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The system randomly hangs and freezes to the point where it needs to be hard rebooted multiple times a day when I am using it.
Enable the
Debug sbar module and check "Show Log..." from it always after you've ran a new program, or occasionally during the use. If you have tons of lines on it, something has misbehaved and is likely to cause unstability. Don't use programs which make "hits". When you don't use broken programs the system should stay up very well whole day.
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Just browsing directories is broken sometimes and results show no files in a folder randomly.
Learn the (amigaish) concept of showing all files or just files with icons.
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The web browser has lots of problems. Flash seems to not work anymore and anything using flash is broken this leaves the Spotify web player, pandora, and most online games non working.
Yes, I don't advice to use the flash plugin at all. It mostly works with some ads with no real use. And it breaks YouTube etc. Better go with HTML5 when support is available.
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HTML 5 video supposedly works, but it stutters so bad on youtube is is unplayable in the lowest quality setting (and I have the fastest powerbook ever released with high speed internet I cant imagine its too much better for anyone else?).
YouTube videos stutter in the small embedded window, but you have to install the _latest_ YouTube Fullscreen Fix script and use that to get the smooth playback (it really is smooth then). Detailed instructions can be found here: http://library.morph.zone/Getting_Started#Getting_YouTube_Videos_to_Play_Better_on_the_Browser_Window
If you still have some problems, check this too:
http://library.morph.zone/Tips_and_Tricks#Problems_with_YouTube_Videos
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Gmail seems completely broken in the browser as it always says bad request or cookies disabled (they aren't). This means google docs, a very usable modern writer wont work at all either.
Works here (tm). Have you updated OWB from 1.23 to 1.24?
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Across the whole system, I guess java is not supported. It looks like work was going into it for OS4 but I don' think it got anywhere. This leaves us unable to use any java programs or java web content :( add this in with many normal software packages for other systems not being available and it makes it harder to use.
Yes, there isn't any proper Java implementation on any amigaish system. I haven't needed it myself anyway.. and I never install it on other systems either due the holes found on it constantly. Javascript works of course.
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I don't know about the Amiga Command line originally but the MorphOS command line seems very lacking compared to linux/BSD.
Amiga command line is very flexible and has lots of features not found on some other systems, but also missing features found on other systems. It's just not similar in some aspects, but it actually is very powerful. I'd suggest you to read official AmigaDOS manuals for 3.x for example to learn it. And check the available shell commands from here: http://library.morph.zone/Shell_Commands
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Package management seems non-existant
http://library.morph.zone/Getting_Started#Installing_Grunch
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and basic things like ssh and telnet don't work from the terminal
For SSH do this: http://library.morph.zone/Getting_Started#Adding_Paths
And telnet can be found from the MorphOS SDK.
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I would also have appreciated if it used more Unix style commands
Install the MorphOS SDK to get hundreds of Unix commands:
http://morphos-team.net/downloads
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Also I am very confused about the JIT 68k emulations. According to what I have seen online this only works with some stuff. Amiga games apparently don't work at all? Its all good and dandy to have UAE, but I could run that on almost any other OS with a better CPU.
MorphOS is API compatible and emulates the 68k processor. It means that most of the system friendly Amiga software should work, if they don't want to use Amiga's chipsets directly. Games and demos usually hit the Amiga HW directly and MorphOS doesn't emulate the Amiga hardware, so they don't work without UAE, which emulates the whole machine.
But many applications, shell commands, libraries, datatypes, device drivers, etc stuff do work directly under MorphOS. And they do work very quickly because their API calls go mostly to PPC native stuff.
Basically if program doesn't need to open an OCS/ECS/AGA screen and doesn't need to use Paula for audio, it should work pretty well. Newer Amiga programs which support RTG (graphics cards) and AHI (audio cards) will work fine.
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Also the GUI (maybe since im not used to Amiga) seems VERY inefficient. Not being able to minimize a program (when I hit minimize IDK where it goes to), and not being able to have a box go even slightly off the screen does not help with multitasking. Having to go up to the top bar to do basic tasks in time consuming, and having to right click to do things that you should not have to hold down right click to do.
http://library.morph.zone/Getting_Started#IControl
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What filesystem is morphos formatted in also? I have so many troubles converted files to pc and morphos.
I don't quite understand this question. By default MorphOS uses Smart Filesystem (SFS), but it also supports many other filesystems, but what do you mean by converted files?
[ Edited by jPV 13.06.2016 - 21:26 ]
