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I use a highly unknown operating system. Are there others like me?

My laptop is a CR-48 from Google's Pilot Program for Chromebooks, and I haven't bothered to upgrade the SSD from 16GB yet. As a result, I need to use an OS that has a minimal footprint. I've tried Ubuntu, but even that left me with only 9GB of space after all essentials were installed. I heard about Haiku (http://www.haiku-os.org/ ) and decided to give it a try.

Pros:
-Minimal footprint, barely a gigabyte
-Fast
-Free
-Excellent rebirth of BeOS (http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS/ )
-Highly customizable
-Includes lots of software

Cons:
-Not all hardware supported (I've noticed that my trackpad, webcam, and bluetooth aren't 100% if at all supported)
-Early alpha stage (Currently on R1 Alpha 4.1)
-Lacking major software support (Latest port of Firefox is a port of version 3.22)
-No user accounts or password (I got around this by using PLoP boot manager (http://plop.at/ )

I really like Haiku, and I'd love to continue using it. But the lack of a modern web browser, and pretty much a lot of software in general, really turns me off about it. I don't use this laptop for much outside, however, mostly just playing old DOS games in DOSBox or listening to some music or lightweight web browsing (Works great on ChiefDelphi and the FRC Q&A portal).

This is what it's like to use an unknown operating system. Are there any of you like me, using Haiku or something else?
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