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I know a lot of folks think it looks dated, but I absolutely LOVE the aesthetics and icon art of HaikuOS.
by keb_ 6y ago
I know a lot of folks think it looks dated, but I absolutely LOVE the aesthetics and icon art of HaikuOS.
- fb03 6y agoI wish I could use a Linux distro as snappy as BeOS was! Is Haiku the same in that regard?
- moron4hire 6y agoI tried running it in a VM earlier last year and found the UI to be unusably laggy. It seems there were some issues with virtual mouse drivers or something and this was the "expected" experience in a VM.
- waddlesplash 6y agoNo, that's definitely not the expected experience for VM usage. Plenty of people run Haiku in a VM without such problems. QEMU/KVM is the best system to use, with VMware second, and VirtualBox et al. coming in last.
- mhd 6y agoSpeaking of Icons, I love that they spent considerable time to optimze those[1], including their own vector format so that they can store it in the metadata of the file, so that displaying large folders with unique files would be speedy. [1]: https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-sixth-day-with-haiku-under-the-hood-of-resources-icons-and-packages-abec8d0e4ec6 https://medium.com/@probonopd/my-sixth-day-with-haiku-under-...
- grishka 6y ago> it looks dated It's a real desktop OS, with a UI meant for a keyboard and a mouse. A rarity these days.
- yakubin 6y agoHaikuOS looks like an OS dedicated for desktop use. I've just gotten myself a Mac mini last week. Big Sur is the ugliest OS I've ever seen. If that's where the future is heading, then I'm not sure I want to continue using computers. I could use some dated UIs, such as the Haiku one.