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Genuine question; does anyone here run a GNU/Hurd based OS as their daily driver? I've always thought Hurd seemed pretty cool but the thing that stops me from
by tombert 2y ago
Genuine question; does anyone here run a GNU/Hurd based OS as their daily driver?
I've always thought Hurd seemed pretty cool but the thing that stops me from using nearly any OS less popular than Linux is always driver and software support.
- runjake 2y agoI've tried. It's not usable as a daily driver OS for most of the HN audience. You have to make a lot of compromises and really believe in Hurd.
- chongli 2y agoWhat sort of compromises? I would speculate that performance would be a big issue for a project that hasn't had the sheer number of eyeball-hours on the code like Linux has had, but I really have no idea!
- gjsman-1000 2y agoFrom previous Hacker News comments, there is a perception that even though Hurd is a microkernel, it wasn’t a very good attempt at one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320648 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11320648
- theanonymousone 2y agoDriver yes of course. But regarding software, I think now we can have a very decent and usable machine if it can only run Firefox/Chromium (but perfectly so).