Nother Amiga dude

[Caved]

Hi there,
Wanted to introduce myself. I am a long standing Amiga nut. Was searching for a half decent OS for my laptop when i stumled upon this diamond. I like it and i know linux fairly well. what was done with compiz here impressed me. My laptop now looks like something outof a movie LOL.

Few notes i had here:
1) No reason to lock cairo-dock down. or give a menu option to unlock please.
2) Wy on earth was winUaE added. I goto first emulate windows and then n Amiga while Amiberry is in here. Is beyond me.
3) Google search in Firefox doesn't seem to work for some reason, any ideas?

I added Pimiga 4 and Caffeine OS to this mix and enjoying every second of the distro hehe.
Keep up the good work...
Have fun!
Caved
ps. were are all those nice tunes i heared during installation? Kinda miss those haha

[LeoNigro]

Hi Caved,

I'm so glad you're enjoying Commodore OS.
Please spread the word, as your support is the only way to ensure its continued development.

1) I locked down the dock because I was concerned that it was incredibly easy for a user to screw the dock up as I have done so many times by accident. But you're right, and this has come up in the forum previously, that there should be a non-technical way to unlock it. I will be putting this in the settings manager, probably in the update that should be out in the next week.
FIXTODO

2) WinUAE was added because FS-UAE was no longer being packaged with a GUI as it was in COS2. Amiberry was a last second addition recommended by Commodore OS users both publicly and privately. Therefore, I kinda hedged my bets in regard to emulation, and wanted to ensure that I pleased everybody. Also the last thing I wanted was someone's favourite mode of emulation not to work as expected. Currently, Amiga emulation, triggered by clicking on images on the filesystem, run FS-UAE, but I could potentially migrate that to Amiberry, which has the added bonus of working well on a future Commodore OS pi version (which I really must get back to soon. Sorry, so much going on.). Therefore, WinUAE will likely be absent in the next Commodore OS version release, unless there are objections.

3) The search bar in Firefox is set to DuckDuckGo, which is a non-tracking search engine, I and many others like to use due to privacy concerns. However, navigating to google.com is something I do sometimes if I really feel I'm not getting as many results as I hoped. You can change the default search engine within a browser's settings. I didn't change it away from Google in Chrome though, so you could use that if you don't want to go through the trouble of changing settings. I'm not sure I'll package Chrome is the next Commodore OS version though, but just chromium. It may not be a popular opinion but I think cutting down on Google dependence would be good for everyone.

"I added Pimiga 4 and Caffeine OS"
I hope to begin working on a system where things like this can be added as features by checking a box. This system intends to make all the apps and games installations and retro content be optionally added later. This will enable a much smaller distro with features you can download later. Sadly, there are still quite a few promised things to deliver on before that is realised. This should be in COS3.1(Bookworm) or COS4(Trixie).