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I'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.
by runjake 2y ago
I'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