A FreeBSD user tries the Haiku OS

I don't often look at OSs that aren't FreeBSD derived, so it's my honour to have a look at Haiku, an Open Source BeOS alternative that has been around for a good few years.
Is it any good? Will I be tempted to change? How many beans make five?
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:09 Downloading
2:14 Having a look around
10:29 Installing to HDD
14:25 Installing software and updating
22:31 Testing the software
28:17 A little gaming
30:28 Thoughts
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[craminal]

Great video mate. Haiku is just plain fascinating to me. I also think it has one of the best UI aesthetics I've ever seen. Found a cheap msata for my x230, gonna dual boot along with Debian 12!

[shaurz]

I've been following this project for over 20 years now. I cant believe its been that long. Good old Walter the Operating System 🐟

[nichtgestalt]

Very nice Video! I tried Haiku OS a view years ago and I really liked it! Keep it up! 😀

[JonathanSteadman]

Haiku os is such a great operating system. 🥰🥰🥰

[clintthompson]

Another great video. Also a great video to listen to while driving home from my Midnight shift. Haiku does have some nice features( when I have messed with the OS from time to time) but after all the years I finally want to see a 1.0 version.

[fmlazar]

The 32bit version of the OS will run the old BeOS binaries.

[subynut]

That's a neat little operating system! I just might give it a try!

[dingokidneys]

I like Haiku a lot. It's clean and fast and has lots of functional software that covers many simple daily needs. The only real show stopper is a modern full featured web browser. It seems that there are legal as well as technical issues with getting there, mainly as relates to non-free codecs and software. A pity but perhaps with time ...

[arampak]

You didn’t try the window management candy that Haiku is specifically proud about. That’s when you connect up windows from different apps into a single frame and move them around as a single window.

[RHTORAS]

Very nice video... now you have to show us the other unix... tribblix and open indiana

[samshort]

For a while back in the day I used BeOs 5 on my main system and I loved it. I also used it as a media server. I now have Haiku on a dedicated PC.

It is interesting what you say about RISC OS. Some voices in that camp would like to rebuilt RISC OS on Haiku, much like Mac on Darwin.

[edwardelliott]

Well Robbie you got a little farther than I did. I’ve gotten Haiku to install on a laptop but it had a habit of locking up from time to time. Still it was blazing fast and very responsive. It doesn’t have accelerated drivers but at the speed of the system I’m not sure how much it needs them. Just think if this project got a tenth of the attention one of the big boys gets, Windows, Linux, Apple. We’d never have Windows again! Ok, just dreaming.

[fdg]

It's a nice and neat OS (and super fast) but it lacks of multi-user support, disk encryption, proper suspend/resume and all in all, the 'depot' (software repository) has a mind of it own (sometimes works, sometimes is unreachable). I would seriously like to daily drive it but for now, it lacks of too many important features (for me). Let's wait...

[sbin-init]

haiku os was with posix based on microkernel

[amarantec_dev]

hello robo, could you bring a video about plan9? (actually about 9front since plan9 is 32-bit only)

[eaudesolero]

hello. new here. i used unix and linux back in the mid-late 90's. of course been using windows since ms-dos. and mac forever too. but ... i'm not picking up win11, i'm still on win8.1 actually, and i'm seeing everything microsquish is doing and i don't want it. as for apple, my macbookpro in 10 years old and still works great, but i can't upgrade the OS anymore because apple wants you to buy new hardware even if your old stuff still works. soo... been thinking about going back to linux. but seeing people talk about bsd. and i've seen/heard of haiku a little. ... i remember there were some other ideas for os's as well... what were the different ideas for os's all i remember right now is microkernel vs monolithic, and i can't recall the names of any others .. did anything ever go anywhere? and i heard you mention the speed you noticed with haiku, i mean seriously with the advances in hardware over the past 3 decades everything should be amazingly fast always, except people coded a bunch of crap ... i would be happy to have old school programming thought come back for modern hardware, without the unnecessary junk of today.... i got away from being a computer nerd and being in the industry some time ago, and just a normal guy now.

[Morokiane]

Really wish this could become a daily driver OS...I would switch to it no question.

[JoseGonzalez-szmy]

According to the history BeOS was almost selected as the new Apple OS back in 1995. At the end Mr. Steve Jobs won with NextSTEP OS as the base of new Apple's Mac OS X. -- It would be great if you make a video regarding NextSTEP OS as a way to compare BeOS and try to understand why Apple chose it. That was the way Steve Jobs recovered Apple's control. -Kudos

[sangreevolver]

I been considering freebsd and haiku OS for a few months, i been using q4os Linux and i used elementary os and Ubuntu for years. Im concerned with linux, since its being used by Microsoft and people are starting to find more vulnerabilitys with linux in general.

[Hanna]

Nice games... But how many serious applications can you get for Haiku OS?