[asah]

Sorry I missed the marketing - I love that it's different, but who's the target user and what's the pitch for them to use Haiku? The author warned about backlash, but having a tight pitch is a key ingredient in continuing the warm vibes and avoiding backlash.

IMHO not-Linux isn't so scary anymore, plenty of people have fought with MacOS to get the better hardware, slicker desktop, etc.

Does it run Docker? If so, I'd love to see a solid integration where I can have bug-compatible linux environment for development, but Haiku for simplicity, speed & UI

[prmoustache]

I think it appeals people who want a fast booting, snappy OS with base low memory usage.

If you focus on apps using the original tooling/toolkit it looks very integrated. A bit less if you start using gtk/qt apps though.

Since it has some virtualization support it should be able to run docker/podman from a vm, which is basically what happens with docker on MacOS or Windows. I haven't seen a project similar to docker/podman desktop on it but this is not a show stopper imho. I would look at a project like portainer for people wanting a gui for docker that can run wherever docker run.

[0x445442]

I think for personal computing a single user, multi tasking OS is the sweet spot. It's too bad that stagnated with BeOS and Amiga.