[neom]

So it kinda came out did it? I remember seeing it in PC Mag, I guess 93 and thinking man Amiga is in a lot of trouble. My best friend at the time wanted one so badly and I thought he was nuts because to me it was clear as day the 4000 was the last Amiga, NT was amazing and from build 189 on, Windows 95 was clearly going to be good, and it was. I think by late 1995 I'd forgotten all about Amiga my friend never got a T because amiga died, and we all switched to windows machines. I still feel like if gnome and kde hadn't been in competition, linux would have stood a chance around that time, especially if Mandrake had gone more mainstream.

[Sharlin]

Windows 95 had Plug'n'Play going for it, even if famously it was more accurately called Plug'n'Pray in the early years. I don't think Linux had anything like that at that point, although it did get module support in 1995, so at least you didn't have to recompile the kernel anymore to get your peripherals to work... in theory, anyway.

[flohofwoe]

Plug'n'play certainly wasn't a reason to switch from Amiga to PC though, since the Amiga had that a decade before Win95 ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconfig

[neom]

You're right. I totally forgot about hand rolling audio drivers. Nothing worked... But when it did... It felt cool!