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I have Haiku as sole OS on a Thinkpad, not my primary machine but some days I'll work the whole day on it no problem - it's a really enjoyable experience in fact.

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I haven't tried, and I won't at least for a few months. But I looked at the list of installed apps, and I couldn't find a calendaring (iCal) app. If that exists, I and many others I think, could use Haiku "for real". Realistically, I only need a terminal and SSH (check) a web browser (check), email (check) and something with iCal. Since many organizing solutions (such as Todoist - no affilition, I just use it) has iCal integration, iCal gives you a way to integrate and sync with your phone, be it iOS or Android.

So if I had all that, I could use Haiku as my home/hobby tinkering machine. I would still need a Mac, Linux or Windows machine to do some other heavy lifting, but I already have three computers at home, so no problem.

There's a relatively sophisticated Calendar app already, indeed: https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Calendar/

It had working Google Calendar sync at one point, dunno if it still is. It could definitely use some work, though.

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