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Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by HerbManic »

antics9 wrote: post #61

This weekend I installed Haiku on my old Thinkpad X40. It’s fast and surprisingly stable. Emacs, VLC works like a charm. Computer to slow for web browsing. The BeProductive office suite is a masterpiece of application at a 9MB download; although not open source. Then I installed Haiku on my XPS13 under KVM/Qemu. Everything runs blazingly fast. I’m thinking of maybe using that install for organizing my photos. The met…

Haiku is a good example of prioritising the user experience over benchmarks. Under the hood, broadly speaking, it is running at about 60% the speed of Linux on the same system. But in action it feels so much quicker than anything else.

That is not to say that they aren't focusing on performance gains, just that they have ensured the user experience is the top priority.

Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by mghackerlady »

asdff wrote: post #77
mghackerlady wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

well, to be pedantic, stalinist tendencies of socialism (and leninist inspired movements as a whole), tend to prioritise culture as a way to communicate the ideals of the party. Capitalism, in its most pure form, puts profit before anything else in any form of work

It isn't as heavy handed as people might have assumed. I can't find the exact quote now but there is one from a filmmaker saying they had more creative freedom under the USSR than the US. In the USSR there were some things you couldn't talk about directly but subtext was often fine. In the US there was that going on as well, but you also had the need for the film to make money and merchandize other downstream product…

I believe it was George Lucas talking about some soviet friends

Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by HerbManic »

asdff wrote: post #50
guyzero wrote: post #26

Sad that we'll probably never be able to run this on M1/M-series iPads.

So sad to me how combative Apple has been towards open source software over the years. The peak of the jailbreak era was imo peak mobile development too. So much innovation and rapid iteration. Anything seemed possible and anything really was possible if you put your mind to it and built the thing. Pretty much any good idea apple integrated into ios has been shamelessly copied without attribute from that crucible of…

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Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by HerbManic »

freedomben wrote: post #65
easeout wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first. After the experiment phase, the software ecosystem comes up fairly limited. But I recommend visiting. Here are some more impressions: https://kconner.com/2025/03/09/haiku-os-study-path.html

What kind of hardware do you run it on? Has driver support been an issue?

I run it on an old Optiplex that is a 3rd gen i3. No issue with drivers but that comes from its old (well seasoned) age.

Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by asdff »

mghackerlady wrote: post #82
asdff wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't as heavy handed as people might have assumed. I can't find the exact quote now but there is one from a filmmaker saying they had more creative freedom under the USSR than the US. In the USSR there were some things you couldn't talk about directly but subtext was often fine. In the US there was that going on as well, but you also had the need for the film to make money and merchandize other downstream product…

I believe it was George Lucas talking about some soviet friends

Thanks. I was even going to mention how George made some decisions in star wars arguably to further toy sales.

Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by HerbManic »

SirFatty wrote: post #15
oompydoompy74 wrote: post #13

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There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!".

We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more. And that's cool.

Re: Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

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Post by bmurphy1976 »

altairprime wrote: post #43
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #14

How usable is Haiku OS in practice?

On M1 on specific? or on any platform in general?

The platform itself. Like, can it run Firefox? Can I actually do normal stuff in the browser like watch a YouTube video or join a Zoom call? Can I run VSCode? Can I run Docker?
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