ReactOS, the open source Windows clone

What effect would it have on geopolitics if ReactOS, an open source clone of Windows, got serious funding?
Where might the project acquire a lot of funding?

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C-C++ ftw

Crowdsourcing would be the best option since many people can each contribute a small piece.
Also a new open sourced hardware platform is also needed, like a North American designed and produced system that doesn't have backdoors for "intelligence" agencies

Would it be possible to use existing processors constrained by an open source controller?

why choice a windows clone if there are tons of linux distributions?
Many programms that are not available on Linux can be installed and run with wine.
And the rest of the programms where there are not really an alternative and not available on Linux will probably if enough people switch to linux.

this is a bilderberger browser

it would be more intuitive to the plebs and require cheaper hardware

there are quiet a few Desktop environments that are gives you the feel and look similar to other known OS or user types like deepin or Gnome for the more mobile user type, any distribution with the KDE Plasma DE for the more advanced windows user, Mint for the beginners.

The only thing someone should work on to give an easier way without package manager to install software.

doesnt this shit still have problems running halflife 2 even?

"Keep doing the same thing but for free" is a much easier sell than "learn a different way of doing things."

I don't know about HL2, but ReactOS is still in alpha. That's why it needs funding.

This

I admire the spirit of ReactOS but a distro like Mint can already run almost any Windows program or game.

How do we get people to adopt it?

>it still can't run exes

thats the one good thing about react os, it can run the ultimate thing linux can't.

For the games part if we take a look at steam it almost seems like they want to get away from microsoft/windows.
For the programms, I still waiting until there is a software that doesn't exist as linux version or without an alternative.

For at least 90% of computer users that are not gaming or do office work any distribution with an web browser preinstalled is enough (like they do anything else).
I mean think about the user that uses microsoft office products on top, show them that they probably never used or will use any feature of Word, Excel or whatever that is not in openoffice/libreoffice.
For the standard Microsoft office usage you need a windows license, pay for office license and probably pay for an antivirus on top.
Also the windows defenders usually talk about the "driver issue", the funny part is they probably didn't own any device in the past 10 years without linux drivers and also in that argument it's often ignored how many drivers that worked with windows xp don't have any support anymore.


Do you know about Wine?

WINE is significantly better than it would otherwise be as a direct result of ReactOS, since they both have to do the same work of reverse engineering WinAPI functions and kernel internals. I would agree that the use case it originally sought to fulfil has kind of been overtaken by other solutions like Linux+WINE, parallels, VMWare etc but it's still a cool project.

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>dogpisswine
>good
nah

Microsoft will open source Windows within five years. They're now a services company, not a product company. They will squeeze the last little bit out of enterprise Windows licenses and then turn maintenance over to the open source community. Cloud based software is their focus now. Don't be surprised if they end up spinning off Xbox into its own company.

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Make half life 3 exclusevly available for it and we would have both the normies and the memes, every pc player that ever heard of half life would at least buy a setup for the memes if it becomes well funded and widely available, just make sure its not (((corrupted))) and invest a lot on hardware development and maybe there's a chance

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The key to this is you have to be REALLY diligent about inspecting modules. NSA types just contribute their shit to the project and that's how they slip in the backdoors.

>Microsoft will open source Windows within five years.
why would they do that?

cheaper than beta testing

I don't trust Anyone who isn't on TempleOS,
To many CIA niggers out there

Linux is not trivial to learn, having a pretty ui is only 5% of it

I actually could see a commercial reason for such OS. There are a lot of companies that have software for a whole infrastructure that is based on windows. Many had trouble to switch from XP to windows 7 and now have the trouble to switch to windows 10, which is extreme uncertain how they will allow compatibility or if the windows will randomly update, shut down services ect.

they might show some code, but never the whole thing. One reasons are the backdoors for the nsa.

Our hope on that matter could be ARM based CPUs, I doubt they were able to build in backdoors when they licensed their design to many companies from different countries.

Learning is bliss. Mainstream hardware is compatible with modern linux distros.

retard

none, as the software you'd be running would be closed source (majority of windows apps)....soooo....essentially 0 effect.

I'd go full freetard before entertaining this stupid idea.

Other than installing software that is not from the package manager/application installer I don't see how the majority of people could struggle with any of the Ubuntu distributions.
Also the more people switch and express their misunderstandings and problems the easier the DEs will adapted

Linux for ARM + Weyland + GNUStep + GCC Swift = Apple iOS's poor cousin

Go to Jow Forums

Most people grew up with and are familiar with Windows, not to mention they use it all day every day at work. For people that are competent, there is still a learning curve that requires effort. For the people that freak out when an icon is moved on their desktop, there is no hope.

Based

I'm a programmer and even I, when I use linux, still get hung up on random shit that would take me 2 seconds to do if I were on windows. I've been using Windows for 20 years, I know where every single menu is, and whatever setting I want to change I can do it blindfolded.
I have absolutely zero interest in relearning all that trivial shit from scratch.

Linux can stay in the server world as far as I'm concerned.

>For the programms, I still waiting until there is a software that doesn't exist as linux version or without an alternative.
>without an alternative

What is it that you fucking linux-shilling autists don't get about the fact people don't want to spend a shitload of time relearning things they already know?
I'd much rather pay 100 bucks to Microsoft than spend years relearning where all the settings and shit are, which would be the equivalent of several tens of thousands of dollars in time wasted.

If you want to get me to switch, YOU better find ME several high profile applications that are relevant to my interests and/or work field that I can use on linux and I can't on windows. (desktop apps, not servers.)
I'll be waiting.

Spaghetti speaks the truth.

It would let various nation states release their own NSA-free versions of windows for domestic consumption. You should try to get funding from organizations like the EU by presenting to them how much hard currency they ship off to the US to stay on the Microsoft release treadmill just for the privilege to run software backdoored by the US.

I think free software is functional to the point that it takes a special kind of stupid to run a public organization on anything other than libreoffice and some sort of free OS.

>t. App maker and/or student

I'm a consultant for banks and insurances. Mostly do data warehousing and Java backends, sometimes still work on JSF 2 frontends.
Try again faggot.

>You should try to get funding from organizations like the EU by presenting to them how much hard currency they ship off to the US to stay on the Microsoft release treadmill just for the privilege to run software backdoored by the US.
Interesting idea!

People don't want Windows. They want an OS that can run the 40+ years of back catalog software. This isn't a limitation of Linux, x86 or even the ability to run an exe. It's the layer between - the drivers, MFC (window utilites), DirectDraw, etc. etc. etc. of tech that people utilize to make Windows applications that would be missing from said new OS. That means either a lot of reverse engineering, or something even crazier.

People want double click to open and shareable files that they could download.
You could go to sublime text and download the mac and windows version and install within a minute but linux is more complicated for normal users who cannot even distinguish between correct links on a porn website

Is it any better than it was in 2003 ? That's when I last tried it . BeOS was still a thing.

You need to be include total expenditures across the entire economy, not just line items on government budgets. You also somehow need to address the support and security patch issue - which you can address by pointing out that Microsoft just drops support at some point. You need to make it clear that every machine running ReactOS is more secure that one running Microsoft Windows. Also sell it that it will allow a country to control their own technology and development.