Haiku, unlike Mac OS, is barely known at all, even among highly technical and knowledgeable computer users. I'm a long term computer enthusiast and regular hacker news reader for many years and I'm just barely aware that something called Haiku exists (I'd forgotten until reading this article then vaguely remembered hearing about it before) and I certainly don't know it for its speed and ease of use.
I'm old enough and enough of a computer enthusiast to remember when BeOS came onto the scene. Even most computer enthusiasts today probably haven't heard of it and of those who have I imagine only a subset have heard of Haiku.
Now maybe Haiku really is great, fast and easy to use but I think it's a stretch to claim it's "known for" those traits when (perhaps undeservedly) I think it's more accurate to say to a first approximation it's not known at all.
In this regard it's nothing like Mac OS which while much less popular than Window, even my parents have heard of.
I'm old enough and enough of a computer enthusiast to remember when BeOS came onto the scene. Even most computer enthusiasts today probably haven't heard of it and of those who have I imagine only a subset have heard of Haiku.
Now maybe Haiku really is great, fast and easy to use but I think it's a stretch to claim it's "known for" those traits when (perhaps undeservedly) I think it's more accurate to say to a first approximation it's not known at all.
In this regard it's nothing like Mac OS which while much less popular than Window, even my parents have heard of.