Ask HN: Is retrocomputing the pragmatist power user's future of the desktop?

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    The Haiku website. (Pull requests are accepted; please file issues at https://dev.haiku-os.org). (by haiku)

  • https://www.haiku-os.org/

    Both descendants of former commercial OSes and - at least in my opinion - way less bloated than the modern Linux Desktop.

    I personally use RiscOS as my daily driver and so far i am very statisfied.

  • chromium-legacy

    Latest Chromium (≒Chrome Canary/Stable) for Mac OS X 10.7+

  • > and current web browser support.

    You don't have to give this up on Mavericks! :D

    https://github.com/blueboxd/chromium-legacy

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    Mavericks also has something better than dark mode—a visual design that uses the full tonal range of lights and darks together to have higher contrast. A lot of the rest is only useful if you're in Apple's ecosystem, which I'm mostly not.

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