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| | Ask HN: What's a reasonable microkernel-based OS for desktop usage? | |
42 points by xelxebar on Sept 11, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 53 comments |
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| Title question. When I say desktop usage, I mainly mean a full fledged browser. For everything else I mostly have a fully cli workflow. This comes out of me tinkering with more "exotic" OSes like GNU/Hurd and Plan 9. I've had fun with the Hurd and would like to learn more by running my day to day on it; however, the hardware support and tooling is unfortunately just too anemic to reasonable do this. Is this kind of thing even possible at the moment? Are there reasons to not want a desktop running some microkernel OS? Am I being unknowingly unreasonable in wanting this? Thanks! |
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Using a microkernel as a desktop leaves you in a generally no worse off position than using something like Linux or Windows. Unless you are intending to do specific high performance work, then you probably won't see much or any difference.
I am currently using a Toshiba NB500 netbook running Centos 6.9 as my machine due to having to support a number of other Centos 6.9 systems. But I am intending to shift to Minix 3.4 in the latter part of 2017 or early 2018 for doing certain kinds of development work that I am interested in.
If you have the resources and time, give a variety of systems a go and see what gives you a better bang for your buck for your circumstances.