bmurphy1976 2 hours ago

How usable is Haiku OS in practice?

It's a delight to use, if a little esoteric at first. After the experiment phase, the software ecosystem comes up fairly limited. But I recommend visiting.

Here are some more impressions: https://kconner.com/2025/03/09/haiku-os-study-path.html

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OhMeadhbh 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The window manager might look a little old-fashioned, but it seems solid as a dev workstation.

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freedomben 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

What kind of hardware do you run it on? Has driver support been an issue?

	▲	HerbManic 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I run it on an old Optiplex that is a 3rd gen i3. No issue with drivers but that comes from its old (well seasoned) age.
	▲	easeout 34 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I briefly emulated it with UTM (QEMU) on macOS; the host was an M1 series chip. This story is the first indication that I might run Haiku on that machine's bare metal someday.

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jonhohle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was trying to set up an install for my HS age some to learn programming this summer with minimal distractions. I was surprised to see IntelliJ runs and they’ve integrated GNU core utils. A hello world program ran fine.

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makz 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lack of applications is my main problem

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altairprime 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On M1 on specific? or on any platform in general?