Ooo, Haiku. I am actually very invested in this project, great to see it on Lemmy.
It’s definitely still very buggy but I love the design language and the general concept of it. Only downside is that Haiku’s userbase seems to have (perhaps inherently due to being an alternative to GNU/Linux) a strong anti-Linux, anti-libre and anti-leftist tendency.
Nah, not really.
I am still a contributor to the project and have it installed on my main laptop, but the tendencies are more of a social nature rooted in individuals there.
Just by being the only real alternative to GNU/Linux besides *BSD and *Suse makes people there cocky about how bloated Linux based systems are and about ‘free software extremism’ and ‘unprofessional conduct and design decisions’. The amount to which they support the nonfree corporate BeOS system uncritically beyond the inspiration is also suspicious.
And on a political note, when a random commie joined the Haiku Telegram group, some popular dudes changed their names to “<name> #FuckCommunism” and bullied 'em out.
There are definitely cool people in the Haiku project, but some individuals, even major ones, have a hardon for hating on GNU/Linux and hacker culture in favor of some centralized open source kind of thing.
Ooo, Haiku. I am actually very invested in this project, great to see it on Lemmy.
It’s definitely still very buggy but I love the design language and the general concept of it. Only downside is that Haiku’s userbase seems to have (perhaps inherently due to being an alternative to GNU/Linux) a strong anti-Linux, anti-libre and anti-leftist tendency.
Oh, that sounds bad! I wasn’t aware. Do you have links to more detailed resources/debates on this topic?
Nah, not really. I am still a contributor to the project and have it installed on my main laptop, but the tendencies are more of a social nature rooted in individuals there.
Just by being the only real alternative to GNU/Linux besides *BSD and *Suse makes people there cocky about how bloated Linux based systems are and about ‘free software extremism’ and ‘unprofessional conduct and design decisions’. The amount to which they support the nonfree corporate BeOS system uncritically beyond the inspiration is also suspicious.
And on a political note, when a random commie joined the Haiku Telegram group, some popular dudes changed their names to “<name> #FuckCommunism” and bullied 'em out.
There are definitely cool people in the Haiku project, but some individuals, even major ones, have a hardon for hating on GNU/Linux and hacker culture in favor of some centralized open source kind of thing.