Would you swap to haiku if the final release were tomorrow?

[Dustin2128]

Let's say for the purpose of the argument, haiku skipped 20 betas and 5 alphas and became final tomorrow. Driver support is good, and it has a decent software collection. Bugs are minimal. (EDIT: to clarify, somewhat like linux is now) Would you switch? I'd certainly install it permanently on one of my machines, but my primary OS it would not be.

[jerenept]

Let's say for the purpose of the argument, haiku skipped 20 betas and 5 alphas and became final tomorrow. Driver support is good, and it has a decent software collection. Would you switch? I'd certainly install it permanently on one of my machines, but my primary OS it would not be.

I would switch without hesitation.

[cgroza]

Let's say for the purpose of the argument, haiku skipped 20 betas and 5 alphas and became final tomorrow. Driver support is good, and it has a decent software collection. Bugs are minimal. Would you switch? I'd certainly install it permanently on one of my machines, but my primary OS it would not be.

You are describing the perfect OS there.

[Dustin2128]

You are describing the perfect OS there.

Somewhat like linux is now- decent hw support, not too buggy, about the same level of software support.

[Triblaze]

I fail at keeping up to date and informed on this stuff, what is haiku and why should I care?

Wikipedia says it's some open source OS that's been in development for quite some time, what makes it special?

[cgroza]

I fail at keeping up to date and informed on this stuff, what is haiku and why should I care?

Wikipedia says it's some open source OS that's been in development for quite some time, what makes it special?

I think it tries to bring BeOS to the modern world. I have never used BeOS and I am not aware of their philosophy.

[Dustin2128]

@Triblaze
It's supposed to have amazingly efficient resource usage, and elegant design in general.

[cgroza]

Hmmm, watched some videos on youtube, Pretty neat, I would not mind giving it a partition.

[haqking]

you can get VM images from there site.

https://www.haiku-os.org/documents/u...nder_emulation

EDIT: Links seem to be down, not sure if this is a permanent or temporary thing

[Bandit]

I pretty much going to stick with Linux. Preferably Debian based. There is some crazy bug in Debian at the moment that will not let me install a GRUB or LILO when using RAID. Luckily Ubuntu has great software RAID support.