ReactOS: Free Windows Alternative
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- ReactOS is a free, open source operating system for natively running Windows applications. Here I install alpha build v.0.4.7 in a virtual machine and test it out, including running a version of PhotoShop.
The ReactOS website is at: www.reactos.org/ -- which includes an IRC help forum here: www.reactos.org/irc
You can learn more about setting up VirtualBox virtual machines in my video here: • Setting Up A Virtual M...
RUNNING REACTOS FULL SCREEN IN VIRTUALBOX:
To get ReactOS running full-screen in VirtualBox, once you have installed the OS you need to adjust video memory and install Guest Additions. To do this, with ReactOS not running, in VirtualBox select the ReactOS virtual machine, and then click on “Settings” and “Display” and drag the video memory slider across to 128MB (you may get away with less, but for me 128MB worked). Then launch ReactOS, and in the VirtualBox “Devices” menu, select “Insert Guest Additions CD Image”. Next, in ReactOS, open MyComputer and then the “VBOXADDITIONS” virtual CD drive (probably d:), and double-click the file “VBoxWindowsAdditons.exe”. Follow through with this process, including the involved reboot of ReactOS, and you should find that you can enter full screen (using Right-Ctrl and “F”, unless you have remapped the host key). You will need to cross your fingers and maybe start again and repeat the process to get things working. ReactOS is in alpha, and it took me some time to get this working OK - which is why in the video I referred you to instructions here! Or you can simply test ReactOS in 800x600. :)
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Hello from the ReactOS Team! Thank you for the video!
Just FYI ReactOS 0.4.8 will be released in few days or weeks!
Really nice video!
Great news) Gonna try it on my rigs
Keep up the good work. Optimize it for gaming please. Or at least you made special gaming edition
Cordelia & Zavier Odang That _can_ be quite hard if you're just a group of hobbyists developing an OS.
ReactOS is *very* lightweight, so there is nothing to optimize for gaming. Only to fix known latency bugs in the current sound system code.
Hello again!
Just FYI ReactOS 0.4.12 will be released in few hours. It will feature a LOT of stability improvements and bug fixes as well new features!
I have made a note to take a look! :)
Does it work with win 10 programs? steam games for example
@@isspankasppoza3994 It's not for daily driver (yet)
Its gets stuck on boot just before video installation. I had the same problem when i tried bliss os. I am using lenovo g560 laptop with 6gb ram
This is giving me incredible Windows 98 nostalgic vibes.
Isn't it funny how MS "developed" Windows into a bloated & unintuitive OS that takes up unlimited RAM & hardware resources !! 😩
I'm still running XP & happy enough with it. I DO hope the React team don't make the same mistake & continually tinker with it unless its for serious benefit .🙄
@@peterfitzpatrick7032 I'm with ya there bud. I had to upgrade to 7 to continue running my media software, and made the mistake of going to 10. If I could go back to the simplicity of XP would be great.
95 to me
Windows 95 mainly used the old Windows 16-colour palette for its default colour scheme (grey for windows, teal backdrop), and the title bars were flat. 98 brought in the horizontal gradient on the title bars, and the softer colours are much closer to Me/2000.
@@satunnainenkatselija4478 it reminded me of 2000 since it has the classic windows theme but is modeled after an NT system.
The promise of low bloat and no spyware is attractive.
if that's what you want then go Linux. Any MS like system will bloat with whatever is installed on it.
you can go windows LTSB for that too. it's literally windows 10 without any non-essential app and massively less frequent updates (once every 2 years) by default.
@@GraveUypo true, but LTSB is available for VL only. Can't get it for personal use (unless illegally)
@DAudIcI that's no problem with safe browsing practices, common sense is the best anti-virus
@@crankfiend5309
"common sense is the best anti-virus"
Nobody with common sense says this.
Hello again!
Just FYI ReactOS 0.4.9 will be released in few days. It will feature a lot of stability improvements.
I will check this out.
Just released 0.4.9 today =)
I'm on Linux so how does this do with viruses and malware? I'll assume this will be the gamers alternative for linux.
not entirely sure about that, since valve has released Proton, which enables Linux users to play Steam Windows games on Linux. Based on Wine, it's not perfect yet, but quite the few Games run on it.
It runs exe files right? what is it based on?,( for eg Debian is a linux distro)
Before this video, I always thought ReactOS was just another Linux distribution, as a free Windows alternative. After learning it can run Windows apps, that's quite impressive!
Amazing project - the amount of work involved must have been immense. Although I use Windows 10 successfully, ReactOS reminds me how much better the original Windows UI was. Never understood why Microsoft made such a radical change in Windows 8.
I love ReactOS -- they have been through hell from the project's inception, to MS lawsuits, etc, etc. If more people would contribute, it would become an epic hybrid to support Linux/MS products.
ReactOS is nice. Worth a spin. But MS lawsuits? Where have you been? This is nothing! Some years ago, a galactic sized lawsuit had SCO trying to sue IBM because SCO bought Unix from Novell, but not the proprietary name (or something similar). SCO charged IBM with putting code into their version of Unix (AIX) without permission from SCO. Even Linux got somehow involved. If SCO won, it would have meant everyone using Linux would have to pay a $2,500.00 to $5,000.00 license to use Linux. Many people said that Microsoft was funding SCO so anyone using Linux would either pay the license fee to SCO, or take it off & go back to Windows. I believe the lawsuit is finally over. But both SCO & Microsoft are lower than whale shit at the bottom of the ocean. Thanks for taking your time out reading this. And yes, everything is true. Just Google SCO vs IBM lawsuit and everything will be explained best.
@lucy fair How is this relevant to the original comment at all lol
@@elijahhmarshall it isn't. he replied to someone else and you can see it.
@lucy fair laughable comment
Fantastic Chris. I love the idea of open source OSs and since your video on Virtual Box, I've been playing with Linux more. I plan to give ReactOS a try too, when time permits.
You always manage to keep us informed of interesting stuff. Thank you.
I check every 8-10 years how's ReactOS is doing. Quite impressive.
its just a few steps away from the first 64-bit build. then the fun gets started
Fun ? Rather another 10 years before 64bit version will be usable...
feel free to contribute code so it doesn't take so long ;)
I was thinking the same thing. If I had the money, I'd offer a million each to ReactOS and Linux Wine for a partnership or something. Anything is better than IMHO Windows 10 spyware. *BTW, if you look at recent video of NSA leadership talking about Microsoft, you'll see how pleased they are with M$.*
You do not need money with open software, That's the point.
Wow. This looks like Windows when Windows was made to get work done efficiently. I really hope this goes somewhere. If I never have to make ties with Windows 10, I will be happy!
lucy fair,
Windows 7 Forever!
Windows 11 makes Windows 10 look like Windows 7 (it's terrible).
I run about two programs on Windows. I have largely moved all of my work over to MacOS.
Wine doesn’t always run what I need it to run so ReactOS will be just the thing for me.
Kudos to the team for building an OS from the ground up that in all likelihood is superior to Windows.
Thanks Christopher for the informative video!
They did a really good job giving it "The Look And Feel". This should be very attractive to people wanting a traditional desktop experience.
Thanks for bringing ReactOS to the attention of computer users. I am very impressed how close the interface was to Windows 7 or Windows XP (in the classic view) or Windows 2000. There a few times during the presentation I almost forget you not demonstrating pre- Windows 8 version of windows.
I greatly appreciate your work on UA-cam. Keep it up!
been watching this OS team for years,.. thank you for highlighting it. awesome channel.
I quite like this. I downloaded it and installed in on Virtualbox along with your video.
They did a good job capturing a turn on of Millennium/Early 2000's Windows feel. If you know your way around Windows of the time this has a very similar look and set up to it. I look forward to continuing releases of ReactOS and getting a full stable release.
Another good video, informative and entertaining as always. Thanks very much Christopher.
Very smooth job on the fast forwards! They re not distracting at all and the audio doesn't feel disconnected from the video shown.
Keep the old version of Paint and they will win the market!
Ahh miss that thing
Looks like this will provide exactly what I want from an OS when it is ready. Clean, basic and unobtrusive interface with broad program support for the applications I want to use. I can really get behind this one!
This is definitely on my list of "things I physically can't wait to be finished"
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 brings back memories, first version of Photoshop I ever used way back in high school.
Chrissehchan I think that's the version I used in high school, also. That install box and launcher window looked very familiar. If you're interested in a Photoshop alternative, there's an open-source program called GIMP, which I think is *very* similar to this version of Photoshop.
I still prefer the "classic windows" look over the modern tiles and transparency effects
I so agree.
I still use Windows 7 with classic mode for years!
I just turn these features off in Windows 10
yeah, the new design sucks, the windows aero theme was at least sekuomorphic, the themes in windows 8 and 10 are the worst, lifeless sterile flat design
I prefer the opposite, just a flat theme like Pop without the transparency effects and modern tiles.
You're definitely in my top ten list of favorite people! :) I'd never heard of this project before. Thank you. I've got it on a virtual machine now and look forward to watching it's progress. I hope I can make a few donations along the way to their success!
8:56 I had 2 same HDD slots installer on my previous desk PC.
And the interface make me want to try it out!
I love this old style.
ReactOS is very impressive right now! Snappy and feels like home. Believe I will try it on a clean SATA SSD drive in an older retired Dell 2005 box and see how some of my favorite legacy Windows apps run. I like Win 10 Pro but it is refreshing to see a clean slim older GUI like ReactOS. Thanks for the demo.
I wish they get released in next 5 years
Did you use this as os on your old computer yet, how is it? How do i burn this os on cd to do that also?
Photoshop demo is pretty amazing. This encourages me to attempt to install Logic Audio 5.5 in ReactOS, wish me luck!
When this project started years ago I did not expect it to ever be functional at all. I have to say that even with the problems I'm impressed.
NICE to see this OS project up and running again!
I have to say I followed this from the beginning. Very impressive and I do remember when the team were forced into a massive code audit. This put the project behind, but where its got to now is superb. As Chris clearly demonstrates, it's got to the point where more 'complex' apps are installing natively and running without any major glitches. Adobe is such an example. I reckon CS2 might be alright as well. I know that lot in Redmond are worried about it. For anyone who doesn't know, this is NOT linux, this is a pure hand built Win32 alternative. Opensource NT clone, at the minute it's tech is based similar to XP with some 7 bits along the way. I think they sit behind to not cause any legal issues. Might be wrong, but really massive well done.
fantastic! I was wondering what I was going to use when windows 7 was no longer available and this seems to be the answer. Thank you for the great videos and the fantastic presentation. Please keep us updated on the progress of ReactOS.. Jake
Just looking at the classic themes brings back great memories
I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for this project!
I always thought it would be fun to create an os that would run windows os programs...
I would call it "ROCKS", so people could throw "Rocks at Windows"...
Ask ReactOS if you can fork their work. Can you make ROCKS a service devoted to exploiting windows vulnerabilities? That way you could throw ROCKS at Windows to break Windows.
@@Muykle I feel your pane. No use glazing it over again.
just stop it, all of you
React is opensource, you can
Would be funny if you had made it make sense
I didn't know about the existence of this Os, great video!
This looks really impressive, all i want is a fast os that can run everything i need without crashing and with minimal resources. I might give this a go when full version is out. Good Job!
I love open source software .. Thank you very much for this great OS
This is great! My daughter will love it. She is very sentimental about Windows XP which she runs on her old "crappy lappy" (as she calls it)!
synchro505 Knowing that there are people in the world who call a laptop a "lappy" makes my right eye twitch... xD I'm just joking of course, but when her "lappy" finally dies, will she switch to a "desky"? :p
synchro505 read reviews about reactOS on distrowatch.com before trying it
Also check reviews on Linux Mint and Ubuntu Mate..these two distros are the ones recommended for people new to Linux
If you like windows xp or 7 research Mint first, particularly UA-cam reviews on Mint Mate LTS
ImpermanentHuman I wonder if anyone still recommends Zorin to newcomers... That seemed to be big for a while and then I suddenly heard nothing about it at all.
ArchGirl As someone new to Linux myself, the problem with Linux gaining a larger user base so far is that there are so many distros it takes quite a lot of research to decide which one to start with, and then I choose a distro which looked great in a UA-cam review but then it’s buggy because the developer/s didn’t have the time or funds to thoroughly test it, or things aren’t working and maybe it’s my hardware since most pc’s hardware is optimized for windows, or maybe I finally figure out that the distro doesn’t automatically download the drivers I need but it never occurred to me because windows does all that updating automatically, and I don’t know anyone who can help me because hardly anyone uses Linux haha etc etc and it all ends up being too much work and puts people off, when in reality the new user needs a good easy first experience and there are only a very few distros that are highly likely going to be a good first experience for most users on windows optimized systems and that seems to be Mint Mate LTS and Ubuntu Mate LTS so I think every Linux video and user should always put a caveat in any other distro review to suggest noobs like me to start with one of those two first, THEN experiment from there, Ubuntu Mate LTS has a welcome center clearly indicating what driver downloads to get and what forums to go to for help etc, and the Mate Tweak option switches between most of the desktop configurations of all the other distros so you can try which layout you like, just awesome 😎
Props for being an arch user btw that’s cool
ImpermanentHuman Hah, thanks, but it's really not as hard as people make it out to be. :p Just follow the Holy Bib- Uh, I mean, the Wiki... And you're pretty much good to go as far as installing goes. After that, maintenance and safe, sensible usage is something you pick up. Little things go wrong? You PROBABLY learned something that will help you fix it just the other day when you broke something else to get something ELSE working right. xD You'd think with all the tedium I'd be sick of it after four years and just about ready to settle down with a nice premade distro, but nope! xD
And yeah, the choice can certainly be overwhelming for a new user. Hell, it's sometimes overwhelming for me and I've found my forever distro! I'm always trying to decide on some fringe distro to boot up in Virtualbox to screw around with. :p
I feel like distrowatch should have a big disclaimer on the homepage. "Never tried Linux EVER!? TRY THIS FIRST! You don't have to, but it's highly recommended." xD
I don't like how is taking forever to complete but I guess replicating everything an OS can do is a very tough thing. So yeah, great job, ReactOS team!!
Truly love your videos. Your professional, and knowledgeable, and sometimes humerous approach is such a joy to watch ...I learn so much ...appreciate you and please keep em coming
Thanks for you kind feedback. Most appreciated.
in you tube we have large number of technical channel but what attracts me about you that you explain everything on simple possible language and your English Voice is also pretty good..
I will try it soon, looks impressive
its just like windows 98 .. and i come to know about react os and now i am going to install it to test windows app .. tnku for ur valuable knowledge
Fantastic project! Love the old windows look. Thanks for the update.
This is so cool! I'm definitely gonna play around with it and keep an eye on its developments!
It's an interesting project to follow indeed.
As a playing person who also needs things such as Visual Studio for work that's not the holy grail that's eventually even superior to Linux, however, they get things better and better everyday.
Plus their improvements go back to the Wine project, which is indeed helpful to many more people.
Even if it were perfectly able to run all Windows apps, it'd still be more flawed than Linux in security and performance. Just compatible with more 3rd party software, the same single advantage Windows has currently.
My fantasy is to have a PC that could run different OSs simultaneously (with a toggle if single-screen)
KOZMOuvBORG You'd love virtualization with gpu pass-through then.
Imagine a VM with direct access to the hardware.
Looks like the very best Windows ever: Windows 2000!
7 professional was the last good version imho. But it still has compatibility issues with older software designed for winxp which drives me up the wall.
0:58 hmm, i had watched this video upto here before, coming back here after seeing it's logo (& ReactOS mentioned in comments) and searching. the results included your video, and i knew this is the reliable source of info for me :)
This took right back to the 90s! Fun to play with "old" stuff.
I've been waiting for this one :)
I have been looking at React OS for something like 20 years, but only every 5 years or so. Development has been snail slow. However it looks like it finally is getting somewhere. Good for them, sticking to it all these years!!
Going to download it and try it now. Glad to see this new OS. Thanks for making this video.
Just saw this video today and, WOW, I'm very impressed. I'm going to install the latest version now and mess about with it!
Great video, and I hope they'll manage to get it to a decent beta version. Don't care if it looks like W95 or WXP, as long as it would run my programs and can deal with TB HD's and USB!
I've been following reactors since... I want to say 2008 or so. Very cool stuff!
Anthony Smith can we install programs from .exe files in reactor OS
Yes, it has some sort of Wine in the background - but sometimes you will have to fix things and most very specific softwares will not work, like HWiNFO32 for hardware monitoring, or any Windows defragmentation software and drivers for special shitWindows hardware.
Same. Shame though the progress seems really slow. It was alpha 10 years ago and still is.
+Bhushan Kuchewar You can't install Microsoft Software and Software made with microsoft programming tools, There are also no printer driver for reactos,
What a fantastic alternative. I love it and thank you for the info and video.
Great review of React.OS and as a supporter of the team it would be nice to see another follow-up with an explanation of hardware used as we approach the year 2020.
Thanks. I am sure that I will review/return to many Windows 7 alternatives across 2019! :)
This indeed is really interesting. I wanna keep my eye on that if I one day can uninstall my win 10 for ReactOS. :)
This is EXTREMELY interesting! I've played around with various Linux distros, but this, THIS is going places that, if successful, could very well be the first Linux OS to be used by the average consumer. I can't wait to see where the development goes with this OS.
Well actually it's not Linux based but written from scratch based on Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000
Great video, very interesting, cool operating system, the interface certainly brought back some memories
5:22 ahhhh, so many windows memories. just yesterday i was thinking about the long tree in window xp start menu. it's soo good to see hope for trying that again easily.
Great Info!! I'm amazed!! God Bless you!! :)
I love it! A windows alternative that's open source and runs windows software (a weakness for Linux) that looks and acts just like the Windows in its heyday.
Also, it's A E S T H E T I C.
Really good video. Thanks for taking the time to put it up for me and everyone else. It's always nice to find videos and information that help us solve problems. I subbed.
Thanks for the sub! :)
I think this is an amazing OS thanks for shearing. Tons of people are waiting to jump ship, me included. W10 will be my last windows. Would love to see this installed in new computers.
I remember when I first heard of ReactOS, I thought the developers time would have been better spent helping out the Wine team. But kudos to them, they've stuck at it! It's a daunting task though, and always playing catch-up, so mostly usable with old software - like Wine really!!!
Seeing you run PS5.5 made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
A .5 version, but such an improvement over 5.0.
building a new system (low end) now and will keep in touch with this OS for a while maybe test the program for them for a while. Liking it so far
I am thankful to you for sharing your valuable knowledge and experience with us. Thank you again. 🙂
The blue-screen crash reminder me: it's really a windows!
I wish them success! Windows 10 and whatever comes after it is not in my future because it works for Microsoft and not for me. I want an operating system that exists to allow me to run software that I want on a computer, not software that mines my information for the benefit of corporate panderers. Sadly, most of the software I want to run, runs on windows Also, sadly, that software is purchase once software which is going the way of the Dodo. Subscription software is the future as far as software vendors are concerned.
I want my freedom of choice back. I want the freedom to not upgrade. The freedom to not be charged over and over again for something I've already paid for. The freedom from having my hardware turned into their hardware used to mine my information and push advertising down my throat.
I couldn't agree more. The couple of Win installations I run are either older & virtualized, or severely "clamped-down" as to information mining - using (only one example) SpyBot Beacon. Google & Amazon appear to be heavily involved in their own spying, with those oh-so-kewl talk-to gizmo boxes that use the 'cloud'. I'd argue THEY are far more intrusive than Windows 10.
Sounds like you need to join us over here on Linux???
Thanks. I'm not an app kind of guy (I guess I'm too old school), I like applications that do the whole job, not apps that do one thing well (-ish) and may or may not work well with other apps. I bought a cheap android tablet to explore other options and did not like having apps that always phone home to spam you with ads or offer paid versions without ads that I wouldn't buy anyway because they don't have the features I want. Printing? Forget it! Unless you want some kind of cloud system that has to route your output through the internet. What do you do when the internet is down? I now have a wireless router that has to be configured through the internet? How is this more secure? I might as well post all my info on a moving billboard in the worst part of town! Nope Nope Nope. Time for me to opt out of the future. I used to laugh at people that couldn't get used to computers, but I guess I've joined the luddites.
I've looked at Linux a few times over the years, but I guess I'm waiting for it to become an OS that you can install and forget. And also one that has the software I want. Windows may suck, but it has all the software I wanted to run (note the past tense).
With Linux I'm concerned that I might have to learn what all the stupidly named software packages actually do. I don't want to tell people I'm using Yakk, or Gimp, or fnord or whatever Linux users think is a clever name for a software package. Less nerdy, more Word-y (how about Spreadsheet 2.0?), Windows isn't immune to stupid names for software but at least they're doing it for the marketing, not the weird factor.
Realistically, Linux is never going to be a like-for-like replacement for any given Windows version. Even other Windows versions cannot achieve that - even though Microsoft has access to all the source code.
I get that there are killer apps (including for me Excel and PowerPoint) only available on Windows and Linux, but when I don't need to use those I'm more than happy to default to Linux.
When I found this video and watched it today I got excited. I am writing this on a Win 7 system and I have an elderly XP system running in the back bedroom. I went to the wikipedia article on ReactOS and found that a run in with MS happened in 2006! Someone made the mistake of disassembling the Windows executable for syscall.S. Apparently that was somehow resolved. Next I will try the most stable ReactOS release on the Win XP system, since I am using that only as a console for an AIX system.
Wow I didn't know it was like this, I am a Windows 7 user, and I dred that 2020 deadline, but thank you for this!
I'm looking forward to see a full version of this. Thinking it could hopefully be a good way to run older software and games on it, originally suited for XP or older Windows versions. Also a good lightweight alternative OS for older/slower computers. Though it may ofcourse not necessarily stop one from using ReactOS on fast modern computers as well! :-)
I just took a look at a video of Haiku OS right now. Yeah, that's also interesting I must say! And Windows programs if preferred could be run through Wine perhaps.
Hi, Thank`s for sharing this O.S. (JR/SP/BRAZIL)
Impressive! Thank you for making us aware of this technology.
Looks great, will definitely keep an eye on.
Nice explanation..thanks
I used ReactOS back in highschool, I can't believe it's 20 years old
Nocturnal Nights just like me i know those os but never intended to use that. cause of error
Wow, you have a really fast computer. Great video, Thanks
Wow..this is great! Now we can have a free Windows alternatives. Impressive!
That's pretty awesome stuff... alternative for those who don't care about Microsoft's telemetry stance. Thanks for sharing Chris!
Very interesting topic!
I want this! I could bring back all the software I loved for years and used without problems. Awesome! I have a machine it could go on ready. I shall now keep it until it's ready.
Hmm, great video, never heard of this OS before, but I am downloading it to try it out on an older machine. Thank you for the heads up about this OS. Looks exactly like a Windows 7 desktop for sure.
Well done going bacK to the basics! I plan to try this later .... Idea once you get this going good do major updates and make a imporved version of windows 7 somewhat. And keep it windows with improved interface but nothing Windows 10! All an idea have fun
I hope they make themes like Aero and Luna. Then I'm completely sold
This is huge! I will pay for the refined version as long as it's fast, unbloated and resource friendly.
keep up the good work, love your video's!!!
Nice video. I think you should have tried installing Chrome just to see how it fared in it's latest version. But great info. Thanks! Gotta love VM's. I have been running a Linux web server off a tablet in a VM for years now.
I wish they could get it to Beta... it's been in Alpha or pre-alpha for how long? A decade maybe? I do understand that recreating Windows from scratch is a huge undertaking and I don't believe the team is very large.
Windows won't be Windows by the time ReactOS is complete. ReactOS will likely find a niche running legacy software.
No, that's not true. They have one target Windows 2003 server, that hasn't changed since 2003. They will persist and target 2003 and when it is done, look at later functionality. That said, they can implement things that MS deliberately did not implement, eg. they can give it NT6 shims to allow NT6 apps to run.
With Microsoft moving Windows away from legacy support, ReactOS may find itself in a good niche for those still needing to run Win32 software.
yes they still target windows server 2003, but it will have a "forward compatibility mode" which means it can pretend to be a newer system. some applications dont require newer functionality, they only think they do. remember the dx10 hack for windows xp where you just played being a windows vista.
I've seen some old printer in a copy shop connected to good old Win7 --- if Win10 screws it up, maybe there will be running ReactOS in the near future --- sadly, not all viruses and trojan horses can run under ReactOS :-(
I wonder if it will be able to run 16 bit programs from the mid 90s.
Really nice video, thank you so much. I'm going to try ReactOS and Photoshop CS3.
Great video on ReactOS, very informative.
Last time I played with ReactOS about 5 years ago USB was not even working maybe in another 30 years we will get a fully 64bit Windows 7 comparable OS LOL! Edit: seriously though I hope they get it working sooner than later, but with the team being so very small I can understand why it's taken them this long. They should just shoot for a Windows XP/98SE era level of OS at this point so people could use it to build retro gaming PC systems without a lot of hassle.
They ought to shoot for a currently supported version of Windows and once complete and fully functional shelve it and as soon as that version becomes unsupported they can release it and be wanted by the public and have plenty of time to work on it. Like how long before win10 becomes unsupported? I guess a version without all the spying and calling home or cloning your hard drive and going through it at Microsoft would be highly appreciated.
@@dooleyjlt5503 which is why there should be now be AT LEAST an XP level system after all these years of "development". People still want and use XP. Even years after 4 more versions of Windows came out.
What a great idea for using some older hardware to run windows software specifically control software for things like audio equipment or lighting that dont have linux applications and wont ever. Sadly the download links aren't working at the moment.
patthesoundguy I've just downloaded ReactOS from the website with no problem, will try it out later today.
Im very excited to try it out. Im going to try downloading again later.
I got it to download! making a usb stick with it now.
Yeah right after I posted about making a usb stick I read that it won't install from USB. Im still excited about it though.
You can't use RUFUS or another LiveUSB creator?
Very impressive. Congrats to ReactOS. Hope there will be a followup vid, since the vid is over 1 year old.
Tanks, it was very intresting alternatives for Windows
is it in alpha since 1995?
It is!
@@ExplainingComputers might be one of those things that takes just long enough that you keep adding or updating to be compatible to the newer version or non-supported software. I know when I wrote myself a little media player in VB6 using the MP library I continually added and changed it to the point that the original looked nothing like the finished product and only got to a finished product because of time.
not is not, the team just focus on the code first, looks comes after
So if it's been in alpha stage for 24 years already, I can't see any chance of it becoming a daily driver any time ever.
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.2 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Image Ready all work on ReactOS. So Does Winamp, DirectX 9.0c, AutoTech 3.0, Steam (games untested), Ubisoft Launcher (games untested), Brave Browser, Microsoft Comic Chat, Audacity, Blender, Discord (had microphone/line in input issues), Handbreak, Libre Office, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, SimCity 2000, Minecraft (Java), OBS (classic, but doesn't capture screen), VLC, Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory and a few various other small apps. Still testing others.
Can I burn this on cd and use as a real os on my laptop and not just virtua box?
I like that windows 7 look. Excellent video
What a superb operating system! THANKS