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> What would you hope to obtain that you cannot just by using, say, a customized Linux Mint? When things are coded right, Haiku / BeOS is blazing fast (every s
by SyneRyder 5mo ago
> What would you hope to obtain that you cannot just by using, say, a customized Linux Mint?
When things are coded right, Haiku / BeOS is blazing fast (every single thing runs in a separate thread), and resource usage is tiny. I think the OS only uses about half a gig of RAM? When the apps are coded right, there's a feeling that this is how our modern computers could have been, free from bloated software and using the full speed of the machine. And when shutdown only takes a couple of seconds, it makes you wonder what the other OS's are doing.
Of course the reality is not that. Display drivers & video codecs on Haiku often don't have the right hardware acceleration, most of the software you need is now Linux ports rather than BeOS native. But Haiku sometimes feels like a calming OS. Because it's so small and quite modular, it feels like an OS you can still potentially get your head around.
- tombert 5mo agoI like how Action Retro has pointed out that installing a fresh Haiku system is often faster than booting a Windows or macOS system. As I said in another comment, I've only played with Haiku in a VM for not very much time, but I am a huge supporter of operating systems that are willing to break out of the codified mediocrity we've labeled "POSIX"; I suspect that we might be leaving a lot of performance on the table by constantly trying to POSIX compliant all the time.
- nubinetwork 5mo ago> a fresh Haiku system is often faster than booting a Windows or macOS system. Faster than booting w2k in a vm, on a modern cpu, at least in my tests.
- HerbManic 5mo agoI have said that Haiku feels like it is simultaneously in the year 2040 and 2000. I glimpse from the past of a future we didn't get.
- bananaflag 5mo agoLike Foundation is in 50000 and 1942.