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Greetings from running natively on a Thinkpad X230t.

@trashHeap how’s it running? Any obvious things missing?

@wezm It's snappy. It *feels* like BeOS if you ever ran that before. The whole thing is light and responsive. It has a way of letting the OS continue to feel responsive and snappy even if an app has run away with the rest of the CPU.

It's native webkit based browser chokes on anything too complex though. They have Otter Browser available and it's quite a bit better. They could still benefit from Firefox. But I could get a lot done in Otter Browser I think.

@wezm With both Libre Office and Caligra Office their good in terms of office software. Didn't see any calendaring apps available. Which is sad, I consider caldav kind of a requirement these days.

It's still a single user OS though with all the security that implies; and its in bad need of a NextCloud or SyncThing client or something of the like.

@trashHeap Cool, I've been following the project for a long time but have never tried it on actual hardware. I did run BeOS back when they were still alive and you could download it for free (might have been a trial — I don't remember.

The single user thing is a bit of a drawback.
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@wezm they had a personal edition for free and a pro for purchase. I *think* personal edition was limited in installation size.