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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:15AM (#47516941)
I suspect it was a freak occurence, but I actually had incredible luck running Haiku on an old laptop back in the day. It was incredibly fast, and just about all the amenities you'd expect worked with no or minimal intervention.
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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by pabs3 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:37AM (#47517924)
In the last year sometime I ran the Haiku live image off USB on my only laptop (2011 X201t), it worked fairly well.
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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by cachius on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:23AM (#47517033)
Even running from an HDD?
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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by trinix912 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:26AM (#47517791)
I recently tried the latest version (Beta 5?) on a 2005-ish PC with an even older HDD and it ran surprisingly fast off that. The only thing where it was somewhat slow was web browsing.
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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by SuperNinKenDo on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @04:28PM (#47522737)
Yeah. I installed it to HDD and it worked great. You'd think the thing had an SSD ot was so snappy. No issues with compat on the drive or anything.
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Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS by nomdep on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:12PM (#47525120)
Me too. The laptop was so old that I couldn't play a 360p mpg video without pauses on Windows 2K or XFCE, but it ran smoothly with BeOS5 (the Intel-based abandonware version)
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