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A rare Haiku post (quokk.au)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by jcorvera@quokk.au to c/unixporn@lemmy.world
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It's been a while since I dusted off Haiku and gave it a shot at customization. After poking and prodding a bit, I am rather pleased with this one -

Using an image from the Unsplash package. Replicants on the desktop are the Activity Monitor meters, Weather (from the package repository) and WordClock (from the package repository). Within the Deskbar, there is WebWatch.

UI font is Montserrat, installed globally outside of packages.

I know it's not as busy as some screenshots, but I figured with the Replicants on the desktop, it's not as bare, as they are technically programs without borders.

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[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Whoa, that looks lovely!

I can't wait for the day when Haiku is secure enough for my threat model. It seems so calm and old-school, and yet both powerful and modern.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

What is your threat model?

[-] jcorvera@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

I love Haiku. If I wasn't a Steam user, it'd be my daily driver.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Wow, I haven't seen icons on a Linux desktop in some time. Throwback.

[-] jcorvera@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago

Not Linux. It's Haiku, a POSIX-Compatible clone of BeOS, a Media first operating system from the 90s, designed to be friendly and powerful.

[-] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Does its compositor has transparency support?

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Have they fixed the networking stack? Last I tried it outright crashed the whole system when I enabled IPv6 which makes it useless for me even just in a VM for testing

[-] jcorvera@quokk.au 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have not yet tried. I'll give it a go later.

Update: I was unable to enable IPv6 in the settings. I'm sure there's a way, but for now, I'm not seeing it. I'll have to poke around with Virtualbox at a later date to see if I can make some changes or something.

[-] varnia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

Haiku would be great as a alternative OS for simple usage if there was an actual browser (and office) available.

The lack of keybinds to manipulate window postions also hurts acceptance.

[-] jcorvera@quokk.au 2 points 1 week ago

Waterfox and Librewolf are in the HaikuDepot. As for Office Suites, I think I did see LibreOffice there as well.

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