reactos.org
It's not linux, it's a M$ open source clone:
"The main goal of the ReactOS project is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible with Windows ... such that people accustomed to the familiar user interface of Windows would find using ReactOS straightforward. The ultimate goal of ReactOS is to allow you to remove Windows and install ReactOS without the end user noticing the change."
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ionescu is very smart
So can I natively use windows programs on it?
Yeah, as long as the API calls it's trying to run have been properly reimplemented.
Lol okay m8
Oh, well that's pretty neat then.
It's insanely nice for finding info on undocumented winapi calls, a lot of them have been reversed in reactos now
they may make it vista/7 level in 10 years, reinventing the wheel
still better than 8/10
this, right now it's a good research project
if you want to know about windows internals, reactos has the most information publicly available
for practical use, wine can run more windows software
I tried it in a VM and couldn't get it to run shit. However, the O's did appear to be stable and the UI was basically a 1-1 clone of Windows 2000. Down to the processes and system files.
I was genuinely impressed.
they just released 0.4.4.
They are starting to add lots of functionality in these mini-releases.
FOSS BSOD served by russian haxorz.
was supposed to be 2010, but ran into some bugs at the last second.
Do windows drivers work?
I'm actually interested in seeing if steam can run and if it'll work with drivers.
So no?
>an even shittier version of WINE and playonlinux installed by default
It properly loads and executes PE files, the kernel might not have every API CA you want to make though.
API call***
yeah.
Also skyrim
Shit, that's cool.
I might give it a try.
Also, are windows viruses also compatible? What about antivirus?
>Also, are windows viruses also compatible?
Kinda, but i heard they want to try a different security layout from windows.
reactos.org
>What about antivirus?
Dont see why not.
What? It's true.
druaga has a video trying to install it on an old machine, failed pretty horribly. Big time buggy
He probable took an ISO from the front page, but in fact those are not being updated much. Should've used nightlies.
does it have any systemd equivalent to rape my privacy?
Will it run video games? Can it use vender-supplied windows drivers?
Maybe
It can run and use anything made for normal windows
> tfw Windows will be deprecated in your lifetime
feels good
So Windows without the botnet?
That already sounds much better than any gahnoo+loonix distro out there
It should die and take Windows with it.
Yeah, but the problem is, it doesn't really work. At all.
Remove yourself from Sup Forums. In fact, remove yourself from this universe.
does it offer better privacy in any way?
Not really, but it's not botnet. See
still sounds better than win10 anyways
A lot of the core apicalls are implemented, a lot of stuff actually does work
The only problem Reactos has is common among all opensource stuff.
Not enough money.
No money/donations -> no dedicated developers
No dedicated devs -> buggy/outdated/slow project
buggy/outdated/slow project -> no users
no users -> no money/donations
What doesn't work?
Good enough for office and games pre 2010 (or maybe 2012 on intel igpu)
way better than windows 10 botnet i guess