Loved BeOS, and love HaikuOS. But a "daily driver" it is most certainly not. Don't be fooled.
1. Lack of native / built-in support for full-disk encryption
2. Lack of a day-to-day usable web browser
3. Lack of the apps I regularly use on Linux and Windows (or good enough equivalents)
4. Lack of stability on the hardware I was using (Framework 11th Gen)
It looks like at least one of those is no longer an issue, thanks to Falkon. It also looks like there's been a lot of progress on getting Wine working and stable. If overall stability is sufficiently improved, then giving it another try might very well be in the cards, even without FDE.
I used the filesystem like it was indented.
The file manager Tracker (Finder / Explorer) allowed you to select any attribute as a column name. The filesystem indexed all attributes, so it was blazing fast.
For example, all emails were stored as regular files (like Maildir). They had attributes for things like: MAIL:from, MAIL:when, MAIL:subject etc.
It's a different from using a separate indexing service like Spotlight.
It got the track info from cddb, added the attributes to both the mp3 files and the BFS extended attributes.
There is a daemon running when I call `ps` that I see is called package_daemon. I think it is this one: I think it has exclusive access to a set of directories where software and such is installed. There is no sudo, su, etc. because you don't need it. hpkg files are loaded by the package daemon into the correct paths.
I looked at this a few months ago just to get what it is doing. It has to have some security model that protects certain paths at least. This looked like it.
Are those 3D graphics?
> desktop window effects and compositing,
Does Haiku use those? If not, it seems irrelevant.
> Video games,
That's the one that I'll agree with, but is depends what we mean by "daily driver"; I was thinking of what would be needed to do productive work, and that possibly restricted by what kind of work you're doing, not the ability to run literally all use cases. So I agree that it's probably not a good choice for somebody who does 3D modeling, but it's probably fine for somebody who writes web back ends.
Not exactly but all hardware accelerated rendering today is done using the same APIs as 3D graphics. You would use OpenGL (or any other API) and basically render everything without the third dimension. There is no hardware accelerated graphics API for 2D graphics specifically anymore, they are all built on top of 3D graphics.
Also, it's actually fairly unintuitive to even most computer nerds and professionals that desktop compositing, decoding and rendering video, etc. are all handled as 3D graphics behind the curtains these days.
Web browsers and such do also leverage the gpu for rendering.
Seriously; set up a xeon vm without a video accelerator, vnc in, and try using it as your daily driver web browser. 128 cores weren’t close to enough the last time I tried (6 years ago).
Though I may end up in that camp one day. I did quite a bit of that between graduating from college and getting my first job.
https://mathematical-research-institute.sydney.edu.au/news/q...
( Magma is a 1990s- second gen version of Cayley from the 1980s- )
Can you explain more about setting a timer for apple pies?
All thru the 90s and 2000s there were attempts to make a PC into a home hub. I think even facebook tried around 2018 iirc. It would be something that you put on the kitchen counter and that serves as a recipe database, conferencing machine, and a useful kitchen helper: such as, setting a timer to go off to tell you that its time to get the apple pie out of the oven.
The UI for such a thing needs to be simple and bulletproof. Windows and Linux dont meet that bar. I think iOS comes close. In another timeline, it could have been BeOS.
10 years later the iPad filled that roll and continues un-challenged nearly 14 years later.
Can't afford to do much on a machine that doesn't meet that bar.
Arguably live CD and encrypted removable storage which stays with you at all times is probably harder to defeat than most FDE.