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I've had the best luck with older "office PCs" like HP EliteDesk/ProDesk series and Dell Optiplex machines. They tend to standardize around the most common deno
by morganvachon 5y ago
I've had the best luck with older "office PCs" like HP EliteDesk/ProDesk series and Dell Optiplex machines. They tend to standardize around the most common denominator components like Intel or Realtek Ethernet NICs and Intel iGPUs and nothing too esoteric. Laptop support has gotten better recently, with many Thinkpad models from the past decade working more or less 100% out of the box in my experience.
My biggest issue running Haiku bare metal has persisted across hardware and form factors though: Stability. I can't seem to keep a machine running for more than a few days without a kernel panic or a frozen GUI. I haven't tried the latest snapshot on my "newest" acquisition, a Haswell era HP EliteDesk castoff from work, it's my project for this coming weekend and I'm looking forward to seeing how long I can keep it running.
- waddlesplash 5y agoIf you can so consistently reproduce kernel panics, it would be good to open a ticket. However, that has been less and less of a problem in recent years, and a lot more panics were squashed in the past few months, especially USB related ones. So you might try a nightly build and see if things are improved; if not, please do open a ticket.
- morganvachon 5y agoIt was indeed on older official releases on those older machines, I never got into the nightly builds that much. I will try both the latest release and latest build this weekend when I work on the new hardware, and I'll report any showstopping bugs. Now that I think about it, it definitely could be USB related on those other machines too. I've used the same cheap USB KVM for years and it has polling issues in Windows 10, I didn't even consider that might be the source of my issues elsewhere. I'll try it without the KVM and see what happens. Thanks!