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/hug/ - Haiku User Group 07/23/24(Tue)08:54:08 No.101533451

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/hug/ - Haiku User Group Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)08:54:08 No.101533451 Archived

fast as the lightning
stable as the summer sea
the desktop- and I fumbled in the screenshot, shouldn't write these without checking them afterwards
the desktop for all
In this thread we communicate about the development and usage of the Haiku operating system.

Haiku is an operating system designed for easy desktop usage. It's inspired by the now defunct commercial operating system BeOS. Haiku shares many similarities to BeOS, for example its built in graphicstack and design philosophy: Sane defaults. Meaning it's easy to install and use, no tinkering required.

>Features
- Easy to use and install (Graphical installation and graphical configurations)
- Support for most soundcards, network adapters, trackpads (Drivers taken from FreeBSD and OpenBSD)
- xlib and Wayland support
- Many linux/BSD software available on Haiku! Examples being almost all KDE software (Kate, Krita, Konsole), GIMP, VLC/mpv. (Haiku is POSIX compliant). Other examples are most open source emulators and less demanding browsers as Falkon (blink), Ephiphany (GTK), dooble (Qt)
- Multithreated - Multiprocessor
- Elegant graphical environment (Tracker) including a snap and tab feature.
- Under active development, so gradual noticeable improvement as more ports and contributions are made
- Lightning fast

>Drawbacks
- Lack of hardware acceleration,
- Lacks popular software, examples being Firefox (port in progress) and Chromium
- No security
- Bad power management, no hibernation mode
- Under active development. It can have issues with some hardware compared to GNU+Linux for example

>Important links
https://haiku-os.org
https://download.haiku-os.org/nightly-images/x86_64/
https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/uefi_booting/
https://discuss.haiku-os.org
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/contents.html

>inb4 cuck license

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)11:13:48 No.101534761

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)11:13:48 No.101534761

bump

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)11:23:23 No.101534886

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)11:23:23 No.101534886

why should I use haiku over anything else if not for the novelty

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)11:40:13 No.101535114

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)11:40:13 No.101535114

>>101534886
>why should I use haiku over anything else if not for the novelty
it's a coherent OS which boots up fast and doesn't drag you into tinker hell. It's also fun to develop on with its API and has a nice look. I will ignore the fact that you don't enjoy the novelty, since some of it's novel features really are fun like its replicants (see the desknote, cpu bar and system info on the screenshot) and tabs.

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)11:52:41 No.101535289

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)11:52:41 No.101535289

Is haiku still bad at doing basic task like loading a youtube video or compositing ?

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)11:57:00 No.101535339

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)11:57:00 No.101535339

it will never have drivers

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)12:04:25 No.101535441

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)12:04:25 No.101535441

>>101535289
depends on the hardware, mine has no issue streaming videos on Dooble. Adblocking isn't perfect on most Haiku browsers, but indivious exists. The only issue I have with streaming is that I can't watch anything DRM protected on normie sites

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)12:35:07 No.101535836

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)12:35:07 No.101535836

i don't understand why haiku won't focus on ARM SBCs more
it's a perfect niche for it and would probably help then gain more users and contributors to work on the system

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)12:38:30 No.101535886

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)12:38:30 No.101535886

>>101535836
Network effects most likely. Linux desktop is mostly usable even for dumb normies if they are willing to learn it, and these distros have plenty of software support. You can even play emulator games on RPi SBCs AFAIK.

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)13:25:48 No.101536562

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)13:25:48 No.101536562

>>101533451
https://hoelz.ro/blog/programming-for-haiku-hello-world
let me get this straight, stdout is redirected for code under MessageReceived?

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)14:03:50 No.101537046

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)14:03:50 No.101537046

>>101535289
there's still basically zero hardware acceleration if that's what you're asking

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)14:12:05 No.101537138

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)14:12:05 No.101537138

>>101533451
Good news is i heard recently openbsd got vaapi support.
I expect this means at some point haiku can pull the BSD specific drivers they need for hardware acceleration.

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)15:09:41 No.101537861

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)15:09:41 No.101537861

>>101533451
Hi Kevin. Based

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)15:14:03 No.101537923

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)15:14:03 No.101537923

I have never used haiku but I am just posting to say I enjoy the icon theme

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)15:50:42 No.101538381

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)15:50:42 No.101538381

Haiku is good. It's a better user experience than Linux but the hardware support sucks.

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)18:02:24 No.101540779

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)18:02:24 No.101540779

bump

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)20:15:05 No.101542724

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)20:15:05 No.101542724

>>101533451
I'm frankly thinking of putting Haiku on my laptop for writing and basic web-browsing while away. Do they have SeaMonkey on there? I like to use SeaMonkey Composer to build websites.

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)22:48:41 No.101544484

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)22:48:41 No.101544484

do you people just look for memes to fall for?

Anonymous
07/23/24(Tue)22:57:59 No.101544573

Anonymous 07/23/24(Tue)22:57:59 No.101544573

Howdy OP I think your thread is kinda wholesome and cute, or something. I’ve seen it a few times. I think that’s sweet.

Anonymous
07/24/24(Wed)03:22:56 No.101546951

Anonymous 07/24/24(Wed)03:22:56 No.101546951

>>101544484
no