Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 712 from 2006/5/28
From: Germany
yes MorphOS is excellent in its own standard, but it still lacks the most important thing: community.
There is absolutely nothing happening in the community, which on the other side wont be appealing to coders to port their stuff to MorphOS. As far as i like MorphOS, the lack of interaction, projects and spirit is really discouraging. I hardly use MorphOS on my PowerBook anymore. OWB is getting slower due to the increasing demands of the web.
Since the last year i am really into classic Amiga again. I have heavily expanded my A1200 to the max and it is still fun, everytime i turn on my machine.
I'd love to use my MorphOS machine more often and productively, but it really lacks essential software like a Windows compatible Word and Spreadsheet processor. Some new software (music streaming client f.e.) or game every now and then wouldn't hurt neither. But there's almost nothing happening. Too bad, because i really love the system. My expactations are down to zero actually. If something happens, thats fine. i will use the system as long as i have a benefit and see it as useful. maybe the transition to ARM/x64 will give us more opportunities and higher chances of porting software. New hardware is essential too. I've already had 2 broken PowerBooks and 1 broken PowerMac G5 in the timespan of 1,5 years and my recent PowerBooks right fan is already making noises... those old apple computers arent reliable anymore after 12-14 years of age.
Pegasos II G4 @1.0GHz, 1GB DDR Ram, Radeon 9200Pro, 240GB SSD+160GB HD, MorphOS 3.18, AmigaOS4.1 FE, Debian 8