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Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by jbverschoor »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #11
givemeethekeys wrote: post #2

Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.

I could not disagree more about Windows 95 looking "dated". It's one the clearest, simplest, and easiest to parse UIs I've ever seen. Buttons look like buttons. Scroll bars are thick and clear. Draggable objects are obvious. It's a huge shame that we've gone only backwards since then, IMHO.

Enable "high contrast mode" in macOS.. buttons look like buttons and some more things.. The normal mode is way too flat / low contrast.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by ianai »

tombert wrote: post #14

I remember hearing about Haiku about a decade ago, and I played with it in a virtual machine, and it seemed neat, but I'm not 100% sure why it buys you over anything else. This could just have been the virtual machine, but it didn't feel any faster than any other OS really, and the UI was fine, but kind of unremarkable to me. I'm not saying all this to crap on the project; is there actually an advantage to using Haik…

It boots really fast. And the UI on some linux DEs feels laggy at times. This shouldn’t have the decades of cruft making the GUI lag.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by ianai »

steviedotboston wrote: post #13
Underphil wrote: post #3

Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.

leave it to Action Retro to lie and mislead viewers...

Are they known for that? They deleted a perfectly respectable comment of mine yesterday and I’m a bit wary.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by nightowl_games »

chrsw wrote: post #12

In terms of foundations and principles Haiku OS is more of a coherent platform that anything on the Linux desktop attests to be at the moment. In terms practicality, hardware support and a size of software ecosystem it is still very minor compared to Linux, which I find unfortunate.

These two things are linked.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by sneak »

helloimhonk wrote: post #15
Underphil wrote: post #3

Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.

If it works on ones computer I dont see why it couldnt be daily driven depending on your needs. It has a webkit based browser, and a native emacs port, thats pretty much all i use day to day :P

No 3D acceleration.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by lagniappe »

tadfisher wrote: post #10
Underphil wrote: post #3

Loved 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.

It's a bit different, in that it's a single user system for the most part, whereas the Unix and Linux family are typically geared toward multi user environments.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by snvzz »

chrsw wrote: post #12

In terms of foundations and principles Haiku OS is more of a coherent platform that anything on the Linux desktop attests to be at the moment. In terms practicality, hardware support and a size of software ecosystem it is still very minor compared to Linux, which I find unfortunate.

With a recent, working port of Wine, there's no shortage of software to run on it.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by lagniappe »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #11
givemeethekeys wrote: post #2

Haiku looked amazing and beautiful in 2009 when I first learned about it. Today it looks dated like Windows 95.

I could not disagree more about Windows 95 looking "dated". It's one the clearest, simplest, and easiest to parse UIs I've ever seen. Buttons look like buttons. Scroll bars are thick and clear. Draggable objects are obvious. It's a huge shame that we've gone only backwards since then, IMHO.

I'll probably catch heat for this, but I think Windows 95 was the pinnacle of UI/UX design, and much of what we've done since have been regressions.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by al_borland »

mtillman wrote: post #5
Underphil wrote: post #3

Loved 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.

I have to imagine the Venn diagram of retirees and people who are interested in trying more obscure operating systems, has only a sliver of overlap.

Though I may end up in that camp one day. I did quite a bit of that between graduating from college and getting my first job.

Re: Haiku OS: The Open Source BeOS You Can Daily Drive in 2024

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Post by alpaca128 »

ianai wrote: post #22
tombert wrote: post #14

I remember hearing about Haiku about a decade ago, and I played with it in a virtual machine, and it seemed neat, but I'm not 100% sure why it buys you over anything else. This could just have been the virtual machine, but it didn't feel any faster than any other OS really, and the UI was fine, but kind of unremarkable to me. I'm not saying all this to crap on the project; is there actually an advantage to using Haik…

It boots really fast. And the UI on some linux DEs feels laggy at times. This shouldn’t have the decades of cruft making the GUI lag.

What Linux GUI are you referring to? The only one I could think of were the first versions of Gnome 3, but that is pretty smooth nowadays.
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