Petrus
Is btrfs C: working?
Petrus
my last tries finished with a grey screen of death 😞
Jeff
USB booting?
Anonymous
No
Anonymous
Only with RAMboot
Jeff
:(
Jeff
My laptop has no cd drive
Anonymous
My test laptop doesn't have CD drive either, so I just ramboot ROS
Jeff
:(
Julen
:(
Use a USB, but not burning the iso, the procedure is here: https://reactos.org/wiki/Installing_ReactOS#USB-RAM_boot
Anonymous
@julenuri,can I ask you something?
Jeff
BSoD on my Ryzen 7 laptop
Eris
ROS is not yet ready to handle ayymd
Alexander
You are 20 years ahead
Anonymous
For now you can get windows XP(with patches) and replace parts of with with ROS equivalents till it BSOD, ig
Anonymous
Alexander
For now you can get windows XP(with patches) and replace parts of with with ROS equivalents till it BSOD, ig
Why should you try that? Other than for debugging
Stas'M
Why should you try that? Other than for debugging
Well... potentially ReactOS ACPI driver will be able to replace XP one
Stas'M
That will make XP work on modern machines
Alexander
I am still hoping for a full time paid ROS developer
Alexander
To make even more progress
Alexander
Has the organisation tried to advertise jobs on job offering websites?
Victor
That will make XP work on modern machines
what's the point in running XP on modern machines?
Mike
Happy easter!
Stas'M
It's hard to say 😛
Eris
what's the point in running XP on modern machines?
better question: what's the point in running a spyware ridden OS on modern machines?
Anonymous
better question: what's the point in running a spyware ridden OS on modern machines?
Which OS is more spyware tho, wintard 10 or win XP
Eris
Anonymous
Though, winXP refuses to run programs that are above NT 5, unlike ROS
Chungy
considering that XP was 5.1... it makes sense.
Eris
Though, winXP refuses to run programs that are above NT 5, unlike ROS
Eris
i honestly cant get behind that either!!! /s
Anonymous
Eris
i hope those devs at microsoft fix this problem
Anonymous
OpenMW and Mindustry launch on ROS where as on XP they're not a valid win32 application
Eris
Anonymous
Eris
openmw doesnt exactly specify what windows version is the minimum, so i'll assume vista/7+
Anonymous
openmw doesnt exactly specify what windows version is the minimum, so i'll assume vista/7+
If vista wasn't running like ass, I'd try OpenMW
Anonymous
Though, on ROS, OpenMW shows that it is missing some .dll files
Anonymous
Which I did copy and then some other error now appears
Eris
and whats the error telling you
Anonymous
Stas'M
what's the point in running XP on modern machines?
Do you remember an article about some cheap laptop with 32 GB SSD? 😏
Stas'M
which comes with Windows 10 preinstalled
Mike
Do you remember an article about some cheap laptop with 32 GB SSD? 😏
Both my brother and my ex GF have one of these. Whoever decided for that emmc size should be punished.
Anonymous
I've seen in shops too, that's horrible
static
It's a problem when Windows w/o apps requires 20-30GB
static
I still do not know what occupies so much space
Eris
games
static
I mean on a default install. Candy Crush Soda Saga Minecraft can't possibily use that much space.
Anonymous
I mean on a default install. Candy Crush Soda Saga Minecraft can't possibily use that much space.
Yeah, but windows itself is 20gb
static
I know, but what exactly uses that much space?
Alexander
Windows 10 has more integrated features than ever before.
It also has many drivers on board
Alexander
Windows 10 has more integrated features than ever before.
It also has many drivers on board
https://superuser.com/questions/50879/why-does-windows-occupy-more-disk-space-compared-to-linux
Mark
Lol Ubuntu
rosbridge
<hbelusca> I don't know... Why Ubuntu and the Like are distributed on DVDs while Windows 2003 comes on a single CD-ROM?
rosbridge
<hbelusca> "Why does Linux occupy more disk space compared to Windows?"
Petrus
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/winsxs-folder-windows-7-8
Petrus
https://superuser.com/a/50905
Lutrulo
<hbelusca> I don't know... Why Ubuntu and the Like are distributed on DVDs while Windows 2003 comes on a single CD-ROM?
Why does Windows 3.1 come on six floppies while Linux distributions can be installed from a single disc?
rosbridge
<hbelusca> Yes exactly !!
rosbridge
<hbelusca> The lesson is , that we have to compare what's comparable.
Stas'M
https://twitter.com/chiakipus/status/1249801134660861959
Stas'M
some conspiracy theory 🤪
Lutrulo
If ReactOS was using the Windows source code, it wouldn’t be crashing on everything that’s not a virtual machine 😂
Tobiyo
👀
Julen
Tobiyo
Fun fact 'ja' means 'yes' in dutch