disclaimer: i love my amiga 600. i've spent far too much money refurbishing and upgrading it. i'll fight tooth and nail to say how it should've been a multimedia darling in its prime had commodore known how to market it proper
but holy shit is it hard to do anything other than simply run games on workbench. i am struggling so hard simply to customize the icons
is it really just this asinine or is it that knowledge has been lost to time? i'm having to scavenge answers from 2005 forum posts
@mavica_again as a kid I thought workbench was great but I didn't have any frame of reference for any other GUI OS back then, idk how I'd find it if I used it today... I guess its biggest problem is it was basically frozen in time in 92, i remember as the 90s wore on there were loads of enhancement kits like MUI that were considered basically a must-have in the absence of any official updates
@lion yeah exactly the fix is always "use a bunch of these additions that you should know about because you scour amiga-focused BBSes several hours a week" so all the knowledge on how to make a decent workbench is lost somewhere in the thousands of packages in aminet with nobody to tell me how to use them
@mavica_again i guess old magazines like amiga format might be helpful? at least that's how i learned about all of it haha
if you ignore everything else that the amiga had going for it that was already completely squandered, if it had survived despite all of that, it's easy to see how the user friendliness of windows 95 would've absolutely blasted it out of the water