Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
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#2Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.
Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
#3Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
#4At some point/place I heard it was going to have a ribbon type thing flow down menus. This would help follow stuff in deep drill downs. Really wish someone had done it.
https://store.kde.org/s/Opendesktop/p/1080563/
Personally, I think this OS has promise if it could get more modernization. It’d be nice to have another OSS GUI with some leanings into UI/UX.
Edit-modernizations like cross compatibility with linux, would be my guess. Think linux subsystem with gui support? Wonder what else…
Edit2-maybe throw in some modern stuff like swift (the apple language), zfs/bcachefs, and definitely a way to leverage already extant drivers.
Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
#5Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
Having contributed to the project, I still agree. In my mind it’s perfect for retirees who don’t need zoom or mobile syncing. The browser is quite good imo as is the email client. I really like that it’s (by default) a single user environment-ideal for an old laptop.
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#6Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.
Disagree strongly. I find its appearance 10X more visually appealing than any modern UI (win/mac/kde/etc). They’re all incredibly wasteful of space and chunky. Also, designers ruined OSX by making it flat and joyless.
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#7Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.
I wish modern operating systems looked like Windows 95, I think this was the one time Microsoft got their user experience right, except for the things that were forced on them by backward compatibility concerns, e.g. "in-band" filename extensions that were awkwardly hidden by later versions of Windows.
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#8Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.
That’s to a certain advantage though. There’s a nostalgic pining for simpler cleaner OS aesthetics. See the vaporwave and Frutiger Aero trends, and the interest in SerenityOS.
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#9I tried to use it as my mail client, I loaded it up and configured it, but it wasn't working. I did some very basic troubleshooting but couldn't find anything wrong and after a few web searches couldn't figure out how to find relevant logs to see what was broken.
I gave up and moved on.
Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024
#10Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
I have to try Haiku, but the last time I used BeOS everything effectively ran as root. Not that Unix-style user permissions are the epitome of OS security, but at least an RCE vulnerability in the browser doesn't allow for persistent root or whatever.