I’ve moved all the EFI-related posts to a new topic.
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Support for games is not that unachievable goal thanks to the various game streaming cloud services that allow you to play latest games from a web browser. Services like GeForce NOW, Amazon Luna, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Boosteroid.
Hardware for Haiku R1 just has to stay within reason for most home users. There was the testing on the Mac Mini and Intel NUCs so I had looked at the System76 offerings like these:
- MeerKat - Meerkat
- Lemur Pro 14" laptop - Lemur Pro
- Thelio workstation - Thelio Major Custom
These seem supportable for Haiku R1… 
Still, 34 tickets remain.
One critical issue and five high priority issues.
Review the remaining tickets for current resolutions…
Summer 2025
Who knows what’s in there. Touchpads, wifis, etc. - they aren’t really saying, and my impression of the industry is that they may want to be able to change the hardware if necessary for whatever reason. That’s fine for their Ubuntu users, because System76 will check to make sure it works before they start shipping the new rev. Vendor support. Linux has it; so far as I know, Haiku doesn’t.
What about Moonlight, the game streaming client, is that ported?
7 posts were split to a new topic: Memory leaks in Beta5?
Also, we could add something like a single-user login screen. Like let’s just keep the single-user thing (one and only account is root), but like let’s add a login screen. No one wants their computer to be spied on while they use the bathroom, etc.
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This sounds more like you’re actually looking for the password-locked screensaver feature, which does exist already.
I guess that password-locked screensaver can be overcome by rebooting, so not a real replacement for the login screen. OTOH I don’t think it’s a must have for R1, unless someone is ready to spend their time implementing it.
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It’s a bit annoying that this offtopic discussion is continuing, because:
- Someone already implemented it
- They did the right thing and announced it in a new topic: Screensaver lock at boot time
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That implementation looks good. So security is solved, what next?
Get Beta 6 out now!
Then we will see if it works!