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Comment by nickthegreek

2 days ago

I was super excited for BeOS myself.

I was a little surprised to have to scroll this far down to see BeOS come up. The first Amiga mention wasn't far above it either.

I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux software written for Qt has been ported to Haiku.

In the end I wound up with basically the same application software as on my Debian desktop, except running on Haiku instead of Linux. Haiku is noticeably snappier and more responsive than Linux+X+Qt+KDE, though.