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Will have to dig into this. Seems pretty, would be nice to pick apart the API, looks like Python with PyQt is what most utilities are written in. The crux with not being mac/windows is driver performance. It's a bummer it takes such a massive effort to support hardware.


Supporting hardware is pretty much what operating systems are supposed to do. Computation always supports some human end. Humans are doing a lot more with their hardware these days.


It’s based on FreeBSD so maybe the driver support isn’t too bad (?)


Correct, compared to Linux it's a redheaded step child. I love FreeBSD and the resources behind Linux are enormous. I wish things turned out differently in the 90s. Total tangent: If I had Musk level funding to allocate for a pet project it would be Haiku. A purely single user desktop focused OS which happens to featured grafted on FreeBSD hardware support. I'd love to throw a meager billion at it and shake things up ;) I do all my real work on servers as it is and FreeBSD is viable for hardware, just look at the PS4, so no shade at pulling drivers where you're able to.




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