Nice article that really focuses on the unique features of Haiku and how consistent the whole desktop is,rather than only comparing it with Linux like so many others do.
I strongly disagree with the first sentence “Nobody really needed another desktop operating system” because I really dislike Linux,MacOS and modern Windows and I’m really happy that there’s one little project trying to make it better,but besides that,I really liked reading it.
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I liked his honest evaluation regarding our Haiku. It seems from his statements that he is still learning about Haiku since he has no BeOS or Zeta OS background.
We need more people like him to look at Haiku instead of other influencers seem trying to meet a quota (IMO) and they do not take the time to delve into the OS.
Great article!
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Video from a favorite YouTuber of mine, Explaining Computers:
While he can be a bit harsh, I like that he’s treating Haiku like a mature beta operating system, rather than just some toy. 
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Whether he’s being harsh or not, I think of it this way sometimes no matter what kind of publicity you get it can be potentially a good thing
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He wasn’t harsh at all, IMO. A strangely funny chap, I like him.
Did anyone check about the problem he mentioned trying to create a partition filling the whole of the volume? I think I did that in the past with no issue…
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Without a bug report it’s hard to tell what fault he hit. I’ve never had this problem on my machines. :g
If you are using Haiku on USB, you cannot enlarge the partition on this very USB.
If the USB has 16GB it will stick to the installed 1GB, and you cannot fill the rest of the space… ?
Maybe I am wrong, maybe not. Could it be this?
I asked Chris Barnatt in a post about this mentioned issue 2 days before - no answer yet.
According to the video dude, the issue was when installing onto a disk and using the whole disk. So he chose a size a few MiB smaller than the whole disk. Nothing to do with enlarging existing partitions.
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Well, it’s acceptable as in case as Windows partitioning works - automatively left some unused space for some security mapping about 8 MB or so, if you select the whole drive to create one NTFS partiton on the whole disk. You cannot manage it – it will happen so automatically by Windows built-in partitioning tools.
In the video he mentioned to do this (BFS) partition size a little smaller than the whole free space on the disk and mentioned as it sounded as it has reasoning, like I would think about it just right after, an issue was in the background, he experienced earlier, when he has vaguely added the full space on a disk to the Haiku BFS partition, and there were some happened, that cost him related to, so now cautios and rather choose a some MB smaller size to create the one partition on one drive - installing Haiku.
He selected Haiku 64 bit, R1/beta6 to install.
He had not expressed the issue, as maybe there’s no issue indeed, just he has a habit based on Windows partitioning, when NTFS partitions created in one swoop on a drive, and as Haiku lacks it – as it not needed in case BFS filesystem and partition on disks (as I know actually) --, so he made the partiton this way, manually and deliberately a some MB smaller as the whole available free disk space.
In the other we do not understan this - as it was not expressed, explained, so we started to gessing : is it a Haiku issue , or not ?
Meanwhile the reasoning can be even anything else : )), smaller and not related to Haiku, just habit … 
Me personally asked about it under the video - we may get answer , may not …
The video was accurate and Chris did with Haiku, just as he did with other OS,
He did the Desktop tour, starting with Deskbar and its objects, the documentations – Bebook, User Guide - was mentioned. It was a quick tour, but honest and brief, but whole. He showed Tracker, and the filesystem availability via right context menu.
Showed windows tiling and all such inherited from BeOS, and about Twitcher also.
And finally he started to show with installed native apps - talked about them honestly.
He was really glad as Firefox was available in the Depot, but he was honest he had struggled a bit to installed it, but out of capturing he solved it. It was important, as in many SoC Linux Firefox is the browser that provided with those Linuxes, not some chromium based browsers.
He did not hided that however Webpositive capable to play Youtube right now, the users has better smooth experiens with Firefox and derivatives, He did his usual 4K video with ducks to test YT rendering.
He also tested Photopea web application in both browsers.
He knows Haiku, as he had not showed , but did scaling stuff - he used to do out-of-capturing - to be adapt to his vision and altogether to better fit to the review as he capturing and showing applications and any results - if he would get error message or anything interesting .. to show those in better and readable view too - for us.
He launched Gimp to show the general “test” he used to does with executing a Gimp – drawing with a fancy drawing tool - draws glittery spirals –
He launched LibreOffice, he just used to launch Writer , write Hello !, and enlarge the characters to the maximum size in the new document. Not checking saving or more thorogh just this.
It’ conclusion
“Nearly there”
and his closing sentences as Haiku slowly, but deliberately becomes a daily driver ( for not only the enthusiastic members here)
… makes a bit warmth awaken in our heart toward him, and Haiku’s near future as well …
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