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Re:Haiku Beta 3 by pakyr on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:05AM (#27956522)
I'd say iffy on the first. The native browser is based on a modern port of WebKit, but it's buggy and not feature-complete. Things like Youtube work in-browser, but not well (buggy player, sometimes choppy playback, etc.). Wasm doesn't work. It's otherwise pretty functional. There's no Firefox/Chromium. There are alternatives to the native browser, but they're not significantly better.

It has the second, and third (Python 3 is ported). It's POSIX-compliant, so there's tons of Linux/Unix CLI stuff available.

There is a package manager with a lot of software, both native and ported. Many of the staples are available (LibreOffice, VLC, etc.), but there's also a lot missing, some with alternatives (there's no GIMP, but there is Krita, for example).

Overall, I think it's usable as a basic system, but you could definitely run into some issues with software availability and web browsing if you want to do more powerful stuff.

Re:Haiku Beta 3 by anthk on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:38AM (#27958212)
Haiku has pretty good native audio, video and image editors.
Re:Haiku Beta 3 by qwerty456127 on Monday July 26, 2021 @05:07AM (#27957272)
> there's no GIMP, but there is Krita, for example

I wish they'd rather port Inkscape.

Re:Haiku Beta 3 by anthk on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:39AM (#27958219)
I'd check for native software first instead of Gimp, as Haiku had a lot of background on media production. My 2 cent tip.
Re:Haiku Beta 3 by andai on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:13AM (#27959569)
Haiku's icons are vector based right? Is there a native Haiku vector art software?
Re:Haiku Beta 3 by Volt on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:59PM (#27964584)
There's a native icon editor.
Re:Haiku Beta 3 by MiddleEndian on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:57PM (#27967749)
>there's no GIMP, but there is Krita

Sounds like a win/win to me!