Haiku

Reader supplied reviews for Haiku Average rating 7.2 from 16 review(s) What are your thoughts on Haiku? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- R1-beta4 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: R1-beta4 Rating: 2 Date: 2023-08-25 Votes: 0 I've been watching this project since 2014 and tried using it in 2016 but it wouldn't install on the old computer I had at the time (a machine built in the early 2000's). I saw a YouTube video earlier this year "Haiku just got awesome" and I decided to give Haiku another chance, and this time on my laptop (which is new and runs linux and windows perfectly fine) . I got it to install on a USB and it connected to the internet with my wireless card just fine, though soon after surfing the web for less than 5 mins with web positive it crashed. Tried it again but it still kept crashing and was slow (which surprised me because EVERYONE keeps talking about how 'fast' it is). I then tried installing a simple Super Nintendo emulator (bsnes) on it via the Haiku Depot, the installation almost worked and then it failed. So I tried something simpler, VLC player, and guess what?.. it failed again. Maybe the USB was the issue but I doubt it.. So that was my Haiku experience, needless to say I wasn't impressed at all. Maybe Haiku just doesn't like my computers I use lol. If I did get it to work I'd definitely have a more positive outlook on the os. Though looking at it's history and progress and seeing how it's STILL in beta is just ridiculous. A cute little project but a waste of time. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: R1-beta4 Rating: 8 Date: 2023-07-12 Votes: 15 Ok, so I used BeOS 5 Professional as my main diver back in the day and actually even used it as the heart of my PC media center. Then BeOs died :-( I just installed R1-beta4 and was pleasantly surprised to see that it feels like my old system, only better and very responsive. Compared to previous iterations B4 actually works quite well. I tried Libreoffice, Krita, TexStudio and GIMP without any major issues. I also found that Youtube worked on the Otto Browser, which I frankly didn't expect. Games like Sonic Robo Blast 2 and Otto Matic bought back memories and I even installed Yabasic and Algol 68G! Overall, this project is making significant progress towards a truly stable and usable system. I don't think I will give up FreeBSD or Linux just yet, but I will be installing this operating system permanently onto a spare drive on my 32GB Dell Optiplex to test it long term and maybe even do some actual work! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: R1-beta4 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-01-26 Votes: 34 My family's daily operating system... My children love Haiku and use it for computer programming. Very good apps I've used on Haiku: Office: --------- - Grafx - paint program - GIMP - image editor program - Inkscape - vector/bitmap graphics editor - LibreOffice - word processing/spreadsheets - Scribus - desktop publisher - Strawberry - multimedia and internet radio player - Medo - movie/video editor - Wonderbrush - vector/bitmap graphics editor Internet web browsers: ------------------------------- - Epiphany Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 16 reader reviews of Haiku...