If you want some help for another reactos run, feel free to drop by in mattermost or our unofficial discord server, we can give you a hand in working around certain quirks. Also, if you look out for another machine, its useful if it has a serial port, so we can do some debugging on what exactly causes the issues, making it easier to fix them. And you mentioned btrfs, just for correction, it is not a ntfs replacement, it is a different filesystem coming from the linux world and the reasons it was added was because the snapshop feature will make it easier to restore a broken install on hardware in the future and also helps the driver porter analysing issues. reactos has ntfs support, but not for setup and by default only read-only, but experimental write support can be enabled. Great and Fair video btw :)
Would that be the 'ReactOS Community' server? I joined there, as I'm the lead dev on an old gaming suite that uses DX8 and I am curious to discover if our software runs, and if it can be made to run, now. We tried a while back, with no luck.
If I remember correctly ReactOS worked pretty good on my old Optiplex 755 a few years back. And that system has a Radeon HD 4000 series card I believe (forgot which exact model tho). I don't remember trying any games on the system. But thought I should mention it anyway. I do not remember having any install issues, it just installed and ran as far as I remember. Sorry I could not give any more information. I think I didn't stick with it because it failed to run something, and I can not remember what that was. Sorry.
Btrfs is not ReactOS equivalent to NTFS. Btrfs comes from the Linux realm (although not often used) and is a different file system than the more traditional ones (FAT, NTFS, Ext4, XFS etc.), more suited to servers or other data-critical applications and a sort of more open implementation of ZFS (another file system usually used in BSD, available in Linux, but restricted due to licensing). It seems weird that ReactOS is trying to implement it. I've heard that ReactOS works with the WINE project (at least on some basic level, using its libraries), so if you feel adventurous you might as well test retro gaming on Linux using WINE on a perhaps newer machine. Just in that case don't forget to run WINE in 32-bit mode using an environment variable (there is a FAQ on winehq.org) for higher success rates (and/or try PlayOnLinux, winetricks, Lutris, CrossOver etc). But I'm sure it isn't better than using dedicated hardware from appropriate era with the OS games were designed to run on.
Most of ReactOS' userland is from WINE. Without WINE they wouldn't have gotten anywhere, I believe. As a rule of thumb, what doesn't run in WINE, doesn't run in ReactOS - which kind of defeats its purpose. As for BTRFS, yes it is a Linux file system, but thanks to winbtrfs, there is decent support for it in the Windows world, so this may be a good choice, if they just can't figure how to make NTFS work.
Did you upload this video just for me? I installed XP on an old PC for games, ReactOS popped into my mind, and then I searched and you had uploaded this perfect little video merely hours before. cool channel btw
Thanks for going through this ordeal! For some reason, both the developers and almost everyone making videos on it tests them only in VirtualBox, which gives the false impression that it is somewhat usable, at least for some ten minutes. I have been following the development of ReactOS since around 2003, and I feel that with the popularity of virtualisation, its hardware support has even gotten worse. I think, very little development effort goes into making it work with real hardware, because Virtualbox can always give you the convenient illusion that it is somewhat usable. And yet, whether or not it runs on real hardware is what matters in the end. If you think about it: Development has started around 1996 (by the name of FreeWin95), so it is 24 years now that they are working on it. Compare its state to what Linux had achieved after 24 years of development to put things into perspective. I think it is a lost cause.
the difference between then and now is the lack of manpower and the incident of the leaked source code which delayed the development. Nowadays, there are actually people working on this. Looking at the change logs, blog posts and contributors, you can see that most of the action just started in 2017.
Hey man good stuff u got there hoping channel rises soon btw if u wanna get into algorithm better use sum tags u got a lot of good content but there is no views
Thanks, but I'm not sure what you mean by the tag thing. Every video of mine has at least half a dozen tags, and they do seem to be getting recommended more and more lately.
wonderful review.. I can relate to all your troubleshooting techniques in an attempt to load an alternative OS, mine being OI, OpenIndiana the Open Solaris fork..
Thanks, you just saved me from some unnecessary heartache and pain. Cause I thought I was going to run a Ryzen B450 build with ReactOS. I doubt I would have a motherboard after that.
Sounds like the installation process is a nightmare. I'd probably give up far before you did to get this thing to work. Not to say there isn't potential given enough elbow grease, but they have a long way to go before one can even begin to entertain having this as something to use playing games.
What is most frustrating isn't that things don't work, but is the fact that you first have to try and lookup things for hours on hours on hours. Things like the mouse issue as well as the SATA/IDE incompatibilities is something they could easily implement in the install procedure as some sort of help text before installing.
I suspect the SATA DVD drive worked because it was used to boot and the BIOS would have loaded the OS from the disc independently from the bad implementation of SATA control on said disc.
5:11 What the hell, it has dvorak as the default keyboard layout? It's amazing that they are trying to implement btrfs though. I thought maybe they just call their ntfs btrfs like you said in the video, but it seems to be actual btrfs as we know it from Linux. Now btrfs is pretty buggy itself, at least when it comes to RAID setups, but if you're working with only one drive it's a great fs.
Honestly, that Skyrim clip kind of our it all in perspectives where it's at. I actually am really impressed with the project and how it's progressed since I first became aware of it.
I don't have an Inspiron 9400. That case was used for a bunch of different machines with wildly varying hardware configurations. ReactOS might work well on some, but not others. Those images were meant as general illustrations of Intel machines I have that it MIGHT work better on, but haven't tried.
I have an AMD-based Toshiba Satellite C70D-B from 2015. It's dirty, the keycap for F1 is missing and the left mouse button is broken. I only use it when I have to work with optical media because my main laptop doesn't have an optical drive. ReactOS (Live CD) works on it flawlessly. The trackpad and the keyboard worked first try.
hi ReactOS predecessor was FreeWin95 BUT "FreeWin95 was the predecessor to ReactOS which was focused on making an open source clone of Windows 95. It never amounted to anything other than being the eventual genesis of ReactOS. The founder and coordinator of FreeWin95 project was Yannick Majoros." reactos.org/wiki/FreeWin95 "In February 1998, ReactOS began" reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History
Considering the low amount of money and people helping this is the result. Only the wine project and other few help. It is like a black sheep for Linux.
I think this is also a result of wrong choices made. Back when Linus Thorvalds started coding Linux, there were no virtual machines, so from the get go he had to make sure that his kernel worked on real hardware. The result was something absolutely rock-solid. Back when I first tested reactos 0.1 in 2003, it was a pure command line OS, but it actually ran on my PC. Now, the devs don't even seem to bother anymore about real hardware, because everyone is using VirtualBox anyway. Instead they focus on polishing the UI and adding features in order to have something to present. I have the impression that they go for the low-hanging fruit instead of taking on the more difficult and dauting task of improving basic stability and hardware compatibility.
@@jochannan7379 I always thought that the project should allow you to get device drivers target for windows instead of making from scratch and then improve over there. It is a complicated mess more by legal issues like with bsd.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Sure, that's the theory, but in practice, drivers very often don't install. With my Thinkpad T420, a device you would expect to be relatively well supported because it is fairly old and widespread, I have tried the snappy driver installer which is recommended by the ReactOS wiki reactos.org/wiki/Install_a_driver#3rd-party_Driver_Packs and the success was very mixed. One essential would have been e.g. to get Wifi working. Wasn't possible. I also tried on some other legacy machines, including a Dell Latitude E6420 and a Fujitsu Esprimo desktop, all dated standard hardware. I don't know how much work is involved in making sure that 3rd party drivers can install, but clearly that work hasn't been completed, and there seems to be limited attention to this task.
It looks flawless on the CRT monitor I actually use. The signal you're seeing has been through a KVM, and a VGA splitter, then it's sent 10 feet across the room to a VGA to HDMI adapter, and is then fed into an upscaler that converts it to 1080p, and finally it gets sent to my portable capture card where it's recorded. Then in post, I squish the footage back to a 4:3 aspect ratio, and do color correction to compensate for the upscaler, which like to screw with the brightness and color balance.
well, looks like remaking ms window with just a few people is going to take forever... I have no idea that this project has go on for 10 years and it's still in alpha...
@@manhvu4988 Look at how tiny the developer group is github.com/orgs/reactos/people and then count how many of them have actually contributed to the project during the last year. To me it looks exceedingly unlikely that they might ever get out of alpha
Attendant: "Hello Sir, these are our new cryosleep chambers. they provide everything your body needs in your 300 year sleep. Go ahead and lie down, the process will begin shortly after the lid is closed" Customer: "Thank you." SYSTEM: "Cryo process has been started" Customer: "Ok, this is cool. Say, what OS does this run on?" Attendand: "Oh, sir, I don't know much about the internal system, but I can assure we use the latest version of ReactOS." Customer: "Did you just say ReactOS? GET ME OUT OF H-" SYSTEM: "Cryo process completed. Automatic Revive in AN ERROR HAS OCCURED 0xC0000004"
I'm guessing they must be developing the OS on very old hardware, so perhaps that is what you need to do next time you to install React OS, because 2.0 GHZ processor you are using may be just too fast for the system.
Hey, I really like your channel! Let me guess, your name is Job (Biblical) if not, you have in the true meaning, his patience. Thank you for sharing your video. 👍🙂👍. New Subscriber.
NO.. I got it.. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the video, especially since I kind of knew it wouldn't work on nothing much more than in a VM... Had a good time, tho.. Thanx;.!!
You all are incredibly rude, this team has worked very hard on this operating system COMPLETELY from scratch since 2004, and you all are bashing on it. Yeah it might be frustrating, but if you hate it so much, just use another OS - there are thousands out there. This is a really cool operating system that has a LOT of protentional, and, as far as I am aware, it is the only FREE operating system that can run windows programs. So stop being rude and show some courtesy.
Here I am, browsing from Linux while playing Overwatch. I run quite a few Windows Programs on my Linux system and likely with more stability than ReactOS. There is absolutely zero value in having an OS running in a VM to use as break-point for running old Windows programs. If I want to do that I can just install XP in a VM.
Personally I'd just use Wine or Crossover Office for games, and anything that doesn't run under Wine or Steam isn't worth my playing it. Especially that abomination Roblox (pretty much the ONLY reason my daughter's machine has a MSWindows partition).
@@jochannan7379 yes they did everything from scratch without any Microsoft code. Also they shifted to winnt for stability then they keep changing the target for their compatibility reach.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Where did I imply that they didn't resp. that they used microsoft code? I just note that in the very beginning the goal was to clone W95.
Here is a more detailed written analysis, with other tests and findings from ReactOS in 2020 (it's in Portuguese Brazil, but I recommend using a translator): brunoalvieira.blogspot.com/2020/06/analise-o-react-os-em-2020.html
Gaming on ReactOS using Windows/Linux Virtual Machine is actually pointless.. play the game straight up instead.. ReactOS might not get a stable version for over a hundred years so don't mind it anymore. ..
Still, it is a better choice than FAT, and with winbtrfs there is a very stable windows driver for it available. So generally I would say this was a good decision.
No, ReactOS is more like NT 4.0 plus. Windows 2000 PRO is much better! You cannot even load programs on this thing! No, there are problems! You did well stopping! Very correct observations! I got the OS working on my Toshiba AMD-x64 Dual Core A215, and my Dell Optipex GX-620, yet I threw all my older software at it. If you got there you would find that NO OLDER gaming software would work, it does not support WOW16.DLL. I did get one of my older software to work, Kasparov Chessmate. I could not even install Office 97, 2002, XP, or 2007. I am just using the OpenOffice 4.1.5...but this OS is not really viable except as a VirtualBox experiment like I am using it. Frankly, Windows NT 4.0 worked better in the VirtualBox than this OS!
"only supports FAT32" Bruh. There goes a lot of reasoning to try using this at all. They should just shoot for being the FOSS version of windows instead of the ancient version of windows.
Microsoft has no reason to. Windows 10 is free to use doesn't require activation or payment to use. So it's not like react os will harm Microsoft. Plus windows isn't even their main business anymore.
@@NazmusLabs It what universe? Windows 10 either comes pre-installed on a new machine you buy, so that that the license is part of its price, or you must buy a license. They don't hand it out for free.
@Johannes Rohr Windows 10 no longer requires a license to use. Starting with Windows 10, you can simply not enter a product key and Windows will install & work forever without requiring activation. The OS doesn't expire after 30 days like Windows 7 and earlier does. So, no, you DON'T need to pay for it. You DON'T need to pirate it either. So in what universe, you ask? In our universe. :)
@@NazmusLabs ... only if the machine on which you install it had windows 7 or 10 installed in the past. I am not aware of Microsoft turning their flagship product into a free-for-all. This would have been headline news. BTW, I recently did install Windows 10 without a license key on a new machine and did complain about being unlicensed.
Johannes Rohr what you are talking about is licensed Win7 & 8 pcs that gets a free upgrade to Win10 & activates. I am NOT talking about that. If you build a new PC that never had any OS before, you can install win10 on it without a product key and use it indefinitely without the OS ever expiring. Yes you will get a watermark on the desktop telling you to activate but that’s it. No annoying popups or time limits. How about rather than arguing with me, you do your research. Look it up. It takes two minutes.
I mean NO disrespect to the talented developers and contributors that have worked tirelessly on ReactOs over the years. But it has been a DECADE now, and it's alpha 0.4? What is the point of continuing development at this point? This is someone's hobby project that has gone on too long... like that 67 Mustang your uncle keeps on blocks in his garage, swearing he'll get it restored some day. Yes it's cool to look at, and certainly has historical significance. Every now and then he buys a new parts, or cranks up the engine, or changes the fluids, but the whole family knows that it will NEVER be in drive-able shape. Really, if you need old Windows for gaming or business software, just run a stand-alone Windows XP SP 3 system with NO direct internet connection, or install XP on a virtual machine... or better yet, install Linux and run Wine or Steam.
If it were just ten years... In fact, development has been going on since 2003, and officially they always name 1996 as the year when it started (called FreeWin95 back then)...
Theme Lubuntu to Windows 2000. Many retro windows games work great with Lutris + Wine out of the box. Many other games have been ported over on Steam. Pick up an old ex-Office i5 slap in an Nvidia 1050 and away u go.
ReactOS will never amount to anything. Nobody wants to swap to an inferior Windows copy that has stability miles worse than Windows. Just use Linux with wine.
Reactos has support for BSOD is the perfect windows experience
Yeah, at least they are accurate at simulating that aspect.
😂😂😂😂
its just not worth it
If you want some help for another reactos run, feel free to drop by in mattermost or our unofficial discord server, we can give you a hand in working around certain quirks. Also, if you look out for another machine, its useful if it has a serial port, so we can do some debugging on what exactly causes the issues, making it easier to fix them.
And you mentioned btrfs, just for correction, it is not a ntfs replacement, it is a different filesystem coming from the linux world and the reasons it was added was because the snapshop feature will make it easier to restore a broken install on hardware in the future and also helps the driver porter analysing issues. reactos has ntfs support, but not for setup and by default only read-only, but experimental write support can be enabled.
Great and Fair video btw :)
Would that be the 'ReactOS Community' server? I joined there, as I'm the lead dev on an old gaming suite that uses DX8 and I am curious to discover if our software runs, and if it can be made to run, now. We tried a while back, with no luck.
I want to thank you for this video, because it saved me the trouble of doing this test myself.
If I remember correctly ReactOS worked pretty good on my old Optiplex 755 a few years back. And that system has a Radeon HD 4000 series card I believe (forgot which exact model tho). I don't remember trying any games on the system. But thought I should mention it anyway. I do not remember having any install issues, it just installed and ran as far as I remember. Sorry I could not give any more information. I think I didn't stick with it because it failed to run something, and I can not remember what that was. Sorry.
Oh boy. I love frustration and pain!
Btrfs is not ReactOS equivalent to NTFS. Btrfs comes from the Linux realm (although not often used) and is a different file system than the more traditional ones (FAT, NTFS, Ext4, XFS etc.), more suited to servers or other data-critical applications and a sort of more open implementation of ZFS (another file system usually used in BSD, available in Linux, but restricted due to licensing). It seems weird that ReactOS is trying to implement it.
I've heard that ReactOS works with the WINE project (at least on some basic level, using its libraries), so if you feel adventurous you might as well test retro gaming on Linux using WINE on a perhaps newer machine. Just in that case don't forget to run WINE in 32-bit mode using an environment variable (there is a FAQ on winehq.org) for higher success rates (and/or try PlayOnLinux, winetricks, Lutris, CrossOver etc). But I'm sure it isn't better than using dedicated hardware from appropriate era with the OS games were designed to run on.
Most of ReactOS' userland is from WINE. Without WINE they wouldn't have gotten anywhere, I believe. As a rule of thumb, what doesn't run in WINE, doesn't run in ReactOS - which kind of defeats its purpose.
As for BTRFS, yes it is a Linux file system, but thanks to winbtrfs, there is decent support for it in the Windows world, so this may be a good choice, if they just can't figure how to make NTFS work.
Did you upload this video just for me? I installed XP on an old PC for games, ReactOS popped into my mind, and then I searched and you had uploaded this perfect little video merely hours before. cool channel btw
Lucky timing! Glad you liked it.
XP POS 2009 edition is rock solid
Thanks for going through this ordeal! For some reason, both the developers and almost everyone making videos on it tests them only in VirtualBox, which gives the false impression that it is somewhat usable, at least for some ten minutes. I have been following the development of ReactOS since around 2003, and I feel that with the popularity of virtualisation, its hardware support has even gotten worse. I think, very little development effort goes into making it work with real hardware, because Virtualbox can always give you the convenient illusion that it is somewhat usable. And yet, whether or not it runs on real hardware is what matters in the end.
If you think about it: Development has started around 1996 (by the name of FreeWin95), so it is 24 years now that they are working on it. Compare its state to what Linux had achieved after 24 years of development to put things into perspective. I think it is a lost cause.
it is. Makes no sense to end user, considering windows piracy is very smooth and secure.
@@mari2. Sure, privacy is horrible in Windows :) But that's why I use Linux
the difference between then and now is the lack of manpower and the incident of the leaked source code which delayed the development. Nowadays, there are actually people working on this. Looking at the change logs, blog posts and contributors, you can see that most of the action just started in 2017.
Proton on Linux is progressing quite well these days for open source retro gaming
Hey man good stuff u got there hoping channel rises soon btw if u wanna get into algorithm better use sum tags u got a lot of good content but there is no views
Thanks, but I'm not sure what you mean by the tag thing. Every video of mine has at least half a dozen tags, and they do seem to be getting recommended more and more lately.
You deserve many many mote subs dude 🤙
wonderful review..
I can relate to all your troubleshooting techniques in an attempt to load an alternative OS, mine being OI, OpenIndiana
the Open Solaris fork..
Fun fact you can recompile ReactOS like Linux but from the react compiler. Requires to know C and a modern pc.
Thanks, you just saved me from some unnecessary heartache and pain. Cause I thought I was going to run a Ryzen B450 build with ReactOS. I doubt I would have a motherboard after that.
Please try a latest nightly build. Also, Cave Story works in it.
Thumbs up for giving the straight answer right away and not beating around the bush
Can confirm that ReactOS installs just fine on 2 GHz P4
Awesome video, thanks for going through all this mess for us. It's probably not that stable indeed :)
Sounds like the installation process is a nightmare. I'd probably give up far before you did to get this thing to work.
Not to say there isn't potential given enough elbow grease, but they have a long way to go before one can even begin to entertain having this as something to use playing games.
What is most frustrating isn't that things don't work, but is the fact that you first have to try and lookup things for hours on hours on hours.
Things like the mouse issue as well as the SATA/IDE incompatibilities is something they could easily implement in the install procedure as some sort of help text before installing.
I suspect the SATA DVD drive worked because it was used to boot and the BIOS would have loaded the OS from the disc independently from the bad implementation of SATA control on said disc.
5:11 What the hell, it has dvorak as the default keyboard layout? It's amazing that they are trying to implement btrfs though. I thought maybe they just call their ntfs btrfs like you said in the video, but it seems to be actual btrfs as we know it from Linux. Now btrfs is pretty buggy itself, at least when it comes to RAID setups, but if you're working with only one drive it's a great fs.
You deserve more subscribers.
If you want to know the answer to the question, it's no. If you want to watch anyways, enjoy.
Honestly, that Skyrim clip kind of our it all in perspectives where it's at. I actually am really impressed with the project and how it's progressed since I first became aware of it.
9:20 I have the shown DELL INSPIRON 9400. But it wont work.
I don't have an Inspiron 9400. That case was used for a bunch of different machines with wildly varying hardware configurations. ReactOS might work well on some, but not others. Those images were meant as general illustrations of Intel machines I have that it MIGHT work better on, but haven't tried.
@@AtomicPurple Thanks foranswering. It works on my 20 Years old Toshiba Satelite 2410 😂.
Perhaps ReactOS will be usable in another 20 years if the installation process starting from booting problems is that janky.
There is a newer version of OS/2 Warp called eComStation (which development has ceased) and ArcaOS by Arca Noae (which is still being developed).
I have an AMD-based Toshiba Satellite C70D-B from 2015. It's dirty, the keycap for F1 is missing and the left mouse button is broken. I only use it when I have to work with optical media because my main laptop doesn't have an optical drive. ReactOS (Live CD) works on it flawlessly. The trackpad and the keyboard worked first try.
Is there any OS like react os, but based on windows 10? Or somenthing like that
hi
ReactOS predecessor was FreeWin95 BUT
"FreeWin95 was the predecessor to ReactOS which was focused on making an open source clone of Windows 95. It never amounted to anything other than being the eventual genesis of ReactOS. The founder and coordinator of FreeWin95 project was Yannick Majoros."
reactos.org/wiki/FreeWin95
"In February 1998, ReactOS began"
reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS/History
Considering the low amount of money and people helping this is the result. Only the wine project and other few help. It is like a black sheep for Linux.
I think this is also a result of wrong choices made. Back when Linus Thorvalds started coding Linux, there were no virtual machines, so from the get go he had to make sure that his kernel worked on real hardware. The result was something absolutely rock-solid.
Back when I first tested reactos 0.1 in 2003, it was a pure command line OS, but it actually ran on my PC. Now, the devs don't even seem to bother anymore about real hardware, because everyone is using VirtualBox anyway. Instead they focus on polishing the UI and adding features in order to have something to present. I have the impression that they go for the low-hanging fruit instead of taking on the more difficult and dauting task of improving basic stability and hardware compatibility.
@@jochannan7379 I always thought that the project should allow you to get device drivers target for windows instead of making from scratch and then improve over there. It is a complicated mess more by legal issues like with bsd.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Sure, that's the theory, but in practice, drivers very often don't install. With my Thinkpad T420, a device you would expect to be relatively well supported because it is fairly old and widespread, I have tried the snappy driver installer which is recommended by the ReactOS wiki reactos.org/wiki/Install_a_driver#3rd-party_Driver_Packs and the success was very mixed. One essential would have been e.g. to get Wifi working. Wasn't possible. I also tried on some other legacy machines, including a Dell Latitude E6420 and a Fujitsu Esprimo desktop, all dated standard hardware. I don't know how much work is involved in making sure that 3rd party drivers can install, but clearly that work hasn't been completed, and there seems to be limited attention to this task.
ReactOS has been worked since this was posted. I don't believe it has advanced much.
Very good try. Awesome vid keep it up!
professional video. keep it up
Boy that's a noisy vga signal.
It probabaly doesn't have a low pass filter, I'll bet it would look better on a CRT
It looks flawless on the CRT monitor I actually use. The signal you're seeing has been through a KVM, and a VGA splitter, then it's sent 10 feet across the room to a VGA to HDMI adapter, and is then fed into an upscaler that converts it to 1080p, and finally it gets sent to my portable capture card where it's recorded. Then in post, I squish the footage back to a 4:3 aspect ratio, and do color correction to compensate for the upscaler, which like to screw with the brightness and color balance.
4:18 NGL, That's a Pretty Cool LG Drive :)
Tried it ten years ago and it wasn't usable. I was hoping that 10 years can make difference but it looks like nothing changed
underrated video
Thanks man. Stopped me from even trying. Was wondering if reactOS would be at a point where we could have a winxp replacement for UEFI PC's. No dice
well, looks like remaking ms window with just a few people is going to take forever... I have no idea that this project has go on for 10 years and it's still in alpha...
its been in alpha since 1998 and also apparently reactos lacks developers.
@@manhvu4988 Look at how tiny the developer group is github.com/orgs/reactos/people and then count how many of them have actually contributed to the project during the last year. To me it looks exceedingly unlikely that they might ever get out of alpha
Attendant: "Hello Sir, these are our new cryosleep chambers. they provide everything your body needs in your 300 year sleep. Go ahead and lie down, the process will begin shortly after the lid is closed"
Customer: "Thank you."
SYSTEM: "Cryo process has been started"
Customer: "Ok, this is cool. Say, what OS does this run on?"
Attendand: "Oh, sir, I don't know much about the internal system, but I can assure we use the latest version of ReactOS."
Customer: "Did you just say ReactOS? GET ME OUT OF H-"
SYSTEM: "Cryo process completed. Automatic Revive in AN ERROR HAS OCCURED 0xC0000004"
ReactOS is the perfect Windows replacement, and even outperforms it. Best way Windows-crash simulator !
I'm guessing they must be developing the OS on very old hardware, so perhaps that is what you need to do next time you to install React OS, because 2.0 GHZ processor you are using may be just too fast for the system.
If react os can run windows applications then it is a very useful tool that can be used to shoehorn real windows onto a stubborn pc.
Hey, I really like your channel! Let me guess, your name is Job (Biblical) if not, you have in the true meaning, his patience.
Thank you for sharing your video. 👍🙂👍. New Subscriber.
NO.. I got it.. Nevertheless, I really enjoyed the video, especially since I kind of knew it wouldn't work on nothing much more than in a VM... Had a good time, tho.. Thanx;.!!
You all are incredibly rude, this team has worked very hard on this operating system COMPLETELY from scratch since 2004, and you all are bashing on it. Yeah it might be frustrating, but if you hate it so much, just use another OS - there are thousands out there. This is a really cool operating system that has a LOT of protentional, and, as far as I am aware, it is the only FREE operating system that can run windows programs. So stop being rude and show some courtesy.
Here I am, browsing from Linux while playing Overwatch. I run quite a few Windows Programs on my Linux system and likely with more stability than ReactOS. There is absolutely zero value in having an OS running in a VM to use as break-point for running old Windows programs. If I want to do that I can just install XP in a VM.
Personally I'd just use Wine or Crossover Office for games, and anything that doesn't run under Wine or Steam isn't worth my playing it. Especially that abomination Roblox (pretty much the ONLY reason my daughter's machine has a MSWindows partition).
*sigh*... Thanks for this video. I tried a Linux for 3 days and had to go back to shitty Windows.
just as god intended
I think that reacos is not supposed to be installed on retro hardware.
I wonder if the newest version of reactOS can run roblox 😕
Just to test it
Absolutely not
This was pure comedy!!! 😂🤣🤣 FFS
Isn't ReactOS more of a Windows 95 or 98 replacement and not XP?
Considering it's a Windows NT clone, and 95/98 are both DOS based, not so much.
Nt4 was the first target
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez The predecessor of ReactOS was called FreeWin95, they started 1996. I don't know that they ever produced real code though.
@@jochannan7379 yes they did everything from scratch without any Microsoft code. Also they shifted to winnt for stability then they keep changing the target for their compatibility reach.
@@AlejandroRodolfoMendez Where did I imply that they didn't resp. that they used microsoft code? I just note that in the very beginning the goal was to clone W95.
Here is a more detailed written analysis, with other tests and findings from ReactOS in 2020 (it's in Portuguese Brazil, but I recommend using a translator): brunoalvieira.blogspot.com/2020/06/analise-o-react-os-em-2020.html
Gaming on ReactOS using Windows/Linux Virtual Machine is actually pointless.. play the game straight up instead.. ReactOS might not get a stable version for over a hundred years so don't mind it anymore. ..
Great video. Professional.
Btrfs is *not* the anything equivalent of NTFS.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
Still, it is a better choice than FAT, and with winbtrfs there is a very stable windows driver for it available. So generally I would say this was a good decision.
I tryed few times, the thing has a nice bsod, the only that I saw all the time
You lost me at 64bit... Isnt it a 32bit system?
Nope, it's a 64-bit CPU, just running a 32-bit OS
No, ReactOS is more like NT 4.0 plus. Windows 2000 PRO is much better! You cannot even load programs on this thing! No, there are problems! You did well stopping! Very correct observations! I got the OS working on my Toshiba AMD-x64 Dual Core A215, and my Dell Optipex GX-620, yet I threw all my older software at it. If you got there you would find that NO OLDER gaming software would work, it does not support WOW16.DLL. I did get one of my older software to work, Kasparov Chessmate. I could not even install Office 97, 2002, XP, or 2007. I am just using the OpenOffice 4.1.5...but this OS is not really viable except as a VirtualBox experiment like I am using it. Frankly, Windows NT 4.0 worked better in the VirtualBox than this OS!
Omg. I'm sorry I'm enjoying your video.
May still be better than Win ME
"only supports FAT32"
Bruh. There goes a lot of reasoning to try using this at all. They should just shoot for being the FOSS version of windows instead of the ancient version of windows.
I suspect Microsoft cuts them a check to delay release.
Microsoft has no reason to. Windows 10 is free to use doesn't require activation or payment to use. So it's not like react os will harm Microsoft. Plus windows isn't even their main business anymore.
@@NazmusLabs It what universe? Windows 10 either comes pre-installed on a new machine you buy, so that that the license is part of its price, or you must buy a license. They don't hand it out for free.
@Johannes Rohr Windows 10 no longer requires a license to use. Starting with Windows 10, you can simply not enter a product key and Windows will install & work forever without requiring activation. The OS doesn't expire after 30 days like Windows 7 and earlier does. So, no, you DON'T need to pay for it. You DON'T need to pirate it either. So in what universe, you ask? In our universe. :)
@@NazmusLabs ... only if the machine on which you install it had windows 7 or 10 installed in the past.
I am not aware of Microsoft turning their flagship product into a free-for-all. This would have been headline news.
BTW, I recently did install Windows 10 without a license key on a new machine and did complain about being unlicensed.
Johannes Rohr what you are talking about is licensed Win7 & 8 pcs that gets a free upgrade to Win10 & activates. I am NOT talking about that. If you build a new PC that never had any OS before, you can install win10 on it without a product key and use it indefinitely without the OS ever expiring. Yes you will get a watermark on the desktop telling you to activate but that’s it. No annoying popups or time limits.
How about rather than arguing with me, you do your research. Look it up. It takes two minutes.
I mean NO disrespect to the talented developers and contributors that have worked tirelessly on ReactOs over the years. But it has been a DECADE now, and it's alpha 0.4? What is the point of continuing development at this point? This is someone's hobby project that has gone on too long... like that 67 Mustang your uncle keeps on blocks in his garage, swearing he'll get it restored some day. Yes it's cool to look at, and certainly has historical significance. Every now and then he buys a new parts, or cranks up the engine, or changes the fluids, but the whole family knows that it will NEVER be in drive-able shape. Really, if you need old Windows for gaming or business software, just run a stand-alone Windows XP SP 3 system with NO direct internet connection, or install XP on a virtual machine... or better yet, install Linux and run Wine or Steam.
If it were just ten years... In fact, development has been going on since 2003, and officially they always name 1996 as the year when it started (called FreeWin95 back then)...
ReactOS might be ready by 2100
LMAO. This OS is just bugged as Windows 95 was.
React os is just like windows for hardware that just can't go to windows xp
uuuuuuuugghhhh!Traffic Cone Os! nevermind if they changed the name to that they would get roasted by vlc
Installing ReactOS on VM is alot easier
Druaga1 installed it in real hardware
Theme Lubuntu to Windows 2000. Many retro windows games work great with Lutris + Wine out of the box. Many other games have been ported over on Steam. Pick up an old ex-Office i5 slap in an Nvidia 1050 and away u go.
ReactOS will never amount to anything. Nobody wants to swap to an inferior Windows copy that has stability miles worse than Windows.
Just use Linux with wine.
This is upsetting
Such a stupid OS is that.
To much tired work for a shit os