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Experiences with haiku and BSD
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In contrast to all this Haiku not only worked out of the box well but it also contained utilities to install proprietary firmware offline(yes i know proprietary is bad bu this is my only laptop) sadly usb wlan does not work(not yet implemented according to the devs).
Overall i had a much better experience with haiku than some of the BSDs(which i might check out in the future again)
Have you tried any of the two and what was your experience?
| I donated 10 bucks to haiku I hope they release V5.0
| And I'm here, wanting to try bsds but procrastinating for over a year
| Haiku is pretty comfy. I've only ever run it in as VM though. Real world hardware support on anything but The OS hardware comes with is still a crapshoot :(
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So far in my experience amd works great on amd cards :) i have tested it with an rx550 an 260x and an hd5760.
For older intel based graphics i recommend going to the boot settings(hold space) before haiku boot logo and chose safe graphics.
You will need to change it in a config file to do that everytime though.
Wifi is actually quite good if you have a specific Maxwell card some intel cards and quite a few atheros cards.
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| So i would like to share my experiences with the *BSDs first(i used my latitude d500)
First i tried FreeBSD.
It had a "bad si name" error i used a command to bypass that check but still the installer would not start
As for OpenBSD it worked out of the box but it had no firmware for my atheros usb wifi nor my intel wifi, so i decided i would install it using usb but for some reason it did not work. Neither did ethernet work (intel) so i gave up on that.(1/2)