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I remember hearing about Haiku about a decade ago, and I played with it in a virtual machine, and it seemed neat, but I'm not 100% sure why it buys you over any

I remember hearing about Haiku about a decade ago, and I played with it in a virtual machine, and it seemed neat, but I'm not 100% sure why it buys you over anything else. This could just have been the virtual machine, but it didn't feel any faster than any other OS really, and the UI was fine, but kind of unremarkable to me. I'm not saying all this to crap on the project; is there actually an advantage to using Haiku in 2024 over, say, Linux?

christkv 3y ago
An os that nobody is writing zero day exploits for ?
- tombert 3y ago
  Yeah, and everyone is looking for the next "distraction-free!" setup, so I suppose it might accomplish that to some extent as well.
ianai 3y ago
It boots really fast. And the UI on some linux DEs feels laggy at times. This shouldn’t have the decades of cruft making the GUI lag.
- alpaca128 3y ago
  What Linux GUI are you referring to? The only one I could think of were the first versions of Gnome 3, but that is pretty smooth nowadays.
  - ianai 3y ago
    Gnome. Still. Of course modern web dev is not helpful.