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Haiku! I run it in a VM and spend all my time porting SolveSpace to it. https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/1649892724227579909 https://twitter.com/realTa
by taraharris 3y ago
Haiku! I run it in a VM and spend all my time porting SolveSpace to it. https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/1649892724227579909 https://twitter.com/realTaraHarris/status/164989272422757990...
X512 (a prolific contributor) got accelerated Vulkan graphics going on it recently (on one old Radeon card), and it has an active community of people constantly working to improve it.
Sore spots:
- driver support is good if you've got old hardware, but I have to run it in a VM on my machine (a Surface Pro 8)
- the available web browsers are old. I use a newer WebKit built for it, but you have to build it from source. The snapshot I downloaded is 1.5 GB of code + an hour of compilation
- alt-tab only works if you put the keymapper in Windows mode (which forces ctrl for cut, copy and paste)
I run Debian 11 to host the VM, run FireFox and watch YouTube. Once I get to a certain point with SolveSpace for Haiku, I might try my hand at writing a device driver or two to make it possible to dump Linux.
Haiku has a very bright future in my opinion. This is due to its simplicity, excellent architecture and user friendliness. It is the true successor to the original Macintosh, built on the kind of solid foundation the Mac never had. In terms of adoption, it feels like where Linux was in 1995.