128MB RAM sounds huge for the early 90s - win 3.1 and word / excel of the time could fly with much less. Is the lack of hardware floating point support an issue to run modern apps ?
The speed difference with current systems is mind boggling. The original A1200 CPU is 2,000 to 5,000 times slower than a random N100 setup. one second wait nowadays means one hour delay on the A1200. This shows how much software bloat accumulated.
But there are otherwise thousands of X11 applications to run.
Yes, the bloat is unfathomable. Relative to how fast and clean AmigaOS and emuTOS are, on the same hardware.
Which is broken, and has been for years now.
Whereas it works on Netbsd, thanks to patches written by Netbsd developers.
I am hopeful they will eventually be upstreamed to XLibre.
Nowadays, you'd have a better experience on Netbsd, which still has developers who care about its Amiga support.
PCMCIA network cards work (whereas Linux got rid of PCMCIA entirely) and so does X11 (currently dead on Linux).
Running Netbsd current on my A1200 with 030@50, 128MB RAM.