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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Haiku is getting pretty nice actually. With the Falkon browser, it may be getting pretty close to daily drivable for a lot of people.

I agree that it is a cool little system. I think the 32 bit version is still compatible with BeOS though I have not tried that in a while.

Hardware support is a bigger impediment than functionality at this point.