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Quite a lot of people use Haiku bare metal, and wifi support absolutely is present.


Are you one of them? I am curious what the experience is like trying to use it as anything like a daily system.


I am, although I do not use it as a daily driver, I have bare metal installs on two different computers. In my experience, it is very snappy, and always fast, except for some browsers, and wifi support for my specific wifi cards is there, and works fine, although not perfectly. In regard to using it as a daily system, browser-wise, especially since Firefox has been ported, it works well enough. Webmail can be used fairly easily, but most of the email clients available only support regular pop/imap authentication, and not oauth. But then, whether you can daily drive it depends on your specific use cases and hardware.


I would have loved to use it as my daily laptop one year ago but it lacked a password at login. Is it still the case ?


Yes, it is still single-user. Have you considered a BIOS or bootloader password?


I didn't, thinking it would be too weak but you're probably right. Will give it a try today for my last day off for summer !


That's great, let me know how it goes!




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