this is gonna be hurting them in the long run because they are shooting themselves in the foot by declaring war on underpowered hardware, they are a business after all
We need competition asap
Anas
Camarada Gato
I used to think I was gonna download ReactOS one day and get the performance I could out of it or something
I would say that ReactOS already performs at its best in a Windows single core environment.
Anas
Yea but I thought I could install a full version of ReactOS on that PC but I guess it wasn't meant to happen
Camarada Gato
I'm still surprised that nobody are shipping frankenReactOS as if it were pirated Windows.
Something like stealing Windows libraries and whatever else is possible to make ReactOS work in the best possible way based on gambiarra.
Anas
Why aren't they a thing?
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1640458859935420419
Chungy
Mike
Honestly I prefer windows style
Mike
Lukas
Mike
I also love the fact that you start from disk drives
Mike
It's easy to understand where you are
matt
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-VKD3D-1.7
matt
https://www.destructoid.com/the-steam-client-is-dropping-support-for-windows-7-8-and-8-1/
matt
the end party has already started
Can
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1640999904804782080?s=19
Mike
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/1640999904804782080?s=19
Does our notepad support saving with a different end of line? Ie, only cr+lf or also only cr or only lf?
Can
I don't know. Ask Katayama
Mike
Ok, thanks!
Camarada Gato
If the world were a little less imperfect, Windows XP would be the last version of Windows.
Camarada Gato
Alright, another option would be to create a Windows with the same level of modularity as Linux, where you could choose the components and adapt them to your needs.
For example, I could have a Window Server with only GDI, cmd and the necessary libraries for the damn server to work and be updated, and not with everything I don't need to make it work.
matt
Alright, another option would be to create a Windows with the same level of modularity as Linux, where you could choose the components and adapt them to your needs.
For example, I could have a Window Server with only GDI, cmd and the necessary libraries for the damn server to work and be updated, and not with everything I don't need to make it work.
reactOS server with these ideas would have been neat
matt
If the world were a little less imperfect, Windows XP would be the last version of Windows.
only if US antitrust litigation against microsoft had been more successful (which didn't solve anything in our times).
matt
Vladislav Brezgin
matt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jqUKS5SkXv0&list=PLJEsUX-Vf--qXg3C1lj5PJY8qdBzW8Ow2&index=11
matt
it came from this video, there are many others from that same channel showing this
matt
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJEsUX-Vf--qXg3C1lj5PJY8qdBzW8Ow2
matt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-njjEd1rlo&list=PLJEsUX-Vf--qyv0LXkPfWWKdUPSBiaWy5&index=1
matt
if somebody can find it, maybe we could try it on reactOS to see if it works
Momade
if somebody can find it, maybe we could try it on reactOS to see if it works
Have you tried asking the author of said videos for the theme file?
matt
no, the channel is too old
matt
it may have become too inactive at this point
matt
it may be lost software
matt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=34HYEEIxt38
matt
advanced windows commandline video from a true cyberhacker
Alejandro Jeditobe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLi_vHMe9A
matt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coLi_vHMe9A
ReactOS will probably be the only way to avoid microsoft license requirements
Chungy
If you want an NT OS, yes.
Mark
If the world were a little less imperfect, Windows XP would be the last version of Windows.
It would really suck if the world would be stuck at xp, it misses a lot of features like typing in the startmenu
Camarada Gato
It would really suck if the world would be stuck at xp, it misses a lot of features like typing in the startmenu
The problem is because I think that all versions of Windows since NT 6.0 are excessive consumption of computational resources.
Camarada Gato
I wanted Windows to just manage computational resources, facilitate software programming and provide a shell that makes life easier for the user.
That doesn't include clogging up the system with services that most people don't use.
Mark
Camarada Gato
Mark
And boot times have greatly decreased since xp
Mark
Both my W10 desktop and win11 laptop boot in 2-3 seconds
Camarada Gato
Can you boot without thrashing on a machine with a hard drive and 2GB of memory?
Camarada Gato
I know that for many people this can be boring, it may seem like freshness, but I think computing could be more accessible and cheaper if the most used software were more efficient.
Julio
I also love the fact that you start from disk drives
To be honest, I struggled a lot to understand unix's way to set up directories herarchy
Mike
You don't know immediately where something physically is, if you have more than 1 partition
Julio
You don't know immediately where something physically is, if you have more than 1 partition
Yeah, mounting points was a very difficult concept for me, and was not compatible with windows's drives identified with letters
Julio
All of those unix quirks I finally understand when I started using tinycore linux, that's why I recommend it for learning
Timofej
ReactOS group of linux neofetch windows 98 a brainfuck
Julio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tas0O586t80
Chungy
A crustacean not singing about Rust
Chungy
🤔
matt
matt
Mark
Can you boot without thrashing on a machine with a hard drive and 2GB of memory?
Why in earth would you have 2gb or less in 2023?
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Nova Forte: why would you need more than 2gb?
Camarada Gato
Why in earth would you have 2gb or less in 2023?
If you go to any poorer country or region, you'll find a lot.
Where I live, technology is expensive and a lot of people put up with bad hardware because they can't afford something better.
Mark
To be honest, I struggled a lot to understand unix's way to set up directories herarchy
To be fair, not everyone agrees on those directories in Linux anyway
Mark
Running mssql, 2 or 3 visual studio instances and probably Vs code next to it
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Nova Forte: my xp machine with a p4 and 2gb ram did that too back in 2006, browser, messenger, battlefield, all running side by side. what changed?
Mark
Nova Forte: my xp machine with a p4 and 2gb ram did that too back in 2006, browser, messenger, battlefield, all running side by side. what changed?
Visual studio from 2006 lacks a lot qol improvements
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Nova Forte: like not being able to update variables in the watch window? oh wait
Mark
Not sure what you are doing wrong
Matrix Telegram Bridge
Nova Forte: where has my operating system gone?
maybe you can tell me why exactly every program needs more resources for the same work nowadays. is it all cpu mitigations? can we blame aslr? the 64bit pointer size? who did this to me?
Chungy
Nova Forte: where has my operating system gone?
maybe you can tell me why exactly every program needs more resources for the same work nowadays. is it all cpu mitigations? can we blame aslr? the 64bit pointer size? who did this to me?
There's a lot of things happening at once. 64-bit pointer size is probably one of the major things :p
Chungy
it saddens me that Linux's x32 experiment never took off. Could have been the perfect balancing act.