| [Author of the review here] It absolutely is, yes. That is how I captured the screenshot for that article. But the thing is that that doesn't let you get any real feel for how it works with the hardware. One big aspect, of course, is the performance. That's why I used one of the oldest slowest laptops in my testing fleet for the writeup. On a 15YO C2D with spinning rust, Haiku b4 starts about as quickly as Ubuntu from NVMe SSD on my day-to-day Core i7. It is impressive. Secondly the wifi support is impressive too. FreeBSD only supports some old wifi standards and the connection is not all that fast. Haiku talks -n and -ac standards and it's quick, as quick as this old machine's wifi card can do. It saw both my 2.5GHz and 5GHz WLANs, too, separately. Regular readers of my reviews of alternative and niche OSes will see that I usually try in VirtualBox first, and then if that is successful, I move on to bare metal. Depending on the sophistication of the OS, I may use an "easy" machine, such as a laptop with only integrated graphics, or a "tough" machine, such as one with two GPUs and switching support. Quite a few OSes never make it out of a VM in testing. Frankly, if something can't support the well-standardised virtual hardware of a VM, it is likely to fair badly on bare metal. |