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LOL.

Not at all. Mac keyboard shortcuts are explicitly more reachable than its Windows counterparts. Try reaching alt+f4 versus command+w/q. Also macOS incorporates more keyboard shortcuts than any other OS.

You will need to elaborate more on this one.

It's DoA for this reason. :)

Elementary OS is anything but suitable for elderly or non-techie folks.

Why would I want to run a whole web browser for shell access?

Hard pass.

Now if only someone did HQ Platinum style icons...

It's just that no one got around to that yet, also a login screen without disk encryption does not mean much. For reference, there's a drive encryption[1] implementation on alpha status, but it needs to be merged and reworked into the system.

[1] https://github.com/axeld/driveencryption

You could help integrating full disk encryption, and a login screen. :)

Current ARM porting effort can be tracked from this forum thread: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm-uefi-port-progre...

For more context, this effort is mostly lead by X512, the wunderkid, who ported Haiku to RISC-V platform singlehandedly, and a long time Haiku contributor already. The patches are not upstreamed yet, and it currently only supports Radeon Southern Islands cards, planned to be expanded for Intel and other AMD cards in the future.

If you would like to contribute, feel free to drop by the forums, and say hi!

While I understand the disappointment regarding new platforms and hardware support, current number of Haiku contributors is relatively small considering the list of things to attend to. Please consider contributing, every small bit counts: https://www.haiku-os.org/community/getting-involved/

Haiku is actually quite usable on a wide variety of hardware (I use it myself on bare metal), it only needs a browser port such as Firefox. Falkon has been ported as of yesterday, but still might need fixes and stuff.

In case the the graphics drivers are not supported, VESA and/or Framebuffer drivers come to aid, and provide a usable system.

Use, support, and contribute to LibreOffice. It might not be fast as Office 2000, but surely still includes its soul.

Catalyst is the stopgap before SwiftUI. Eventually we'll see all Apple apps migrated to SwiftUI from AppKit, UIKit, and Catalyst.

“Good Morning!” (Grinning like a Cheshire Cat).

There are plans to address this issue in the forthcoming months, so stay tuned.

Have a look at the slideshow[1] for some basic concepts.

[1]: https://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-1/

There are power saving features like turning off individual CPU cores, but sleep/hibernate/resume is not implemented yet. Any help is welcome.

If you open a thread on Haiku forums, I’m sure you will find a lot of help to help you boot Haiku on your hardware, even get developer input.

It's in the process of switching to QtWebEngine, which is the Chromium version.

For an open-source recreation of Opera 12, there is Otter: https://otter-browser.org

If you run into any issues, please drop by the forums or the IRC to get assistance.

Haiku is POSIX compatible, thus giving access to a wide software library, while keeping it coherent on the UI-UX side. Native applications are slowly coming through, though.

Kudos to Andreas! I will definitely try Serenity.

Hopefully this activity going on will help make alternative operating systems popular like Haiku popular among developers.

Have you tried Haiku?

As a Mac user, worth noting that this project tries to make it not just look like a Mac but feel like a Mac too. Kudos for this reason!

Elementary only mimics the appearance, it's still Linux (and all its bloat and unfriendliness underneath). Hello looks like it's trying to make it usable as the Mac too.

Ah, good old Pidgin (and Adium). Both are no-nonsense straight on-point software. We need them more these days.

I'll try NsCDE[1] at some point. What I'm really waiting for is prismWM[2], I don't think I'll ever look back after this (on Linux).

[1]: https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE [2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/jvnzkb/prismwm_in...

I appreciate the post, but I'm already part-time using dwm on a Linux machine, and I'm still struggling. The screen size of that machine is smaller, so it's acceptable, but I'd never be able to use it on my main display, it's just too much wasted screen space.

I think this is the most popular setup for tiling window managers, I use my terminal windows in this configuration as well (on a separate display). However, on my main display, I can't imagine going like this, most because:

- macOS "Zoom" functionality already takes care of the optimal content size.

- For websites, above zoom functionality works fine, but I prefer to manually resize my browser, since nearly all websites today have responsive design, and resizing gets rid of all the unnecessary parts, like sidebars, large margins etc. All I have left is the content.

- Today most application GUIs are way too bloated. I usually disable whatever I do not need, and use the macOS global menu search functionality a lot. I can reach any feature I want with a few keyboard clack. This way I can use software with minimal screen estate.

- If things get a bit crowded, Mission Control (Exposé) feature allows me to see what's going on very easily. macOS trackpad features also help a lot, with intuitive multi-finger gestures to see MC, show desktop, or show individual application windows.

- As a personal taste, I like to take the desktop metaphor a tad more seriously. I like to have file clusters on my desktop without the limitations of a grid, and file them to a folder later on when I'm done. Imagining my desktop as a real desktop just makes me more productive. I really cannot imagine myself using any other system other than macOS or Haiku just for this reason.