Browsers? Usable for the focused mind, lots of wip... For me, I have text editors, compilers, a terminal, and aws cli... I can wish for more, but I am happy with this.
2012 and earlier Macbooks pretty much work, I'm told (though you will hit the remaining NEC/Renesas bug I mentioned in the blog post, so use a USB2 drive until we manage to debug that.)
But yes, generally our hardware support is not quite as good as Linux's, so you will have a mixed bag in Macbooks. High-end PC laptops (e.g. Dell XPS 13) are fine.
EDIT: According to the comment below, it seems I was misremembering, and these problems occur on 2015-and-up Macbooks, not 2013-and-up.
So: I was surprised at how easy it was to end the experiment early and try out another Linux distro, even though I'll probably try out other Haiku releases in the future. The boot time and single-user configuration was definitely a nice break.
Such as? Haiku has the "workspaces" concept too (https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/workspaces.html), though perhaps not as full-featured as Linux's.
A really basic difference example though was that the default window move/resize RMB shortcut modifier is simply Alt in my Linux install, as opposed to Ctrl+Alt on Haiku. On a cramped keyboard this combination was fiddly. I also swap caps and CTRL on this keyboard in Linux and I hadn't checked yet if this could be accomplished. There were lots of things to look into.
I appreciate your response, and will probably try out Haiku again in the future. I liked that it was easy to install and test. Also as someone who uses QMMP a lot, I was very pleasantly surprised at the neat Be-style skin that came in its Haiku install. :-)
This you can already do; see Keymap preferences: https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/preferences/keyma... -- you should be able to just drag & drop the keys around to swap them. Or you can edit the keymap file directly to completely customize it.
> the default window move/resize RMB shortcut modifier is simply Alt in my Linux install, as opposed to Ctrl+Alt on Haiku. On a cramped keyboard this combination was fiddly.
We have a ticket somewhere to revamp the hardcoded shortcuts into the "Shortcuts" preferences pane; but nobody's done this yet. Eventually...