really replace a relatively solid OS such as Linux or Windows in the real world.

Peg+MOS is escapism from the borin functoinality of Winblowz

"lack of os controlled memory management and isolation of apps, makes MOS totally impractical for day to day use" - I use it every day and my Amiga before I got my Pegasos 2 - I never had an issue with it. Only buggy software will generally bring down the system, and in the end, do you run much buggy software?

sadly, I have found the software available for MOS very limiting, so for now it sits nicely secured in a closet behind my desk. still waiting for MOS2.0 though, that I will buy ofcourse, but I really hope there is an improvement in software too!
...sure you can use a peg to listen to mp3, watch a tv show or view some pics, but this is no real use! it always comes second in line...

[ Edited by keropi on 2007/10/24 7:25 ]

Its my main machine. Peg2 G4. I use it for all computing:

Web (now voyager ppc), irc (wookiechat), msn (polyglot), music (Aminet
radio and Amiga Amp), downloads (mostly Rapidshare com links), Ftp,
Rdesktop to other machines in the house, movies/series (mplayer),
emulation (moslty C64 - Vice), some gaming (scumm, quake etc.),
picture management (Showgirls, fx paint and Art Effect)..And more
ofcourse :))

All normal computer use. My 4000 is only being used for classic gaming
as it is :)

Keep the stories coming :)


[ Edited by kriz on 2007/10/24 7:03 ]

"Only buggy software will generally bring down the system, and in the end, do you run much buggy software?"

zhulien: Yes, as a matter of fact, I do run a lot of buggy software on Windows but it is not a major issue due to app isolation. Perhaps your day-to-day needs are limited compared to mine. I'm a graphic artist/animator/cut-scene director for a video game company. When I work I have _several_ complex/bug-prone apps open in parallel.

A typical work session for me involves having Photoshop, 3D Studio Max, Premier, Word, Explorer, Internet connection and god knows what else, all open at once.

Even *IF* MOS had comparable productivity apps as Max, Photoshop, etc, the potential for bugs in that kind of software is unavoidable! When you compound the problem by having them all open at once then you have a bug-time-bomb on your hands and potential instability increases rapidly.

Even the best written software will have bugs. Unless it is very simple software. Bugs in software as complex as 3D Max are _unavoidable_ which is why you need an OS designed to isolate and contain that sofware, such as Win, Linux and, I guess, MacOS (?).

Like I said, MOS is NOT practical for commercial real-world work, unless you are fortunate enough to have found a set of apps you can use on MOS that full-fill you needs and are 100% bug-free but the odds of that are unlikely.

that doesnt mean I love it any less and I'm looking forward to purchasing MOS 2 once it is available.

I'm just a realist, not a cheer leader - sorry.

well, you're right in the meaning of instability of amiga-like systems, but. i worked at an animation studio years ago where we used amigas (classic 68k) for commercial work. used them for line testing with attached videodigitizer. they have run several applications at the same time (ppaint, internet apps, linetester software, dopus, etc.. and sometimes games - doom and megaball). they never crashed! everybody loved them coz they were so reliable.
and it was 8-10 yrz ago, with 3.1, buggy miami, ibrowse, stb...
i guess problem with mos is, that a lot of the apps and some part of the os itself are in beta stage, and almost every user act like a betatester:) if the core parts are matured enough i think stability wont be as much problem anymore (and you've got to know what buggy software you've got not to use).

well, you hit the nail on the head. i remember 10 - 13 years ago when my A1200 was genuinely my main computer used for "seriouse" daytoday work. back then my expectations of an OS were less. I could accept the fact that I needed to be very careful of what combinations of actions I made on my Amiga. I used PPaint a lot too and I remember it had a strange bug that if I ran a fiilter while a picture was in zoom mode the entire system would lock-up. So I had to avoid doing that of course there were/are many combinations like that in too many Amiga apps (even fully mature apps) that can bring down AOS. Like you say, back then the Amiga appeared very stable but that was only because we had to compensate for bugs and the lack of OS "protection" by NOT doing certain actions.

I guess our past history with the Amiga is what makes MOS's general instability ok for us, we know exactly how to use it. would i want to return to that in my commercial day work, when I am up against tight deadlines and my boss is breathing down my neck? no.

In the past I used it for IRC chat and a few games and even as my web surfing and email system. Then I put linux on it and used it for more, now it sits and hasent even been turned on for longer then it takes to make sure it boots up in months.

Saddam,

err, do you imply that your mos system is unstable because of core components? Could you name some please (and no, beta doesn't mean unstable)?

Instability is almost always caused by 3rd party apps, from my experience.