![]() > loads fine but css rendering/placement is off on breadcrumbs and article > hangs while loading the page, uses 100% of 1 core > reloads/rerenders infinitely, uses 100% of 1 core Youtube embed on the servo homepage doesn't load Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by defaultĪ quick test-run on the pages linked from the hackernews front page:.There's just something so very usable about the old Windows look and more modern attempts, such as SerenityOS and even ReactOS That's also why I rather enjoyed the Redmond theme even in *nix distros. To be honest, I'm inclined to agree with this. It's been downhill ever since, getting worse and worse with each generation. > Windows 7 with the Classic theme (which really was just a slight evolution over Win2K) was peak UI/UX, and you'll never change my mind. That said, at least LibreOffice lets you have your custom themes and actually offers a variety of different interface layouts, which I think is a nice touch: I wanted to see how LibreOffice would compare on my netbook, and frankly it's better than the new Word, but still "worse" than the old version: There's wayyyy too much god damn whitespace in modern UIs, and it's awful. If I can still be dinking around with Z80 emulation and CP/M I'm not really in a position to discourage others from pursuing such things.> It's whitespace. Having said all that, by all means full steam ahead for ReactOS. It was a very bleak time in computing history. Oh, yeah, we remember DOS and Windows 3.1 and the 286. Besides, I love it because it allows me to run LTSpice on Linux which is the last remaining Windows app for which I have any fondness:) It does at least provide a gateway for people to get off Windows and explore the wider world out there. What benefit is that to the world apart from being a way to run Windows apps without having to pay the MicroSoft rent? It seems to me that it just perpetuates the status quo except without MS. Suppose ReactOS was a perfectly working clone of Windows XP+. Perhaps people asking questions here about running Windows or ReactOS on the Pi is their way of "make some study and inquiries of what is realistically possible and what is not." Why not? That's what an educational forum is for. That is why we have the Pi is not? To enlighten the world to such concepts and computer education in general. On the other hand many of us here might be very new to the concept that there migh even be a non-PC architecture. Many of us here are old and wise enough to realize that trying to run x86 binaries on the Pi, from Windows or anywhere else, is likely to be nothing more than a novelty exercise. There is no need to get angry or casts aspersions as to the size of your fellow forum members brains. This MIGHT be useful for that demographic.Īs to the why of ReactOS - well, why not? Which is the answer most people give me when I way something is a waste of time! Not all Windows programs are closed source. Of course now a days we have WindowsRT for ARM devices, but that is another can or worms. I did try it out on x86 successfully once but it seems like a pretty perverse thing to want to do. Win32 programs can be written, compiled and run on Linux using libwine and I guess that works on ARM as well. Much could be said for wine, as well, except in that case we have a library "shim" to run Windows programs and don't have to build an entire OS.Įxpecting any of this to work on ARM with close source x86 Windows apps seems pretty far fetched but I guess ReactoOS itself can be built for ARM. Why would anyone invest such significant time and effort to build an open source operating system to run an ocean of closed source Windows software? Heater wrote:I have never understood the motivation for building ReactOS. Here's a point of entry to the wiki for prospective users, but the vast majority of the wiki is for, of, and by developers, so you've been forewarned: This would, by necessity, be a lower-performing variant, at least for a significant period of time, most likely (my wild guess would be several years to get within 1% of the optimum possible for a given hardware architecture). It's an interesting idea, but only if you find value in Windows software to begin with. ![]() It's not clear how much functionality has actually been completed, unless the 0.3.15 version number corresponds to functional and bug-fixing completeness of roughly 30% if version 1.0 represents 100% complete (which I doubt). It's currently a very early Alpha at version 0.3.15 which can crash unexpectedly, so it's only suitable for testing and nothing where reliability is a necessity. For those who aren't familiar with it, ReactOS is an attempt to create an open-source, binary-compatible OS alternative to Windows that could be ported to any platform.
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