As usual it's a matter of what you're trying to do and how closely it matches the things the devs are trying to do. My only real attempt to use it lately was on an old eeePC I only really wanted to use for remoting into my home Windows PC and I ran into a bunch of issues with the only working RDP client (commandline-run FreeRDP). Waddlesplash even had to pick up on a post of mine here on HN and take it upon themselves to update FreeRDP to get to that point. It functions, but is seemingly unable to resize or even go fullscreen despite specifying the relevant commandline arguments, which on the tiny monitor is a problem because it leaves me forcing it to run in a less-than-fullscreen resolution that accommodates the title tab and moving it to the top-left corner.

Personally, I am not a fan of the reliance on ported-from-unix packages. Especially considering that there is currently no autoremove for the mountains of dependencies that they bring with them. If Haiku had containerization this could be more easily mitigated, but as far as I'm aware it doesn't.

> Perhaps I could try running it in a VM, but why not use the outside OS at that point?

My feeling as well.