This is just a curiosity of mine, the results of which will be in no wise conclusive of all MorphOS users, but I must satiate it, anyways.

How many of you all are Mac users first, that later discovered and installed MorphOS and were happy that MorphOS could be installed on your Mac,

or

how many of you all are Amiga users first, that only ended up owning a Mac by means of obtaining MorphOS, and were essentially averse to the idea of touching an Apple product beforehand?

Essentially it boils down to:
Mac OS X ====> MorphOS
or
Amiga ====> MorphOS

[ Edited by ppc-grinch 19.10.2025 - 10:10 ]

I bet 99% or more are Amiga users that continued with MorphOS when AmigaOS development stalled.

I don't care that much which HW I'm using, it's the software that matters. My story is C64 -> A500 -> A1200 -> Expanded A1200 (Zorro2->Mediator, 030->060, etc.) -> Pegasos 1 -> Mac mini. After going to RTG/AHI on Amigas and end of Commodore, HW became meaningless. Now I'm waiting the better version of Mirari as my main system, Macs are OK till then, AMD64 will be nice some day. You can't compete with the mainstream on the HW side anymore, and everything is powerful enough anyway. I don't care about macOS at all, but Apple HW is usually better than custom HW that is made in small batches, a safer bet.

Heh, just 99%? Make that better 99.9999% :p

I truly doubt there is even a single user (and by that I mean, *active* MorphOS user) which came outside of the amiga scope. I am also with jPV regarding hw and I am also tempted about Mirari but I don't find it so far much faster than my current Mac systems tbh. Perhaps the bigger version might be more tempting after some benchmarks and actual everyday usage videos are released.

> Make that better 99.9999% :p

Such accuracy would require at least 1 million users ;-)

> I truly doubt there is even a single user (and by that I mean,
> *active* MorphOS user) which came outside of the amiga scope.

I estimate that over the years there have been at most a dozen MorphZone members who disclosed having come to MorphOS from a non-Amiga context. How much of them are still active MorphOS users is anyone's guess.