What does /g/ think about ReactOS?

>>57904320
Great idea but it doesn't work

>>57904370
Care to explain how/why?

>>57904320
A massive waste of time by people who obviously some great/rare skills.

>>57904320
it's as much useful as templeos
which means it's shit and it belongs to some autistic circlejerks on /g/

Better off working on WINE instead

It would care about it if they fixed support for ext2 system partitions

>>57904435
They share some code

>>57904379
Can't even play Skyrim

>>57904429
How dare you insult the temple of God, you filthy heretic

>>57904501
>muh gaymes

It's shit.

>>57904320
My future OS someday...I hope.

It's not unix-like so I'm not interested.

>>57904320
What version of Firefox is that running?

>>57904320
What is it? Linux? Unix? Neither?

>>57904624
Care to take a moment to briefly explain how that's a problem for you?

>>57904626
Open source Windows of sorts.

>>57904626
Neither. It's a made from scratch open source Windows 95.

>>57904626
Open source clone of NT and Windows.

>>57904625
Looks like 2. An old screenshot.

>>57904698
>Windows 9x
It's actually a windows 2000 clone

I think the most sensible thing the devs can do at this point is abandon it and merge with the wine team.

>>57904643
I'm happy with my current OS and it's not similar to it so I'm not interested.

>>57904320
Seems kind of pointless. Anyone who wants to run windows will just run windows, anyone who wants an open source OS but wants to run windows programs will just use linux with wine or virtualbox.

>>57904320
It can emulate... BSOD.

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>>57904320
Pretty unusable tbqf

Just look at these fonts!

>>57904320
As useless as windows replacement as it was 13 years ago. I like the idea but its taking them forever.

>>57905170
The address bar and stuff looks fine, but why is everything else so bold?

>>57904766
Install Haiku OS, which is actually usable and POSIX compatible

>>57905263
>actually usable
kek
>POSIX compatible
The flying fuck

>>57905263
and shit

>>57905234
No idea

It actually isn't as bsoding like last time I tried it

It's still extremely laggy on virtualbox though

If I was a billionaire I'd throw a couple mil at some full time devs to make it not shit

It was never as good as WINE.

>>57905296
>kek
It runs pretty well on real hardware, even when running from a flash drive and there's a nice selection of software available in the package manager
>The flying fuck
It just werks

>>57905674
"It just werks" isn't an explanation for how it's POSIX compliant. Are you a complete and utter mongoloid, what what?

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>>57904320
Don't know if it is just me but it doesn't seem to be ready

>>57905697
It a clone of BeOS so it inherits the same APIs, both the POSIX system ones and the C++ BeOS APIs for multimedia and graphics.
It also ships with modern versions of GNU tools so I've never had any issues with it.

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>>57904501
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJTL8srScQI

>>57904320
Crashes often and many programs don't work properly

>>57905745
What were you doing when it crashed?

I heard it was good

>>57906110
Install Greasemonkey in Firefox

>>57905170
I'm wondering where is the minimize/restore/close buttons

>>57905974
That's actually kind of impressive.
Is that VirtualBox? I tried installing ReactOS on my machine and it didn't boot.

>>57906181

Yeah, ReactOS lacks many vendor-specific drivers that Windows would ship with and so the only platforms that are supported "well" are virtual platforms. Virtualbox is the main one for that.

Which is also why if it runs on hardware for you at all it's total luck of the draw. Age of the hardware has very little to do with it. The only successful installs I've had on real hardware were with drivers pre-bundled with the ISO and typically they aren't very stable when interacting with ROS.

>>57904320
>ReactOS
fucking useless shit. it still cannot be installed via usb.

>>57904320
might as well run linux, use IceWM with the Fake95 theme, use wine to run some windows apps which works only half the time, at least that way when your app crashes it dont wipe out the entire operating system

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>>57905974
>ReactOS can run Skyrim
>switch can't

>>57904320
>https://www.reactos.org/wiki/Tests_for_0.4.3
Kek

>>57906835
this is what happens when you give cavemen modern weapons

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It's impressive but will probably never be useful.

>>57904320
When will they add botnet?

useful for looking up poorly documented windows internal functions. if they have it implemented can save the hassle of disassembling.

>>57907241
They're still implementing Windows XP. The botnet doesn't come until at least windows 7

>>57907342
Windows XP is built in with a botnet called WGA.

>>57907396
>he installs the WGA updates
>probably just checks the "install everything without asking, fuck my shitup" in update options
dummy

>>57904320
It's like Wine but without *NIX

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I want to learn programming just to contribute to it

>>57904409
Just a hobby project for some people. Not production ready. I doubt it will be able to catch up to MS with how few people are working on it and debugging.

>>57904626
>>57904717
Windows Server 2003 binary compatible kernel.

>>57904624
>It's not unix-like
Thank god for that.

>>57904592
Me too.

>>57906835
Switch can't? What?

gonna take forever for it to get somewhere

Looks like it’s from the nineties, don’t tell me it’s a modern OS

>>57906292
>ReactOS lacks many vendor-specific drivers that Windows would ship with
I don't understand. Couldn't one just install the same proprietary drivers? Or these drivers are bundled with Windows and not distributed separately?

>>57907135
You mean Americans being given tanks, right?

>>57904320
If they worked on the stability a heck of a lot more, it might be usable.

>>57908738

Yeah, sucks to be chasing a moving target. On the other hand, all the "new stuff" in the latest versions of Windows has either been botnet shit nobody wants, or some new donkey-carrot tech like DX12 that's there only to entice people into installing. By the time ReactOS "catches up", it may be too late.

Now if somebody made a WINE-esque compatibility layer for MacOS apps, then Microsoft would actually be in trouble.

>>57904320
The space before the exclamation mark pisses me off. It's a crime against typography.
I don't want to use the software of someone who thinks this is OK.

>>57914181
>WINE-esque compatibility layer for MacOS apps
Exists in an early stage
https://www.darlinghq.org/

Runs only command-line programs currently

>>57904320
Do yourself a favour and install Windows 7 SP1

>>57915366
>Windows 7 SP1

deprecated

>>57904320

I just read about it. It's really cool and i'm exited about. Will it work ? i don't think so but still it's pretty cool.

>>57904320
They're too busy playing catch up at a snail's pace. They don't have a human chance of catching up to Windows 10 before the decade is over.

>>57912767
I want to know about this too

>>57915698
It will work if you work on it

>>57915672
No, it's not.

>>57912767
>>57916126
That's the point of ReactOS, being compatible with everything related to Windows, even the drivers.

>>57905170
>Just look at these fonts!
Amazing! They look better than the actual Windows fonts!

>>57914227
>only command-line programs

So basically nothing. The wording on their website actually reminds me a lot of ReactOS's website from a few years ago. "Yes we know it's fucking nothing, but this is the foundation for something awesome, just you wait!".

>>57916083
They don't intend to. They are reimplementing NT5 (i.e. 2k/XP/2k3), not NT6/"10".

>>57916800
But why? A lot of new software no longer works for those versions, and the 64-bit implementation of XP was awful. It has no practical use and is only useful to hobbyists.

Holy fuck this thread is full of /v/edditors I swear.
What the fuck happened to /g/?

>>57916758
Wine started out the same way.
Feel free to contribute.

>>57914181
>WINE-esque compatibility layer for MacOS apps
Who would use that? The majority of macfags have a hateboner for everything related to Microsoft.

You know it's shit when they brag about lines of code on their front page. Anyone who thinks this is ever going to be relevant should lurking more.

>>57916922
The idea is to run OS X applications on GNU(-Linux). Windows has nothing to do with it.

>>57904320
I'd love to have the DE running on UNIX-like systems.

>>57916643
So the trick now is installing Ros without removing the vendor's drivers

>>57912767
>What's free software

>>57904498
>It would care about it if they fixed support for ext2 system partitions

At least they support btrfs :)

>>57917254
Like darling......?!?

>>57918596
Yes.

Not as good as solus

>>57905263
>POSIX compatible
Why I want an OS to be compatible with cancer?

>>57916848
>why
Because it's gud. Vista++ a shit

>>57916848
>and the 64-bit implementation of XP was awful.
it was only awful because it had no drivers for older hardware

>>57905745
That's just part of the Windows experience.

>>57904498
>ext2
Wait for next release.

>>57905170
What browsers do they have? Does flash work?

>>57904320
Dev perspective: time = wasted
User perspective: time = wasted

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>>57904379
Because after 20 years of development it still crashes and hangs just by file browsing. Its nowhere near a complete usable product so much so that even the developers recommend using a VM and not native hardware/using as a primary OS.
3/10 try harder

>>57904320
Crap.

>>57905745
>BSODs
So it works just like Windows

>>57905170
That still looks better than Windows fonts to be honest.

Does it run from CD/DVD/USB?

>>57929020
No it doesn't