ReactOS Reviews and details

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• Questioning "The Value of Open Source Software"

  Https://reactos.org/ implement some of the windows API. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste

  You can use Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/ To modify the ISO to turn off hardware check and TPM support for Windows 11 to install it on an unsupported PC. https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#user-content-Help_I_dont_see_the_option_to_bypass_the_need_for_a_Microsoft_account_with_Windows_11 https://aros.sourceforge.io/ https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos/ I know some third-world nations... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Microsoft Will Eventually Start Charging You for Windows 10 Security Updates

  I suppose you want ReactOS https://reactos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based operating system

  On a side note, in a universe where ReactOS[0] had comprehensive drivers support, would it be a better alternative to modern Windows? Or would desktop Linux? That's a fun thought exercize, at least for me :) [0] https://reactos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time

  Anyone tried ReactOS recently? Supposed to be a clean-room FOSS Windows NT compatible OS. https://reactos.org/ It's still on my TODO. Mostly cause my parents want XP back. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

  > It's whitespace. There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful. I wanted to see how LibreOffice would compare on my netbook, and frankly it's better than the new Word, but still "worse" than the old version: https://i.imgur.com/cWGYh3M.png That said, at least LibreOffice lets you have your custom themes and actually offers a variety of different interface layouts, which I think is a... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

  I'm currently using Linux due to this kind of hostile behavior from Microsoft on Windows. However, we are power users and the big masses won't care about an ever increasing misalignment between the users' needs and Microsoft's. We cannot vote with our wallets, e.g. By using Linux instead. It won't matter. What we could maybe do is contribute to projects like ReactOS[0] and make it easier for the layperson to... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• A free Windows-compatible Operating System

  And no news on the main page since March 2022: https://reactos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Windows XP activation algorithm cracked, keygen now works on Linux

  Just use ReactOS https://reactos.org/ it is free, don't pirate XP keys. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked | The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again

  I'm holding out for when Reactos is as good as XP. Should only take a decade or so. Source: 11 months ago

• Anything you wish there was an open source solution for?

  There is ReactOS (https://reactos.org/) an open source implementation of Windows. Source: 12 months ago

• Windows dosen't care

  Then there's the two clean-room reverse engineering projects ReactOS & ravynOS (formerly AiryxOS) which are both still so early in development (despite ReactOS already BEING in development for 20 years) that any new original app or game running could be considered a milestone. But I don't mean to dunk on them. The effort put into them is amazing, but they're just not workable yet. Source: 12 months ago

• Linux is fun and a challenge

  ReactOS intends to be something resembling that and it does share code with wine. Source: 12 months ago

• Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilation of the N64 classic

  Allow me to introduce you to ReactOS. https://reactos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Windows Xp Sp3 with Amd Ryzen 7900X & 32gb Ram + Radeon HD 5830 1GB by Sparty411

  If you have to run Windows why not an Open Source one? https://reactos.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Glitch OS design progress update

  You don't just take parts of other random OSes. Especially windows. Making an OS is a MASSIVE project that will take YEARS. Take a look at some of the non-linux OSes such as https://reactos.org/. It has been in active development for at least 15 years. Linux has been in development for decades. Source: about 1 year ago

• My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

  OSX seems fine for most people where I've worked. For the truly intractable Windows addict, maybe ReactOS? https://reactos.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• JavaScript is not "just for fun" 🙄 OFFENDED

  Given that the open source reimplementation of Windows is named ReactOS, you're closer than you think! Source: about 1 year ago

• Cmon guys, help the guy out

  That's what https://reactos.org/ has been trying to accomplish for years. Their source code is written in C, so I guess that's the correct answer. Source: about 1 year ago

• Alt-Enter Doesn't Window DOS Graphics in XP (Used to Work in NT and W2K) (2006)

  Why did I just read a 17-yo post about XP & DOS incompatibility; on a newsgroup archive that seems curated to alt-right viewership? https://reactos.org/ implements Windows roughly akin to 2003; dunno if that would be able to re-create this issue, but might be worth trying? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• BBS Door Development (Part 1) · retro shed

  Or you can run this OS: https://reactos.org/. Source: over 1 year ago