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_sz6q

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    Comment #36567117

    Much more interesting in my opinion is another part of this same project - Windows 11 for the Surface Duo[0], which, given the much newer SoC, actually provides a somewhat usable W…

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    Comment #27958349

    This post on the Haiku website explains what's going on, and how to upgrade to Beta 3: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2021-06-22_important_change_re...

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    Comment #27957616

    There are two unofficial and incomplete hardware compatibility lists: https://sites.google.com/view/haiku-computer-list-beta2 https://besly.de/index.php/en/hardware/unofficel-compa…

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    Comment #27956868

    I'm not actually sure how recent this is. Clicking through the Wayback Machine for their FAQ ( http://web.archive.org/web/20150813135145/https://www.haiku-... ), it looks like they…

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    Comment #27956522

    I'd say iffy on the first. The native browser is based on a modern port of WebKit, but it's buggy and not feature-complete. Things like Youtube work in-browser, but not well (buggy…

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    Comment #27956483

    It's not my 'position' that there's a list of hardware; there literally is one (edit: and it's not exhaustive). I really don't see how Haiku "requires" you to take it seriously. It…

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    Comment #27956368

    The FreeBSD 13 reference is probably because Haiku uses FreeBSD drivers for most of its network drivers via a compatibility layer.

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    Comment #27956318

    Like I said, it sucks that it doesn't start on anything you own, which doesn't take away from the fact that there's literally a massive list of hardware it does actually run on. An…

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    Comment #27956192

    It's fine to dislike Haiku because it doesn't run on your hardware, but it's pretty ridiculous to assert it isn't an OS because it "can't run on an actual computer". Haiku runs on …

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    Comment #27956135

    That's only on the 32 bit version, and even there they also use GCC 8.