9 month fulltime Haiku review

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I’ve been using Haiku as my sole OS for 9+ months now,
and I wanted to share my experience with you guys.

As for web services, I can do everything that I need,
through a combination of the browsers Web, and Falkon,
For some reason, Web is the only browser my online banking services accept,
I use Falkon mainly for Youtube, and any other intense web sites.

I had stability issues (due to my own fault, memory overclocking),
and my cpu was pegged at all-core turbo speeds,
so I had to disable turbo-core in the bios, it never downclocks,
so if you have stability issues, try disabling turbo and xms/expo and see if that helps.
Now the system uptime has been up to 5 weeks of daily use (24/7 running)

Update from Beta4 to Beta5 went smoothly, network responsiveness was noticably improved.

If I could sum it up in one sentence, it wold be “Less beta than Window98 when it launched”

Thank you to all the developers who work so hard on my new favourite OS,
looking forward to more improvements.
All my systems are now Haiku, Windows and Linux got the boot :wink:

Take care /Henrik

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I’ve been using Haiku since December 2022.
Nowadays, I use Haiku quite often,
though not as my daily OS
(this is Fedora workstation.)
I agree with you that Haiku is very good, for a beta version.
It’s main problem is a good browser.
I also use Falkon & gnome Web,
but they are not up to standard.
Haiku needs Firefox.
A reliable browser that opens all web pages
and never crashes.

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Haiku is my main OS here for years, only for a very “few” things I need to boot to another OS, so yes, kudos from here too for all those making this happen.

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You are right, Falkon crashes quite often, a solid web browser would be nice to have… Guess I am used to restarting Falkon now and then to prevent crashes, I can live with that, though I can understand others might not… Oh well, Im keeping my fingers crossed, the speed of improvement is quite fast now IMHO