Linux or haiku?

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Hii, i’m glad that you’re reading this and I’m here to get your opinions on about using Linux or haiku, so the first question that I’m going to ask is do y’all like the fact that it’s easier to choose with haiku when it come to it bit support or do you find it more easier or better for it to be distributed rather than supporting bits?

The second question is more of in your experiences of using both OS from haiku 64/32 bit to Ubuntu and etc do y’all find one of them to be more disk heavy or more heavy at one specific thing, like is this OS using a lot of cpu or GPU or ram or disk?

And finally, the third question is, what do you use both for and if you had to choose one ultimately to use for the whole year which one would it be and why?

This is more of a survey rather than information

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I think most people on the board use both. Put it this way, if I were asked whether I prefer sandwiches or ramen better, I’d say it depends. :melting_face:

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Linux mainly, occasionally BSD, Haiku to keep up with developments, occasionally.

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May I ask, what make it depends?

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I suppose it depends on using the right tool for the job at hand. Haiku can’t do zoom calls for example.

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Just like everything in life, its a compromise.

Linux hardware support is great (eg multi monitor support), Haiku just doesnt have the dev support.

Linux is also very fast, thanks too many passionate devs. Lots of Linux native apps, from Haiku perspective Linux is mainstream

However, Linux desktop experience is stuck in the 90’s. Package management is stuck in the 90’s. Still better than what Windows and Mac offer, but way behind Haiku.

Haiku does a few things great, better than Linux. With better HW support, more devs, more apps, Haiku usage would be better.

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Linux is slower than haiku to be exact haiku barely uses any ram and can be booted from any sort of external device and haiku has touchscreen support along with the ability to outspeed any OS by far and has low RAM usage and has a rollback feature that Linux doesn’t have and rarely breaks but mostly everything else you said is right

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Almost all of those statements are wrong.

I don’t understand why you keep making these topics?
”linux or Haiku” is like going “Hey, you guys like bread or fruit more?”

It’s just not the same thing. And there is no competition, both work just fine in their respective usecases.

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Does it? (I’ve never actually tried).

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I personally think Haiku offers the better personal desktop experience - like Android offers the better smartphone experience and Linux (or BSD) is great in a server or multi-user role. As others have pointed out: There is the right tool for the job and that tool can even be Windows if you are in a corporate environment that has - just as an example - a grown structure around active directory and Microsoft services.

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Haiku from what I seen really does have very low RAM usage almost has zero bloat and does beat a lot of OS latency and it has a lot of optimized app, this is more of a compare and contrast situation rather than it being a competition and I make post like this to get people opinions or experience

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It’s not real touchscreen support, though it was more that, it treats it like if it was any ordinary mouse for some reason

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As is so often the case, it depends heavily on the task at hand and the individual. For many years, I’ve been trying to warm up to one Linux distribution or another, but so far, I haven’t been successful :wink:
I use Linux as a server and for specific services, but as »desktop«, the effort tends to outweigh the benefits - at least for my personal needs (design, UI, audio, writing).
Installing Haiku can be a bit more challenging on certain hardware than with popular Linux distros, but in return, I’ve found that I have significantly less work to do with Haiku during day-to-day use than with Linux.