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[Haiku] finally decided to install it (hashnix.club)
submitted 16 hours ago by to c/unixporn@lemmy.sdf.org
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  • Hardware: ThinkPad T400
  • OS: Haiku (amd64)
  • Theme:
    • Panel Background - rgb(39, 39, 39)
    • Progress Bar - rgb(50, 200, 105)
    • Window Tab - rgb(50, 200, 105)
  • Browser: LibreWolf
  • Editors: nano, jdTextEdit
  • Shell: mksh

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[–] 5 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

I love the minimal aesthetic of Haiku, it's really pretty...I don't know if it is ready for daily driving for me. But I appreciate what you've done with it!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 13 hours ago* (3 children)

    Thanks! My experience so far has been excellent. I have noticed that web browsers and the video player are noticeably more performant on this setup than on my main machine, which is eight years newer and runs OpenBSD. However, SuperTux2 is unplayably slow, and the OS would benefit from some security improvements (e.g. a login window, filesystem encryption, implementing pledge(2) and unveil(2) or equivalents, etc.) -- but considering it's still in beta, it's quite excellent!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I noticed that HaikuOS has been pretty usable, save for the issues you and others have mentioned about it! Given that building a whole ass OS is difficult, I understand that they are doing their best! Hmm, I keep hearing people talking about OpenBSD or NetBSD, one day I might actually try a BSD. But they need a lot of shoring up. Driver wise, and my hardware doesn't fit into the instantly compatible with a BSD category. So I would expect...Issues. Of course there is also the LLM issue, that the FreeBSD peeps have opened the door to LLM technofascists. It remains to be seen what will become of that situation.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Well, Haiku's drivers were ported from OpenBSD. If your machine doesn't support that, it probably won't run Haiku properly.

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    • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (1 child)

    Looks great! Planning on installing Haiku on an old laptop soon myself. Think its ready for daily driving?

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    • [–] 1 point 19 minutes ago

    Wait, LibreWolf compiled specifically for Haiku? or is it compatible wih some larger OS?

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