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Forgive me but as I can appreciate the effort put into Haiku and working on a single user targeted OS, I still can't get why the people behind it like to throw

Forgive me but as I can appreciate the effort put into Haiku and working on a single user targeted OS, I still can't get why the people behind it like to throw darts to Linux from time to time. That "era of the Linux desktop" phrase is something even we Linux desktop users themselves will laugh at, as there is not such thing. Praising the positives of your work at the expense of the criticism of other's work won't do you any favours.

waddlesplash 4y ago
I think you are reading a little too much into it. Linux people throw darts at Haiku ("why would you ever use this and not Linux?" etc.) so it seems only fair we throw a few back. Many of us have desktop Linux installs, and some of us even have patches (or even have contributed significant amounts of work) in various Linux ecosystem projects.
- Gualdrapo 4y ago
  > "why would you ever use this and not Linux?" That seems to be a legitimate question, not a dart nor a criticism by any means.
  - waddlesplash 4y ago
    Sometimes it is, and you can see elsewhere I've given real answers to that question. But sometimes my criticisms of Linux are because, well, they are a real and genuine motivation for why I gave up on desktop Linux and devoted even more time to Haiku. It's not as if my criticisms are anything new, there's pages upon pages where Linux users and developers say similar things. I "throw such darts" here to make it clear how Haiku stands in contrast.
LeFantome 4y ago
I do not think they are throwing darts. My read is that they are making the following two points: - the “Open Source Desktop” is pretty much a Linux monoculture and they are an alternative to that - the Haiku philosophy is to offer a unified and consistent user experience vs a collection of a thousand independent projects approach ( the Linux experience ) - Haiku offers everything needed for a desktop experience under the banner of a single project ( another way of saying the previous point )

waddlesplash 4y ago

I think you are reading a little too much into it. Linux people throw darts at Haiku ("why would you ever use this and not Linux?" etc.) so it seems only fair we throw a few back. Many of us have desktop Linux installs, and some of us even have patches (or even have contributed significant amounts of work) in various Linux ecosystem projects.

Gualdrapo 4y ago
> "why would you ever use this and not Linux?" That seems to be a legitimate question, not a dart nor a criticism by any means.
- waddlesplash 4y ago
  Sometimes it is, and you can see elsewhere I've given real answers to that question. But sometimes my criticisms of Linux are because, well, they are a real and genuine motivation for why I gave up on desktop Linux and devoted even more time to Haiku. It's not as if my criticisms are anything new, there's pages upon pages where Linux users and developers say similar things. I "throw such darts" here to make it clear how Haiku stands in contrast.

LeFantome 4y ago

I do not think they are throwing darts. My read is that they are making the following two points: - the “Open Source Desktop” is pretty much a Linux monoculture and they are an alternative to that - the Haiku philosophy is to offer a unified and consistent user experience vs a collection of a thousand independent projects approach ( the Linux experience ) - Haiku offers everything needed for a desktop experience under the banner of a single project ( another way of saying the previous point )