Previous thread: Wine is an open source compatibility layer that allows programs developed for Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems, primarily by translating Windows system calls into POSIX system calls.
ReactOS is an open source operating system based on the Windows NT architecture. It supports x86 and an AMD64 port, SMT support, and PAE support are underway. Currently ReactOS aims to achieve Windows XP/2003-level kernel (NT5.2) compatibility and NT6+ application compatibility via application layers based on Wine.
Bump. I'm interested in this thread. I tried installing ReactOS on a spare hard drive on my main PC, and it couldn't open the hive file (first step of boot.) No idea what to do. Seriously, I just want XP until the end of time. Btw, any way to recreate that dank olive green theme?
Jaxson Powell
For non-developers it's meant to be installed on VBox.
It should support XP themes, could try moving files from C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes on an XP install and import it to C:\reactos\Resources\Themes on a ROS install
John Miller
Gonna try ReactOS again at some point since they finally added support for booting from a Linux filesystem
Hunter Nelson
I just don't understand why would anyone chose react os over linux+wine. React os is not compatible even with most windows xp software while wine has almost reached windows10 levels of compatibility and it will probably never get out of alpha stage anyways.
Jonathan Edwards
Two questions: 1. Is there an complete guide on how to setup Wine from scratch? 2. How can I make Wine with untested software (the one with shit rating on the review page)?
John Smith
>I just don't understand why would anyone chose react os over linux+wine. Right now no.
>React os is not compatible even with most windows xp software Which ones?
>it will probably never get out of alpha stage anyways. What data are you basing this assertion on? If you look at their github code frequency graph, you will see an overall positive trend. github.com/reactos/reactos/graphs/code-frequency
Why would you choose either. If you want yo run windows programs use windows.
Xavier Martinez
reactos.org is down 504 bad gateway >2019 >not being able to afford a decent gateway
freefags BTFO
Jacob Morales
I personally need only microsoft office and it works very well under wine.
Camden Hall
How well does it support ryzen?
Adam Young
It's not a daily-use normie OS. It's an interesting experiment in building an NT-style OS, but nothing much more than that. It is useful as a tech tool as a FOSS drop-in replacement for Windows PE. That's about as far as I'd take it, in its current state.
That all said, it has a future if more developers jump in and fix issues, add features, and try to make it as feature-complete as possible. We know that Microsoft is just going to continue making Windows 10 more and more shit as time goes on, so at least ROS has a chance at being a proper replacement at some point in the future.
Christian Martin
works fine. The kernel is designed to support practically any x86/x86-64 processor - it doesn't care. And it actually supports unlimited SMT properly, unlike NT5's kernel, which had a limit due to licensing.
In terms of feature support, the kernel is more a cross between the NT5 and NT6 (Vista/7/8/8.1/10) kernels than pure NT5 (2000/XP/2003).
Due to this, ReactOS has a lot going for it - it doesn't get bloated with crap that isn't necessary - no DRM bullshit, no spyware shit, etc. It's designed to be a drop-in replacement, once it gets to a level of parity with NT5's feature-set.
I will give one million dolhairs if someone ports Wine Explorer to GNU/Linux as DE. I bet 1 000 000 dolhairs that this will become standart DE in Linux, and finally a year of Linux Desktop
John Gonzalez
Absolutely degenerate
Chase Perry
No, W2K interface is the best. Boomer will bait on this badly.
Jonathan Murphy
O I'm laffin >precious 7 is dead like rgb >can't lock into the chast that is 10 >proprietary software Wincucks were here for five minutes and already fucking everything up
