Naming system to attract more users

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I don’t know if this will work but still you should see it:

Naming every new version of Haiku a beta might make some people think it’s unfinished.

Which means, if we finally call it a full release, it might attract more and more users thinking

Haiku is finished. I do understand even those betas are good even for daily driving, but i don’t know about someone else. What’s your opinion?

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See this recent discussion: What is the requirement for any OS to be considered as 'Released" – it covers the same ground and more.

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@gabriel12
There have been several threads lately in the forum that cover exactly the same topic. I’m not sure opening another one leads to any positive outcome.

It mainly comes down to this: The beta versions are named beta because they are not fully ready yet to be considered as production ready.
You can see the list of tickets that block the release of R1 on the Haiku bug tracker at https://dev.haiku-os.org/

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They would be correct.

They would be disappointed, because it is not.

Only if you are ready to use a beta quality OS. I wouldn’t set it up on my parent’s computer for example, they would be lost with all the problems and crashes. For me, it’s fine, as I’m not afraid to fix the bugs myself.

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Thank you for replying.

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Absolutely this ^. Most people willing to try Haiku are unphased of the word Beta :slight_smile:.
The only way to get more people to use Haiku is to get out there and show the world that Haiku can be used

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I don’t understand this sentiment. You can’t print a recipe from the webrowser, connect a bluetooth mouse of play audio on a hdmi monitor. All things people would take for granted in a finished OS. I think you’ll find that most of these work if you use linux, some variant of BSD, macOS or windows (well maybe except win11..).

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i mean for very basic needs, for example, using browser, nothing more (in an optimized OS like haiku, which requires much less than windows), and in my emulator (with haiku, ofc), i just saw what ~90% of everyone would look for,

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Haiku is still not ready for main-stream use. My wife cannot do what she wants with haiku (mostly using the browser for FaceBook etc.) and is not able to print from haiku.