It’s a bit weird that such a well received game would be blocked from being released on any platform.

No. Thinking about it terrifies me. I can’t comprehend nonexistence, and trying to make sense of it ties me in knots.

Is this as a child, teenager or adult?

If adult, that’s definitely not normal.

Child/teen I can see good reasons why they might.

For me the answer is never, but I was goody two-shoes and boring, so there was nothing of interest to find.

The problem with customisable selected state icons, is the inconsistency in the select state. Means it isn’t always immediately obvious whether something is selected or not. WB 2.04+ added borders around the icons to resolve this. Most of the time you don’t need them though, especially if people stick to the more modern GlowIcons style.

But otherwise, Workbench/Intuition did nearly everything right in terms of UI design. Close gadget nowhere near anything else you’re going to click on, menus at the top (pointer constrained by the screen, makes it easier to get to the menus), windows that don’t come to the front as soon as you look at them (makes it easier to rearrange windows the way you want them). If you want something full screen it can go on its own screen, and if something is multi window they can all be grouped together on their own screen.

Window drag bars shouldn’t be full of clutter.

Yeah, I’m looking at you especially Microsoft, with random toolbar buttons, search box (!), and lord knows what else crammed into the drag bar of your applications. So much so that there’s very little actual drag bar to grab should I (gasp) actually want to move the window somewhere else.

Which brings me onto windows should not all be full screen. Especially with the size and resolution of modern monitors, there’s no reason to have everything full screen all the time. But, from what I’ve seen, most people do. I think this is why drag bars are increasingly being filled with garbage. And probably why lots of apps seem to be designed to only run full screen size.

I do wonder whether the text next to the toggles changes depending on the state of the toggle. It seems to be arbitrary whether they do or not, leaving me unsure as to what the toggle actually does.

Swipe from the side to go back can be really annoying, if you’re trying to highlight text from the side or do some other operation that Android decides is a swipe from the side. I’m forever going back when I don’t want to.

I’ve not been able to find much out about this, but they do have one at the CfCH in Cambridge. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/36892/BBC-Micro-Red-Box/

I think I actually won it in a mini competition. I had an AmigaOne XE previously (also ran Linux but the hardware had bugs so it was quite flaky). I’ve had it since ~2018. Linux is (or was) installed but I don’t think I ever used it much, so don’t want to comment. The distro I have will be very out of date now.

I like AmigaOS but can’t really recommend it to people who don’t know the Amiga. There’s not an awful lot of software support. If you want to try it though, it’s a fast, light, preemptively multitasking OS. OS4 is a PPC-native version which will also run old software (as long as it doesn’t hit the hardware directly) through a built-in 68k emulator.

I have a SAM440EP. It can run AmigaOS 4.1 and some flavour of Linux, but I forget which as I haven’t run that on it for years.

The primary target OS for these is AmigaOS 4.