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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 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$.*
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!
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 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!
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.
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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.
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!
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.
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 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.
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 :-(
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.
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 :)
Something like this is desperately needed. Not just because Windows 10 sucks, but because MS appears to be going in the direction where users will be forced to "rent" the operating system in perpetuity, not just a one time license. For me it's stick with windows 7 or Linux. Or both.
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.
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.
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..
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!!
@LiEnby hey you replied to my 5-year old comment!! 😆 I wonder if ReactOS is finally usable. Crazy how it's supposed to be a replacement for an OS that's ¼ a century old!!
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 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.
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.
As a CISSP and CEH I have to say that the "Windows 7 will still work after 2020, but not safely online" is a very much debatable statement. I have seen Win XP machines that are still safely online, as long as they have the proper firewalling fronting them online, and they're not using defaults for everything, like Internet Explorer. You can safely run Windows 7 online for ages to come, just know what you're doing, and avoid default OS software, like IE or terminal/remote segments of it. Become informed about it, that's all you need to do.
Well, maybe. I take your point. But to run an OS that is not manufacturer patched -- and which they hence consider and advertise to be unsafe -- is very risky. For personal use, maybe, at your own risk. But if you ended up in a court case relating to data breach, loss or misuse you would not stand a chance. I know of many companies where the act of connecting a Windows XP computer to the network is a disciplinary offence.
Up to 2013 I was still tinkering, keeping 2000Pro alive with help from users on the MSFN board and RyanVM board, it can be done. One member had an 8 core AMD with 8 GB of RAM [PAE mode] and showed a screen shot, but then I got tired and simply adopted W7.
You may have heard about how Microsoft extended the "supported" period of Windows XP past the point where Vista was supported. To a company even if there was no difference between Windows XP and 7, if XP is no longer supported it's the "reason" something happened. We live in a world where "blame" is always part of the equation. People _have_ to blame something, something specific happened and who ever was in charge of what happened is responsible for the problem. If there's a Data breach, even if it wasn't the fact that you were running XP, if they find out you were using an outmoded OS they'd blame it on that, blame whoever green lit the use of XP, shoulder them with the concequences and everybody will move on. It's called covering your ass, it doesn't matter if security wise using 7 over 10 is equal. If a bank decides to use 7 after it's no longer supported by Microsoft, they can easily be sued for still using it if you have an account with them.
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!
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.
Windows 10 is terrible. I'm on it right now. It's bloat is frustrating and all the data it collects is creepy. It's also a mess with settings all over the place. I am truly thinking of switching to MintOS but I don't want to give up my games. I would switch to ReactOS when it gets stable and make sure it can play all latest steam games with full HW support and good frame rate. That is a hard feat I know.
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!
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.
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.
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!
Use VirtualBox. I show how to use it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/jyi-NuqiLr0/v-deo.html Note my comment in the video description of that video on how to install "Guest Additions" to get tehe most out of it.
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
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!!!
Hello once again! Just FYI ReactOS 0.4.13 will be released in few days. It will feature a LOT of regression fixes as well as a completely new USB-stack! And USB boot and installation will be possible with some little tricks...
Main drawback to this OS, even if its gets bugs corrected, is driver support. If you have no drivers for your hardware it's pointless to install it natively on your machine, making it only good to play around with it in a virtual machine, but little more.
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
@@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.
I wouldn't call it an alternative for Windows 7 as development is progressing extremely slowly, plus as the watermark on the bottom right corner says: It's reporting Windows NT 5.2 to applications, aka Windows XP. More and more applications are dropping support for Windows XP and so consequently ReactOS as well. Even newer Firefox versions won't support it. So unless they will move on to emulating/reporting newer Windows versions, this would merely be an alternative to XP. Plus there's other issues like driver incompatibility and whole subsystems still waiting to be fixed or reverse-engineered and a few more. As it stands right now it's a neat peculiarity, but I wouldn't say it will rise up to threaten the popularity of legacy Windows versions anytime soon. Unless the development team manages to gain some traction, that is.
..."If the development team gains some traction"....which I predict will happen right after Vladimir Putin and Theresa May elope together, are married by a pagan priestess, and run nude together down the Avenue Des Champs-Élysées...
Fraizeraust Frankensteining an already reverse-engineered kernel by adding APIs instead of moving up the Windows version... I don't think that would go very well for stability.
guyonearth I didn't say it will happen anytime soon. Plus the question is how Microsoft would react to a viable ReactOS... Afaik they really do reverse-engineer quite a few bits and most commercial software licenses go against that, so there's that.
+AwesomeSource Films If the project has source code that can be audited, and it can be sown that the project contains no source code from Microsoft, which I think has already been shown, then if they produced a working operating system, Microsoft could do nothing about it. The question would be if they can in fact produce a working, binary-compatible modern operating system that offers essentially the same functionality as an earlier version of Windows without violating any Microsoft patents. I myself do not think that is likely, given the current nature of this project. It would have to re-implement thousands of software functions from scratch, many of which are not fully documented publicly. I do not believe the ReactOS project has that kind of talent available. And then of course, one would have to ask whether a "working" re-implementation of Windows 2000, for example, would actually bother Microsoft that much or not. I don't think it would. Boxed operating systems are not a large part of Microsoft revenue these days, and something that old would not siphon off business. Besides, I have seen no evidence that ReactOS is intended to be something that would be sold for money. If it's free, why would they care? They gave away Windows 10 for free themselves. It still is free, if you have a valid serial from 7 or 8, as a matter of fact I just did an install a few days ago, didn't cost me anything. I think the reality is that at present this project is so rudimentary and so far behind the capabilities of the actual product, they see no threat whatsoever. Anybody could buy an old copy of Windows 2000 off eBay and have something much more useful than this OS is, and far more compatible.
They can put anything they want in the wording in a license but the law trumps anything in a EULA and the law allows reverse engineering for interoperability.
You can change the screen size from within the virtual OS, just change the screen setting as you would in windows. RightClick >> Properties >> Settings - 1600 x 1200 looks a little more pleasing than 800 x 600 ;)
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.
me to i loke windos 98 too had lots of fun with it great for playing dos games and internet tgames to hated to lose it my freind talked me in to going to xp
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.
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.
BieHDC that's true. Backstory: I've been running earlier alpha releases in VirtualBox for a few years & waiting for a beta for about a decade. So when I woke & saw Chris had uploaded a ReactOS video, just got a little ahead of myself and mistakenly assumed a beta was ready. :D
Hopefully tons of other people who are interested in it will start forking it and making their own more completed distros before that happens XD. Maybe it can mature faster with more developers and more eyes on the code.
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.
Should suggest this OS to HuaWei since they have been banned from MS... win win
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I'd consider it an honor if MS banned me. Windows is the biggest trash ever conceived. It's not even anything original from MS as nothing ever was nor shall be.
Just as an FYI, ReactOS does have internet explorer, the same version that is in wine, as it is necessary to have internet explorer for many programs, even under Wine.
Without such video, I would have to do it for myself ... often impractical (and bugger off the thumb-downers). I have had enough of Windows and Linux is a bit too geeky for me. Thank you for making the effort to create this fantastic video - wow!
If you think Linux is too geeky you clearly havent tried it for some time or are running off perceptions. As an example. Linux Mint is very Windows in its look and feel, easier to install, and you have control of what happens with updates. My non tech wife uses it happily on a travel laptop and really only noticed that the home screen was a different colour. She thought it was just a theme. I put a copy of Vector Linux (a light weight Linux) on a tiny Acer notebook the other day. Took about 20 minutes, simple to use and once again any consumer Windows user could happily us it to get to their browser. Personally I think the 80/20 probably applies. Most people could actually do their real work activities on Linux and its apps with a tiny bit of effort. They other 20%ish have real compatability issues that mean they are effectively tied to Windows. Many people dont want to learn another thing. Either they dont have the time, are lazy or just have computer fatigue (usually after what Windows has been dragging them through)
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.
+Bhushan Kuchewar You can't install Microsoft Software and Software made with microsoft programming tools, There are also no printer driver for reactos,
Windows 7 will still be safe to use online after 2020 if you have Avast or other antivirus software installed. My system is dual-boot with Windows XP and Windows 7, both have Avast installed. I have no safety issues or concerns using XP online. The same will be true of 7.
why do you keep XP? Genuine question, I put XP on an old low-end PC I had and nothing worked on it so after trying a few alternatives, I eventually put Win 10 on it instead, it runs slowly but it runs and stuff generally works.
@@Smartzenegger hahaha I've seen that vid. Yeah man I've been using Linux for the past 7 years or so, yet during that entire time my main daily driver has been windows. I only use Linux on laptops and in virtual machines, but my desktop is windows 10. Would love to see react get similar love as Linux has gotten. Lots of forks and custom distros with plenty of devs would be good for this project.
@@Smartzenegger Yes, exactly, most parts of the project are GNU GPL license (exactly like Linux) while some parts are under a BSD/MIT style of license. In both cases anyone is free to use the code to their liking. Commercial or non commercial. Just any code that is GPL cannot be re licensed, but anything under the BSD/MIT style can be re licensed, and even made proprietary code.
Great video - thanks! I'm hating win 10, love my xp and win 7. Reactos looks like the way to go. Windows isgetting packed with stuff I dont need - or want and, it always insists on 'forcing' me to do things its way. Give me back my pc! Thanks EC and Reactos!
I have been thinking about which OS I would go to next when that time comes that Windows 7 coughs up its last breath. I mean, I hate Windows 10! Now with ReactOS, my hopes are up. Thanks for the video. Nicely done.
They are on 0.4.12 now ... ReactOS Overview An operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).
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
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.
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.
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!
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
@@crankfiend
"common sense is the best anti-virus"
Nobody with common sense says this.
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
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.
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!
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.
They did a really good job giving it "The Look And Feel". This should be very attractive to people wanting a traditional desktop experience.
Keep the old version of Paint and they will win the market!
Ahh miss that thing
This is definitely on my list of "things I physically can't wait to be finished"
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!
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
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 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
Photoshop demo is pretty amazing. This encourages me to attempt to install Logic Audio 5.5 in ReactOS, wish me luck!
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Something like this is desperately needed. Not just because Windows 10 sucks, but because MS appears to be going in the direction where users will be forced to "rent" the operating system in perpetuity, not just a one time license. For me it's stick with windows 7 or Linux. Or both.
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.
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..
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!!
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!!
I feel it’s more of a “windows is extremely large code base” problem than a “it takes ages to complete”
@LiEnby hey you replied to my 5-year old comment!! 😆
I wonder if ReactOS is finally usable. Crazy how it's supposed to be a replacement for an OS that's ¼ a century old!!
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?
NICE to see this OS project up and running again!
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.
ReactOS in year 3000: Yes, we are finaly out of beta!
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.
As a CISSP and CEH I have to say that the "Windows 7 will still work after 2020, but not safely online" is a very much debatable statement. I have seen Win XP machines that are still safely online, as long as they have the proper firewalling fronting them online, and they're not using defaults for everything, like Internet Explorer. You can safely run Windows 7 online for ages to come, just know what you're doing, and avoid default OS software, like IE or terminal/remote segments of it. Become informed about it, that's all you need to do.
Well, maybe. I take your point. But to run an OS that is not manufacturer patched -- and which they hence consider and advertise to be unsafe -- is very risky. For personal use, maybe, at your own risk. But if you ended up in a court case relating to data breach, loss or misuse you would not stand a chance. I know of many companies where the act of connecting a Windows XP computer to the network is a disciplinary offence.
Mine got a crypto virus...so they aren't that safe.
Up to 2013 I was still tinkering, keeping 2000Pro alive with help from users on the MSFN board and RyanVM board, it can be done. One member had an 8 core AMD with 8 GB of RAM [PAE mode] and showed a screen shot, but then I got tired and simply adopted W7.
You may have heard about how Microsoft extended the "supported" period of Windows XP past the point where Vista was supported. To a company even if there was no difference between Windows XP and 7, if XP is no longer supported it's the "reason" something happened.
We live in a world where "blame" is always part of the equation. People _have_ to blame something, something specific happened and who ever was in charge of what happened is responsible for the problem.
If there's a Data breach, even if it wasn't the fact that you were running XP, if they find out you were using an outmoded OS they'd blame it on that, blame whoever green lit the use of XP, shoulder them with the concequences and everybody will move on. It's called covering your ass, it doesn't matter if security wise using 7 over 10 is equal. If a bank decides to use 7 after it's no longer supported by Microsoft, they can easily be sued for still using it if you have an account with them.
A lot of ATM machines are still running windows xp most people don't know that but they are think about that the next time that you insert your card.
>We are now running photoshop natively in a non-Windows operating system
macOS: Am I a joke to you?
:)
Linux: _laughs (and cries) in Wine_
The blue-screen crash reminder me: it's really a windows!
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!
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.
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.
Windows 10 is terrible. I'm on it right now. It's bloat is frustrating and all the data it collects is creepy. It's also a mess with settings all over the place. I am truly thinking of switching to MintOS but I don't want to give up my games. I would switch to ReactOS when it gets stable and make sure it can play all latest steam games with full HW support and good frame rate. That is a hard feat I know.
What a fantastic alternative. I love it and thank you for the info and video.
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
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!
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! :)
Just looking at the classic themes brings back great memories
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
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!
I want to use windows XP on a virtual machine. I have xp disc. Want to play games. Can you advise what VM to get please. One thats for dummies too,
Use VirtualBox. I show how to use it in this video: ua-cam.com/video/jyi-NuqiLr0/v-deo.html Note my comment in the video description of that video on how to install "Guest Additions" to get tehe most out of it.
I'll send that recommendation. VirtualBox is easy to set up and works well with XP.
However, please note that playing 3D video games may not work.
This is so awesome. That Photoshop version was my favorite. Thank you for this review. You made quite an awesome channel I enjoy watching regularly.
Use Oracle virtual box
For 3d games, you might want to use VMWare Workstation Player instead. It can play less demanding games.
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
Great video, very interesting, cool operating system, the interface certainly brought back some memories
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!!!
This has been in Alpha since early 2000's and at this point I've lost all hope of ever seeing this progressing anywhere
been watching this OS team for years,.. thank you for highlighting it. awesome channel.
I didn't know about the existence of this Os, great video!
I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for this project!
Hello once again!
Just FYI ReactOS 0.4.13 will be released in few days. It will feature a LOT of regression fixes as well as a completely new USB-stack! And USB boot and installation will be possible with some little tricks...
Thanks for this -- I will take a look! :) Maybe time for another video.
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
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.
This thing has been alpha for years and years. I hope they manage to make it useful within my lifetime :^/
This indeed is really interesting. I wanna keep my eye on that if I one day can uninstall my win 10 for ReactOS. :)
Main drawback to this OS, even if its gets bugs corrected, is driver support. If you have no drivers for your hardware it's pointless to install it natively on your machine, making it only good to play around with it in a virtual machine, but little more.
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.
I've been waiting for this one :)
Now we need you guys to do Windows 7 next. 😂
If some organization were to rise up to provide commercial support for reactos, it could definitely fill a lot of niches.
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.
I wouldn't call it an alternative for Windows 7 as development is progressing extremely slowly, plus as the watermark on the bottom right corner says: It's reporting Windows NT 5.2 to applications, aka Windows XP. More and more applications are dropping support for Windows XP and so consequently ReactOS as well. Even newer Firefox versions won't support it. So unless they will move on to emulating/reporting newer Windows versions, this would merely be an alternative to XP. Plus there's other issues like driver incompatibility and whole subsystems still waiting to be fixed or reverse-engineered and a few more. As it stands right now it's a neat peculiarity, but I wouldn't say it will rise up to threaten the popularity of legacy Windows versions anytime soon. Unless the development team manages to gain some traction, that is.
..."If the development team gains some traction"....which I predict will happen right after Vladimir Putin and Theresa May elope together, are married by a pagan priestess, and run nude together down the Avenue Des Champs-Élysées...
Fraizeraust Frankensteining an already reverse-engineered kernel by adding APIs instead of moving up the Windows version... I don't think that would go very well for stability.
guyonearth I didn't say it will happen anytime soon. Plus the question is how Microsoft would react to a viable ReactOS... Afaik they really do reverse-engineer quite a few bits and most commercial software licenses go against that, so there's that.
+AwesomeSource Films If the project has source code that can be audited, and it can be sown that the project contains no source code from Microsoft, which I think has already been shown, then if they produced a working operating system, Microsoft could do nothing about it. The question would be if they can in fact produce a working, binary-compatible modern operating system that offers essentially the same functionality as an earlier version of Windows without violating any Microsoft patents. I myself do not think that is likely, given the current nature of this project. It would have to re-implement thousands of software functions from scratch, many of which are not fully documented publicly. I do not believe the ReactOS project has that kind of talent available. And then of course, one would have to ask whether a "working" re-implementation of Windows 2000, for example, would actually bother Microsoft that much or not. I don't think it would. Boxed operating systems are not a large part of Microsoft revenue these days, and something that old would not siphon off business. Besides, I have seen no evidence that ReactOS is intended to be something that would be sold for money. If it's free, why would they care? They gave away Windows 10 for free themselves. It still is free, if you have a valid serial from 7 or 8, as a matter of fact I just did an install a few days ago, didn't cost me anything. I think the reality is that at present this project is so rudimentary and so far behind the capabilities of the actual product, they see no threat whatsoever. Anybody could buy an old copy of Windows 2000 off eBay and have something much more useful than this OS is, and far more compatible.
They can put anything they want in the wording in a license but the law trumps anything in a EULA and the law allows reverse engineering for interoperability.
You can change the screen size from within the virtual OS, just change the screen setting as you would in windows. RightClick >> Properties >> Settings - 1600 x 1200 looks a little more pleasing than 800 x 600 ;)
I love open source software .. Thank you very much for this great OS
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?
Great video on ReactOS, very informative.
It's like revisiting windows 98 :)
wp307d thanks for info. :)
Actually, it is much closer in terms of looks to Windows 2000.
the "old" style is much better anyway. i also had windows 7 always on the classic theme, because it was so much nicer to use.
I always used the classic theme in XP, but I love the way 7 looks with some nice, dark settings.
me to i loke windos 98 too had lots of fun with it great for playing dos games and internet tgames to hated to lose it my freind talked me in to going to xp
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.
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.
ReactOS is finally ready??!?!?!??
edit* 'Still in Alpha' ...Sorry, got a little too excited and commented before the video really started.
Ready, no. Interesting to experiment with? Yes! :)
you cant easily replicate an operating system build by a multi million dollar company by mostly free contributors who work on it in their free time ;)
BieHDC that's true. Backstory: I've been running earlier alpha releases in VirtualBox for a few years & waiting for a beta for about a decade. So when I woke & saw Chris had uploaded a ReactOS video, just got a little ahead of myself and mistakenly assumed a beta was ready. :D
It'll probably be in alpha indefinitely, considering it's been in development for over 20 years...
We have located Bill Gate's British doppelganger.
Billy G's doppleganger
Let's call him Bill Port now, shall we chap?
This took right back to the 90s! Fun to play with "old" stuff.
It started in 1996...I guess the developers will die out by the time they reach 1.0...may be generations will work on it ..who knows.
Hopefully tons of other people who are interested in it will start forking it and making their own more completed distros before that happens XD. Maybe it can mature faster with more developers and more eyes on the code.
I hope they make themes like Aero and Luna. Then I'm completely sold
Very impressive. Congrats to ReactOS. Hope there will be a followup vid, since the vid is over 1 year old.
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?
Should suggest this OS to HuaWei since they have been banned from MS... win win
I'd consider it an honor if MS banned me. Windows is the biggest trash ever conceived. It's not even anything original from MS as nothing ever was nor shall be.
Fahmi FFSHX
Nope, their ban has only been delayed.
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!
Just as an FYI, ReactOS does have internet explorer, the same version that is in wine, as it is necessary to have internet explorer for many programs, even under Wine.
Without such video, I would have to do it for myself ... often impractical (and bugger off the thumb-downers). I have had enough of Windows and Linux is a bit too geeky for me. Thank you for making the effort to create this fantastic video - wow!
If you think Linux is too geeky you clearly havent tried it for some time or are running off perceptions.
As an example. Linux Mint is very Windows in its look and feel, easier to install, and you have control of what happens with updates. My non tech wife uses it happily on a travel laptop and really only noticed that the home screen was a different colour. She thought it was just a theme.
I put a copy of Vector Linux (a light weight Linux) on a tiny Acer notebook the other day. Took about 20 minutes, simple to use and once again any consumer Windows user could happily us it to get to their browser.
Personally I think the 80/20 probably applies. Most people could actually do their real work activities on Linux and its apps with a tiny bit of effort. They other 20%ish have real compatability issues that mean they are effectively tied to Windows.
Many people dont want to learn another thing. Either they dont have the time, are lazy or just have computer fatigue (usually after what Windows has been dragging them through)
This is huge! I will pay for the refined version as long as it's fast, unbloated and resource friendly.
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,
ReactOS works fine on Virtual Box if you select the VM as a Windows NT 4.0 VM
Windows 2003*
Interesting to know that it also works on a VM set for Windows Server 2003 !
If they give it a windows 7 theme with aero glass i'm sold on it.
Windows 7 will still be safe to use online after 2020 if you have Avast or other antivirus software installed. My system is dual-boot with Windows XP and Windows 7, both have Avast installed. I have no safety issues or concerns using XP online. The same will be true of 7.
why do you keep XP? Genuine question, I put XP on an old low-end PC I had and nothing worked on it so after trying a few alternatives, I eventually put Win 10 on it instead, it runs slowly but it runs and stuff generally works.
Oh thank god, no Windows 10 for me ever! :)
did you ever end up making the switch? i assume you were rocking windows 7, but what about now that it's no longer getting security patches?
@@elijahhmarshall Nope, I fell victim to WindOS 10, like the most of us. ReactOS should be called "RejectOS". ua-cam.com/video/U6d7E1uKSmg/v-deo.html
@@Smartzenegger hahaha I've seen that vid. Yeah man I've been using Linux for the past 7 years or so, yet during that entire time my main daily driver has been windows. I only use Linux on laptops and in virtual machines, but my desktop is windows 10. Would love to see react get similar love as Linux has gotten. Lots of forks and custom distros with plenty of devs would be good for this project.
@@elijahhmarshall Is ReactOS opensource like Linux?
@@Smartzenegger Yes, exactly, most parts of the project are GNU GPL license (exactly like Linux) while some parts are under a BSD/MIT style of license. In both cases anyone is free to use the code to their liking. Commercial or non commercial. Just any code that is GPL cannot be re licensed, but anything under the BSD/MIT style can be re licensed, and even made proprietary code.
Great video - thanks! I'm hating win 10, love my xp and win 7. Reactos looks like the way to go. Windows isgetting packed with stuff I dont need - or want and, it always insists on 'forcing' me to do things its way. Give me back my pc! Thanks EC and Reactos!
8:00 well it wouldn't be a nice windows experience with everything working perfectly would it ;)
I have been thinking about which OS I would go to next when that time comes that Windows 7 coughs up its last breath. I mean, I hate Windows 10! Now with ReactOS, my hopes are up. Thanks for the video. Nicely done.
They are on 0.4.12 now ...
ReactOS Overview
An operating system based on the best Windows NT design principles
ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).
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