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Wtcher

Gosh, I really don't want to go to Windows 11. I really like enterprise Windows 10, but detest the consumer version. I can't imagine 11 will be any better in that regard. MacOS, goooo.

Timmainsson

I don’t blame her in the least lol

Dan Merget

I've been a Mac user since Vista. XP was OK, but after upgrading to Vista, my PC became so buggy that I shifted to a mac laptop just to get by. Microsoft has improved since Vista, but at this point I prefer MacOSX. (MacOSX is built on BSD, so it's sort of a middle ground between Linux and Windows for those of us who alternate between a command-line interface and consumer-level GUI apps. Cygwin is OK, but Mac does it better.)

Zorin

Someone should tell Sabrina about Macs. :) Hey Eric, I'm curious, how much do you still use Amigas day-to-day? I find it fascinating when people use retro hardware for daily computing, instead of just as a nostalgic thing. I can't say I do that myself; I use a modern Mac and a Windows machine for gaming, but I do admire when people can make older systems useful for decades.

Dave Barrack

I have trouble imagining an Amiga would 1) still run if it had been in constant use for the last... 30 some odd years, 2) it would be able to interact with most of what modern computers need to do these days. I don't mean encoding 4K videos and running God of War, I mean, viewing a youtube video. I'm not dumping on Amigas, don't get me wrong. I was a proud owner of an Amiga 500 with the 2, count 'em 2 MEGA Byte expansion doo-hickey that plugged into the side. I guess I have no idea of the extent to which the Amiga 1000 can be expanded to.... Okay, a quick googling indicates it maxes out at a whopping 8.5 megabytes. Of course Amiga OS isn't the same sort of memory hog as windows, but the average youtube video is something like 500MB. I guess it might be possible to still interact with the modern world with a machine that old, but I'd also guess that maintaining a machine like that and working around its limitations would occupy an ever increasing percentage of your screen time. At some point I'd think brand loyalty would get worn down by fatigue.

Thwaitesy

A question that has just come to mind. Eric, when writing for Sabrina, who do you imagine voicing her?

Kaz Redclaw

Could also get a Raspberry Pi 400, and install Pimiga on it along with RetroPi on a different card. Pimiga doesn't measure up to the Vampire standalone though as far as being an excellent Amiga system, but it gives you a modern system that feels like Amiga. Of course, as far as the expense goes, a Vampire + a Pi would be cheaper than a single Windows video card, and *take up less space than just the video card*. ;)

Wild Card

I've used Windows for so long that I was just not comfortable when I had to use a Mac for my former job. I knew how to do things under Windows but not under MacOS. For Linux, I am fine under the command line but have yet to find a desktop that I like and won't go out of support in six months (if I could upgrade the OS version and leave the desktop as-is, I would be very happy. But the choice is to do both or neither).

Alx Porrini

Any console she wants. So……Skyrim for the Amiga when?

Logansryche

I avoid windows 11 like the plague after the update bricked my g/f's laptop so I feel the room.