ArcaOS, KolibriOS, AROS, FreeDOS, Plan 9, TempleOS, or even just an older version of Windows or Linux.

What’s your use case? How’s your experience?

  • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I occasionally use Haiku on an older laptop, just for fun.

    I mostly use my Linux box for gaming, so Haiku is not the best fit for this.

    • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I get ya. I use it on my Asus eee machine but it’s more due to the “because I can” mentality than anything practical.

    • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If the developer hadn’t gone off the deep end and lost control of his mind I actually think he was primed to make a massive impact on the industry. So much talent wasted

  • cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    What happens if you find someone like that? Temple OS has no Internet connection and is difficult to use. In fact, it is quite possible to use Haiku OS and even FreeDOS. You will just be using web versions of popular applications, that’s all. Even for DOS, there used to be a software package called Arachne browser. It is a static web browser, messenger, word processor and more.

  • I'm Hiding 🇦🇺@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I want to use Sailfish on my phone. It’s really intuitive and far nicer to look at than Android. I used to daily it three or four years back, and I picked up an Xperia 10 IV last year in the hopes it would get a release as the 10 I, II and III have previously. Alas it appears less and less likely each day.

  • bear_delune@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Not as a daily, I do like seeing what obscure and old OSes I can get booting in UTM on my M1 Macbook though

  • knowncarbage@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thanks, I’ve never heard of ArcaOS, AROS or MorphOS before. Always nice to find new things.

    I don’t daily drive them as they don’t really seems like daily drivers. I’d be surprised if even the devs manage that. Temple OS is really only useful if you want to align with the divine, Plan9 could be doable if all you do is code and appreciate acme but even then it’s a research OS that’s meant to be deployed on a network, everything is a file!, but seems to mainly target just running as a vm.

    I tend to play around with linux and bsd, occasionally even hurd, as they seem to have better potential for getting basic ‘daily driver’ functionality even in obscure niches.

    The Glaucus dev has an nice https://github.com/firasuke/awesome of projects that inspired them to create a beautiful little daily driver linux OS. I tested Glaucus a few years ago but my current systems are ancient and Glaucus is targeting new tech, which is nice.