ReactOS 0.4.16

mysterydip an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Looks like a lot of improvements on long-standing hard-to-find issues. Kudos to the team and thank you for providing an alternative OS that keeps getting better

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MisterTea 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do a lot of industrial automation and it is the one thing that keeps me boat-anchored to Windows. Every little programmable doodad like signal conditioners and temperature transmitters have their own USB programming cables and their own, mostly crappy windows config software. PLC software is another abomination, hopelessly Windows anchored, bloated GUI monsters, some built on top of Visual Studio (Beckhoff TwinCAT.)

I have donated to ReactOS in the past in the hopes of one day freeing myself from this hell.

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Almondsetat 21 minutes ago | parent [-]

Why not spend some money on an uncensored LLM to reverse engineer or create an open clean room reimplementation?

	▲	bluGill 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That is only recently become an option you could try, and we don't know long term how well it will work. Remember laws may change (and there are some legal issues around LLMs that are not clear at all)

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Aldipower an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Love it! Haiku, ReactOS and sure Linux. But if necessary, the real art of computing can be kept up!

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MisterTea 30 minutes ago | parent [-]

Now all we need is an alternative clean-room implementation of Mac OS.

	▲	Lizard5260 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You should take a look at ravynOS! https://ravynos.com/

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giancarlostoro 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

One of my favorite projects, maybe someday it can be a true daily driver, I wonder if that's the goal for 1.0 is to claim that they've gotten it stable enough to run as though it were Windows 7 or something to that effect.

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montroser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Quite the dedication have these people!

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thataccount 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This reminds me of the feeling of when Linux got graphical installers instead of long text based ones asking you many, many questions.

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forinti 18 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's not only that it was text based, but that it failed in all sorts of ways.

I had a particularly bad afternoon in early 2000s when I tried to install Linux on various machines (4 or 5, each one with different hardware) and failed with all of them. Of course, I wasn't as savvy as I am now, but it's been years since I've seen an issue with a Linux install; although I might have to download and compile a driver for one thing or another, the install itself doesn't fail.

	▲	thataccount 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Mine was in the 90s and concerned X11 failing or crashing due to the video card typically. Redhat 5.2ish or Suse.

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guitarlimeo 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TIL that the GUI of ReactOS isn't based on React. All these years spent baffled that who would like to build an OS with JS, thanks to me only reading the headlines lol

	▲	kijashdkujdfhas 24 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Well ReactOS did have a 15 year lead on the name over React...1998 vs 2013, going by first public release of each.

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tiahura an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This seems like the sort of project that ai would excel at. /goal excel runs flawlessly.

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actionfromafar an hour ago | parent [-]

Well, Excel has AI now, so maybe it can help.

	▲	aussieguy1234 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Excel writes Excel, which writes Excel... Now we have an infinite loop