Re:Why was that (Score 1)

Your characterization of Linux are oversimplified, at best, and wrong, at worst...

Linux need not be a server OS. Corel Linux (for better or worse), has been called the easiest OS to install, period, regardless of platform by a CNET review.

Linux is like any other OS in that it is the layer between the user and the hardware. It's a 'feature', in my opinion, that it can do 'server' type things. It's a feature that it can do these things and still perform graphically (especially with the new XFREE86 4.0).

It's nice to have something so versatile, that it can be used as a desktop and a server. I myself use it as a desktop (yes, a desktop). I'm running KDE, which is the most advanced GUI I have ever, EVER used. It un-ashamedly takes the best that other GUIs have to offer, and combines them. When I am in K, and I add a shortcut to my K startup folder, I'm not thinking about my Samba server that's running and allowing my WinPC to access my drives...

Linux, right now and today, could be used by a soccer mom...and I intend to prove it by setting up my mums pc with Linux running K. If my mom can do basic soccer mom functions using Linux, than anyone can!

By the way, you said Amigians were/are hobbyists, this is true...those 'hobbyists' turned to Linux...the people that turned to BeOs, at least in the context you yourself describe, sound like those people that used Macs and St's back in the day, not Amigas!