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@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.

@trashHeap @wezm There's no technical feature the OS lacks for Firefox; it's just that porting Firefox to a new platform is an absolutely massive effort nobody has wanted to undertake. If someone with the requisite expertise does, more than happy to assist. Improving the WebKit port is probably easier in the short term.

@waddlesplash @wezm
I've seen lots of FLOSS OSes struggle with it. Some BSDs didn't seem too thrilled with the sudden need to support all of rust post Firefox quantum for example.

@waddlesplash @wezm Honestly im really really pleased with how far Haiku has gotten. The nightly I tried, really had me considering sticking around for a lot longer, rough spots and all.

@trashHeap @wezm Well, we have a great community, so do consider it :)

@waddlesplash @wezm Don't worry I am.

I have a lot of Nostalgia for BeOS honestly; and the project is clearly in a state where I can use it for a lot of day to day tasls.

The next time you guys cut a stable or semi-stable release, I might have to consider a permanent install on some piece of hardware long term.

In fact I kind of pray your arm port eventually gets running on a PineBook Pro via @PINE64 . That honestly would be impossible to resist.

@trashHeap @wezm We have so little development time that it gets invested in the x86 version that people actually use. The ARM64 port just got started, but who knows when that will be a thing.

Join us in Freenode#haiku if you intend to stick around, then :)