Comment by 🚂 methodius
Re: "Linux Drags In Unnecessary Crap"
@Vindemiatrix I have some hopes for Haiku as a less bloated desktop OS. To me it has "that feel" of Linux 20 years ago, although unfortunately it only supports x86/x64 right now, so no Raspberry Pi yet (although it seems possible to build it for arm64).
— https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/compiling-arm64/
Your comment made me wonder… it could be an interesting experiment to run Haiku on a cheap x64 mini PC and try to use it at least as a semi-daily driver.
Feb 03 · 3 months ago
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👻 darkghost · Feb 03 at 19:40:
@methodius I have done this. Well, I used an 18 year old laptop, but still. It works. And you can do it... with caveats. YMMV. You should know it is very buggy and the code is very unoptimized, meaning it is slow. Slower than lightweight Linux (eg MX) on similar hardware. RAM usage is less though. The main web browser is a trademark free Firefox running on some kind of Wayland to Haiku GUI layer and this has oddities with screen redraw. There is also a native browser called Webpositive that won't work on a lot of sites but is way faster. Lagrange is available but has an SDL bug that crashes it on resize. Maximize works though. Libreoffice is missing a dependency, install liberation fonts to fix.
🚂 methodius · Feb 03 at 19:50:
That's good to know, thanks! On a more recent machine it should run better, given that even cheap ones have way better performance than the best 18-year-old ones. Too bad that Lagrange is buggy: I was hoping to maybe use such a machine for Gemini and other "small net" stuff. Are you still using it?
👻 darkghost · Feb 03 at 21:45:
Lagrange works just fine. Just don't resize the window unless you're going to maximize it. There's kristall as well but it straight up doesn't work for me, emulated or on bare metal
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Linux Drags In Unnecessary Crap