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?
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.
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.
I’m just waiting for someone to admit to using TempleOS as their daily driver
I want to use Sailfish on my phone. 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.
I wonder why they haven’t pulled the trigger on that. I haven’t kept up to date on Sailfish since I accidentally put my 10 through the wash
Not as a daily, I do like seeing what obscure and old OSes I can get booting in UTM on my M1 Macbook though
Any madman daily driving TempleOS is too powerful to be left alive.
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.
Does NixOS count? I’ve been using it for a few months now and love it.
Care to tell me a bit about it?
When Im on my long break, I tend to daily drive these uncommon OS just for the thrill of it.
Recent one was Haiku last year (on real hardware), installed it on an Acer Travelmate b117.
Everything was fine, except ofcourse the lack of software, sometimes sluggish video playback and ocassionally WebPositive crashing on sophisticated web applications.
My use case that time was browsing the web, watching videos online and ocassionally play some retro games.
All you can do with Haiku however one limiting factor is online videos because Webpostive doesnt support DRM yet and is sluggish on default Youtube website (Had to use invidious).
Does Qubes OS count? I’ve been using Fedora Silverblue as my daily for years, and Qubes really isn’t that different especially with the Fedora templates. The default XFCE4 desktop is UGLY so I had the tweak it a bit to be more Gnome-ish. (I once installed Gnome in dom0 but didn’t like the experience). I like the privacy benefits of Linux and disposable template VMs as well as added security with Qubes.
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.
