Perhaps they should have called it the Phoenix OS?
I’m building out a PC to donate to my kids’ school for the PTA and parents to use for various projects, and I am using FreeBSD 7 as the OS. It will be replacing a 233MHz screamer with Windows 98: anything is an improvement š
GNOME will look enough like Windows for most people, I expect. But if Haiku was further long and it had support for what people expect (ie, equivalents to the office apps people are used to) I would have been sorely tempted.