Is ReactOS Good Yet? (v 0.4.13)

[@ReactOSCommunity]

Thank you for the great video! Your videos help us to raise donations and hire new developers!

[@bejczyreal]

This is epic

[@NatetheNintendofan]

OMG it's React OS

[@americandad1918]

Keep up the great work guys. It's quite a marvel seeing what you've been able to accomplish.

[@biehdc]

You accidentally made your video too soon. The next release, 0.4.14, thats coming out soon, has a lot of nice fixes, the reason it is not yet is because the release manager doesnt allow too many regressions. Even better would be to use a nightly version, which, right now, did the first steps to x64. The SATA port thing is, if you set it to IDE emulation, it usually only works on 2 SATA ports, one is master, the other one slave, the rest disappears. It all is mostly software right now, WineD3D redirects to OpenGL and OpenGL is software emulated, only a very few cards can do accelerated GL right now. Now what you really need to do is to grab yourself a null modem cable and hop into irc, mattermost, telegram or discord, whatever you prefer, to debug the hardware issues you came across, so it works next time.

[@CotyRiddle]

depends on the board. Most bards only have 4 sata ports and in that case it just treats them as primary and secondary IDE each with a master and slave (Emulated) some boards do have more that that like 6 or 8 ports some with an additional controller for just them and in that case yes only the first 2/4 ports will work how ever there are some that will enable all the ports.

[@stefanolugli1461]

So, since it looks like you have a great knowledge about this, is it already time for me to install it on real hardware and use it without too much fear?? :D (I miss playing on my old pentium 4, didn't touch it since when I have to leave Windows xp :/ how safe is reactos from a security point of view?)

[@RFLCPTR]

@@stefanolugli1461 Use Linux.

[@biehdc]

@@stefanolugli1461 No, realisticly, you wont be able to use it without fear (as your daily driver you mean?). As for security, its untested, so windows virus might or might not work. If you dont need the internet, install xp again. If you need internet on it, go with some random linux you like.

[@stefanolugli1461]

@@RFLCPTR I use Linux on a daily bases but ehy the idea of something that could replace windows it's cool af

[@pt8306]

If your screen windows "jerk" around when moving them rather than moving smoothly, you don't have your graphics drivers installed properly and you aren't getting any hardware accelleration. So yes, it's not working at all.

[@MrGencyExit64]

I've weirdly never used this OS before, but I frequently consult its source code to grasp the way certain lower-level parts of Windows may be implemented while developing my own software. It's invaluable for that purpose, as esoteric as it may be.

[@Vizimech]

One day I dream of ReactOS being a drop in replacement for XP through 7 without the security concerns of using ancient Windows OSes. RE: that guy rebuilding ROS for hardware acceleration though, basically what he did was take pieces of Windows Server 2003 and just plopped into ReactOS overwriting ROS's open source implementation of those pieces. While the dream is of course to use all free code, it's pretty impressive to be able to drop in a couple Microsoft DLLs and have it just werk and suddenly hardware acceleration works. Really shows even though ROS is a long ways away from prime time, it has a really strong foundation so far.

[@datavalisofficial8730]

Can you direct me for more info about this?

[@Nunya58294]

​@@datavalisofficial8730 no.

[@Nunya58294]

​​@@datavalisofficial8730 At that point go use Windows.

[@flyaviator7864]

@@Nunya58294 I'm not going to use reactOS

[@repomansez]

I have to note that the use of PlayOnLinux is heavily discouraged, as it's basically abandonware at this point. If you wanna play non-steam games on Linux, look at Lutris.

[@Cobalt985]

@metaphysicalgraffiti ...What? Did you mean to reply to something else?

[@sameash3153]

@@Cobalt985 Ok boomer

[@crylune]

Lutris, ProtonPlus and Winetricks my beloved.

[@stellated]

Someone's probably mentioned this already but Wine on Linux can convert the D3D calls to OpenGL which is hardware accelerated. ReactOS has no hardware acceleration so no matter the graphics library, it will be rendering in software.

[@interlace84]

Pls explain 😲 I know they reverse engineered and rebuilt some stuff from scratch but why even need to install gpu drivers if no acceleration then? That and I saw linus running halo on an older system I felt shouldnt be performing as it did on pure emulation 🤷‍♂️

[@stellated]

​@@interlace84 Sorry, I should have been more clear that I mean Druaga's ReactOS install had no hardware acceleration and I was responding to a comment he made about one of the games running better under Wine. IIRC graphics drivers on Windows provide OpenGL and Direct3D is provided by Microsoft. If druaga had been able to get any graphics drivers to install he probably would have had hardware acceleration through both the GPU vendor's OpenGL implementation and the ReactX layer running on top of that. In Linus' video, they were running it on VirtualBox which is what most ReactOS testing seems to be done on and as a result has working video drivers. NVIDIA cards supported by Forceware 175.19 and 181.22 also look to be working.

[@interlace84]

@@stellated oh wow thanks for clarifying that, sounds like good news 😀 here's hoping one day we'll have a more compatible and stable alternative to both linux and windows some day 😇

[@UltimatePerfection]

Aren't Windows drivers supposed to work on ReactOS? If so can't he just install nvidia or ATi drivers?

[@stellated]

@@UltimatePerfection It is supposed to run any and every Windows driver (within whatever driver model they chose to support) eventually but right now it's still pretty incomplete and buggy.

[@Lanausse]

So far. I Feel like ReactOS has been more suited towards VM uses instead of real hardware use

[@misaalanshori]

Probably because a lot of the development was done on virtual machines so it works better on VMs

[@juappdev]

Can't agree with that. Every time I've managed to boot ReactOS in VMWare I've had a BSOD. And it hardly supports any vmware virtual hardware OOTB.

[@orektez]

@@juappdev I even had some issues with vbox till i used an earlier version, also tested it with vpc2007 and that didn't give me any issues, i think it's closer to win2k then xp, so hardware from 01-06 might be better, even emulated hardware..

[@Lanausse]

@@juappdev it works much better on VirtualBox

[@juappdev]

@@Lanausse yes, thats even worse. It's not designed to work on anything but virtualbox!

[@androkon6920]

The Windows Experience™, but now open-source! Jokes aside tho, massive respect to the React team

[@nicholashoi3155]

The Weed lord is back again with another video

[@fart1234.]

Lol

[@MarksBigOlHam]

With a better middle finger gimmick because it couldn't find a drive to install onto. XD

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@igemily]

No, its actually the Weed King AND Lord.

[@nicholashoi3155]

@@charlie4christ536 no one cares

[@Randgalf]

At least you've got to give it props for getting past loading hal.dll during installation! That's more that most older Windowses will manage.

[@Nunya58294]

That damn dll was the death of me

[@guilherm502]

WTF What a coincidence, yesterday, I downloaded ReactOS to see how it was doing, and opened your channel to see if you had any videos and KZbin didn't notify me (you had); today you post this...

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@noah_will]

@@charlie4christ536 What?

[@raven4k998]

well if you wanted to be notified about new videos you have to click the bell icon and select all it's just that easy to get notified on new video releases as they come out

[@Remigrator]

That's what Edward Snowden warned you about 😉

[@raven4k998]

@@Remigrator it's ok Edward is in jail now so it's all good

[@tfilefan]

This is exactly same "nightmare" of early Windows NT installation. NT3.x had very limited hardware support and every minor configuration mismatch give us BSOD or just completely locked up

[@kathrynradonich3982]

Recently built an NT 3.51 computer and omg the hardware has to be so specific to get it working but when it’s up it’s good.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Means they are on the right track :)

[@blakestone75]

How DID windows ever catch on? I mean considering how aweful it was, I'm surprised macos didn't run away with it all. Lol.

[@lepidotos]

Hey, if they're on par with a paid for professional product in the alpha stage nearly for free and entirely based on volunteer contributions, that's not too bad.

[@tfilefan]

@@kathrynradonich3982 It cannot detect any USB device and even does not have PnP support.

[@coatlessali]

> "We're using a USB." Oh no......

[@VeraTR909]

How it feels like for my parents to use the new oven.

[@flotfriedmeisenmann768]

This is making me laugh so hard lol

[@VeraTR909]

"It hates USB with a passion" cracked me up ;P

[@tj71520]

Same deal with Amiga research os

[@sadmac356]

I have been waiting for reactos shenanigans!

[@victorfigueroa9385]

"If it's gonna break, it's gotta break fast" - Druaga1 Btw, hackintosh with that 2600k and gt420 ?

[@ScienceAlliance]

lol

[@victorfigueroa9385]

@@ScienceAlliance it's the perfect hardware for one I just know it!

[@tfilefan]

kind of boring

[@brotalnia]

oh my god it finally happened the holy trilogy of react os install videos is complete

[@JohnnyD]

By completel accident I was able to get the sound working!!!

[@2K-Tan]

Awesome Video man, made sure I ripped a fat one before the start haha, Been curious about this OS forever and you did NOT disappoint haha, Nice i7 2700 setup too! Still rocking a i5 4670K with GTX 970 myself, thanks for that comment on my vid all those years back too haha. Keep it up!

[@YTSBryce]

Took FOREVER to find your channel again, I deleted my watch history at some point and KZbin stopped recommending you to me. Hopefully you’re doing okay! Unfortunately it looks like you stopped uploading.

[@CoolerQ]

Anyone else screaming "legacy USB" at him when it was "frozen"?

[@Ginto_O]

No

[@reperak2107]

@@Ginto_O Damn tell em how it is

[@AndreDeLimburger]

Legacy USB? Oh come on! Use a real PS/2 keyboard!! That works for sure!

[@RREDesigns]

I couldn't install Win7 with USB keyboard no matter what I tried. I guess for NT it has to be PS/2 or it just won't work.

[@bundo13]

Hah, I was about to say use a PS/2 keyboard! The benefits of running a Linux distro that won't stop you from breaking it... I thought of that immediately because I have to roll my own initrd image and if I don't include the USB modules I can't do anything when it breaks and dumps me into the shell pre-init. Pro-tip: if you use a cheesy gamer type keyboard with backlighting, it makes it obvious because the backlight doesn't turn on until the driver loads and does it, at least on the two I have.

[@hihi217]

hey smoookers!

[@nicholashoi3155]

Druaga1 here

[@Jesse88789]

Today, we’re gonna install (insert a os here) on (some computer) With an SSD

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@dbp-wv1hs]

@@Jesse88789

[@tomascaetano5011]

@@Jesse88789 you forgot "With an SSD"

[@CodyKloepfer]

27:22 until 27:40ish had me laughing so hard at 1:45 AM. Thanks for the much needed laughter, Druaga! It’s nice to have you back!

[@hermitxIII]

Didn't expect a react os video so soon, but I was looking forward to it.

[@humanbeing_]

OMFG this is the Druaga1 video we've all been missing! I'm dead laughing already and I'm not even halfway through the video yet LMFAO! The videos just aren't the game when things go right in a Druaga1 video. Sorry Ian, I know it must be GENUINELY frustrating but holy shit do I still love these videos. Seriously, even if you only have the energy (or time) to do these a few times a year = totally fucking worth it lol! And it's not just what happens in the videos, but your comedic timing with your editing is just so damn funny & thoroughly enjoyed to watch. Whenever I would have a shitty day I could always put on one of your videos and immediately be in a good mood again. They never get old. Ever. I've SERIOUSLY watched some of the videos like installing Windows 95 in a bar of soap over 100 times. No... Seriously. I used to watch that video almost once a day for a year. So in reality I've seen many of your videos several hundred times. You're the best man. Congrats on 100k btw!

[@FabTheZen]

I have a feeling that _every copy of ReactOS is personalized..._

[@sharoyveduchi]

Technically there's a version made every day (automatically made daily builds), so yeah that could be true!

[@bootmii98]

And if it isn't, you can do so, if you know your way around [insert make-chain here]

[@UltimatePerfection]

Notto disu shitte agen.

[@thatpersonwithamlpiconwhos2861]

The windows apparition

[@elihillman8758]

It is. The errors in every install are different.

[@user-le8ul4nr5t]

I'll be waiting for the next ReactOS video on version 0.4.20, hopefully within the next 3-4 years.

[@jetjazz05]

47:00 - I don't know man lol, there were plenty of times owning windows xp felt just like this. Maybe 95 or 98 even more so... but xp still had it's share of soul crushing issues to resolve on a fairly regular basis.

[@Remigrator]

"why does this work? What did I change?" ... "Oh yeah right, I took a piss!" 🤣

[@orkhepaj]

so a total unreliable inconsistent mess os , i totally see an use for that

[@klingoncowboy4]

43:51 every time someone mentions Deus Ex it immediately gets reinstalled... in this case onto ReactOS

[@george-broughton]

AHCI mode is basically the native mode SATA operates in. IDE mode, makes the SATA controller say "hurr durr i'm an IDE controller, with IDE drives present in master/slave config lookat me wew" So for operating systems that were made before SATA was a thing, that have no compatibility for SATA will usually work if you switch it to IDE mode because it emulates an IDE controller. AHCI does other stuff too. Like allows you to program the drive's firmware, which on IDE drives was done in a proprietary fashion and varied from vendor to vendor.

[@hanro50]

Wine translates Windows sys calls into calls the Linux kernel can understand, it also emulates some Windows specific bugs that aren't present on Linux, but Windows programs have come to expect. Wine also translates directX calls into OpenGL calls or Vulkan calls depending on if you're using DXVK. So in a sense the Linux kernel is doing most, if not all of the heavy lifting. That being said Wine only supports userland windows libraries. Stuff like drivers are just flat out not supported in Wine. Not that it needs to mind you. Nvidia, AMD and Intel all officially supports Linux with dedicated drivers. So in a sense the Linux kernel is doing most of the heavy lifting behind the scenes in terms of actually running the games. ReactOS is built from the ground up. This means most of wine's efforts to translate windows sys calls into Linux ones are thrown out the window. ReactOS is meant more for software that needs to reach down into kernel space to work effectively. The thing is that the documentation MS provides on this aspect of Windows is just flat out outdated, incorrect, poorly written or non existent. The wine team has corrected official MS Windows kernel documentation before I believe. Since even if they don't support software that reaches down into the kernel. They still need to handle every kernel based call a piece of software can make.

[@georgerockwell-z3c]

Come back weed lord, we miss you :'(

[@blakecasimir]

You got quite far this time, which is great, but it would be worth trying to do more work installing the Radeon driver than you did. I would have tried manually updating the "VGA adapter" and seeing if pointing it to the unpacked catalyst driver folder will do anything.

[@Yngdady]

Your video keeps me sane while I try to figure out my new pc issue

[@explorer9049]

ahci is the specification and the native mode of serial AT attachment (SATA)

[@guilherm502]

Also, this Screenshot Utility in ReactOS is pretty neat, it would be even better if you could set it to automatically save the .BMP file with an automatically generated name; then it would work exactly like the current Ubuntu's Screenshot utility

[@TradieTrev]

Thanks for your effortless timely installs! I'm heaps grateful you've paid the time.

[@min_nari]

what a day to have my plant-based non-mechanical storage fix

[@ypoora1]

To use the nVidia driver, you can try pointing that device manager driver updater at the extracted C:\NVIDIA folder. The bare driver files should be in there and it might pick them up.

[@aaront8]

AHCI is basically just advanced features for hard drives. If you enable it, you're able to hot swap drives etc. Using AHCI will install the drivers automatically and allow for new OS to be installed. I'm sure it does way more than this on the host controller, but for what you do - this probably would make sense since you're installing older OS/uncommon OS to see issues when you enable/disable that in the BIOS.

[@sugaryhull9688]

The team has also recently hired a fulltime dev

[@ansonx10]

Ooh. Fun things may happen. I sure hope this OS becomes usable. The problem FOSS has is that people don’t like to do extremely difficult programming tasks for free.

[@seebaastian]

@@ansonx10 I would do it if I had the required skills. Sadly I'm a newbee into OS architectures and OS development ;(

[@TomasGregovich]

I'm so fucking happy you started uploading again man.

[@Faisal-wf5hk]

wtf you just made me watch a 1hr video without me getting bored amazing

[@mkmason4641]

Wow it's been years I seen this channel again

[@reki353]

What if the Nvidia installer failed because the system root was C:\ReactOS instead of the normal C:\windows. You could have also went through task manager and tried to install the Nvidia drivers by pointing it to the inf file instead of using Nvidia installer.

[@reki353]

Also if you go the route where you point it to the inf file, you can avoid problems where the control panels and stuff can't install or causes problems, however the driver would have worked fine.

[@reki353]

I mean, for future reference, if pointing towards it doesn't work....

[@silentantagonist2333]

Wake me up! Wake me up inside! Can't wake up! Wake me up inside! Save me! Call my name... Oh wait Druaga uploaded.. Woo!

[@mercuryoak2]

React o.s i remember when you did it. I downloaded it and tried running it but then it never ran or anything. I hope react OS succeeds into something good.

[@Althemor]

I'm at 33:40 right now, so maybe this still comes up, but in your position I would consider imaging the drive when sufficient progress has been made. I don't _know_ how long stuff takes in real time here. It seemed pretty slow, and rather than installing from the CD again, it might be faster to use an image.

[@Mayala285]

its a 2020 miracle, im an hour late but very pleased already. good to see you again my boi

[@monkeyman767]

It's nice to know people still like Druaga videos so much that there's already 18k views on this only a day after it went up.

[@lambda2657]

I love your videos Druaga, thanks for making a video on ReactOS

[@macintosh512k2]

Been a long time since I watched your first videos, I still love the old but at the same time calming mic.

[@yusufozgur262]

I was actually interested in seeing this video instead of just clicking because it's Druaga making the video.

[@ianbrown9547]

same bro lmao

[@kryskarr23]

I’m both.

[@gp3328]

@@kryskarr23 u

[@fart1234.]

@@kryskarr23 u

[@fart1234.]

@@kryskarr23 u

[@veda-powered]

the reason that wine was working better at the end was because of Linux. Linux had the drivers for the GPU, and wine was instead of doing software emulation of DirectX like on ReactOS, it was actually translating the DirectX calls to OpenGL (or possibly even Vulkan I'm not too sure). This is also why the DirectX mode was the same as software rendering, because it was being rendered by wine in software, even though the game thought it was using DirectX to talk to a real GPU.

[@Katllan]

My man is back, what a relief.

[@MrBeiragua]

Your ReactOs videos are what made me aware of it.

[@thesilvercreepers]

Didn't know react was still being updated lmao

[@Nunya58294]

Lol that project looks so dead. It's just basically Windows with a different name slapped on it. And has the old Windows 2000/XP look

[@VxVTactics]

@@Nunya58294 yeah... Uh that's the entire point of reactOS. To be "basically windows", but open source.

[@otte385]

@@Nunya58294 It's not dead, look at their github page. github.com/reactos/reactos

[@Onkoe]

@@Nunya58294 the point is to have an open-source replacement for windows; this could be especially useful in the near-future for companies and governments that need a patched version of windows xp that works on modern hardware :)

[@fear416]

@@Nunya58294 Basically Windows, but clean-room engineered from scratch. It's actually scary what they did manage to do.

[@Anamnesia]

I stayed to the end. I'm glad you went back to the i7 MoBo, because I was thinking that it looked like it wanted to work, but that you found out later the setup needed on older MoBo's...

[@RedmondMonk]

glad you are alive. we missed you.

[@Gadgetman1989]

Welcome back dude, I always love your content

[@crylune]

If you recently upgraded your PC, I recommend editing the About section of your channel, really curious to know what you got

[@matthewlopez1706]

He somehow just popped up again after a while. Neat lol

[@ryand2759]

I usually put the main boot device on the first SATA port. In most cases I'm sure it doesn't matter, but I do it anyway.

[@nsawatchlistbait289]

Can you do a video on ReactOS 0.4.14? Also, ver 0.4.15 is going to be a stable release

[@gameradachi6347]

lIke another alpha release or like actual beta?

[@andrive]

Update your KZbin about page, it still has the old setup specs there

[@ScienceAlliance]

I guess

[@ScienceAlliance]

Tru ngl

[@LastofAvari]

By the time it will be 100% compatible with Win XP or 7 we will have Windows 20 or something ;)

[@photopuppet]

This was hilarious, thank you! 😀 I'm not sure ReactOS will ever be ready from your experience...

[@UberStarFkr]

All anyone has to do is look at how many years it's been stuck in alpha. I give props to the reactos team for the idea but it's been literally years and it's still hardly usable.

[@terminal-vl3rj]

27:51 why does the money for nothing video display for a second?

[@stranger.granger]

They should get their hands on that leaked Windows XP source code, pick it apart and add to ReactOS. ;) (off the record of course)

[@butre.]

I dailied reactos for close to a month probably about 10 or 12 years ago. been watching the project ever since. I'd love for it to catch up to windows someday. reactOS is a hell of an undertaking so I won't hold my breath, but when it happens it'll be great

[@friend8124]

I'm so glad i'm not the only one that after years of fixing PC's I still don't know what the difference between IDE and AHCI is. And all we have to do is probabaly a 30 second google search. I go by the logic "if one setting doesn't work, must be the other"

[@spudd86]

Some vendor supplied graphics card drivers are known to work, there's a wiki page with a list, it also tells you how to check if it's actually using the vendor's OpenGL implementation instead of Mesa's software renderer reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards Mesa is also the OpenGL implementation used on Linux for free graphics drivers, even for hardware acceleration. It's also possible the ReactOS supplied sound driver for the onboard sound would work as most of those are very similar hardware and documented.

[@fatguywitholdcomputers9351]

What is that dual-cpu setup I spy in that cardboard box @ 5:26 ?

[@seancondon5572]

28:00 - need to wipe and reformat? 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[a-z] count=65536' that'll wipe the first 32MB of the disk, including formatting, boot sectors, boot loaders, and partition tables.

[@Evansmustard]

Id definitely have a use for this in the future assuming it has better compatibility with Windows 98-XP games than Windows 10 or whatever 10's successor will be. I wonder if there are ReactOS users that use the OS to run old solftware not compatible with modern PC's? Just last year I saw an alignment machine being used at a tire shop that ran Windows 95!

[@killervacuum]

hey smoker thanks for uploading another great video!

[@batlin]

I tried it in college back in 2004 or so and decided it wasn't really ready for primetime... Cool to see they're still working on it tho.

[@LaskyLabs]

I can't wait to see the day that React OS hits beta, I will be so excited. It's amazing to watch it develop, and I can't wait to see it happen.

[@shriramthirumavalavan6115]

I don't know whether we will be alive by that day.

[@LaskyLabs]

@@shriramthirumavalavan6115 hold out hope right? I'm sure we'll make it.

[@sylvoen]

hey dude hope you're doing alright

[@Stjaernljus]

Changing SATA port works because many older motherboards had third party SATA controllers for extra SATA ports. And those extra controllers were often not as well supported.

[@KaraokeDuov2]

Might also see if there is a way to get any Vulcan support for it.

[@Madman-8287]

If you didn't know already windows xp themes both official and unofficial can be used on reactos with no modifications

[@jpjude68]

downloading drivers?... i wonder if having the original drivers CD for the hardware would have a better chance

[@brentpolk2431]

Somebody has to do the work and I appreciate your efforts!

[@bs_blackscout]

He lives!

[@jbritain]

43:14 it mentions mesa which means it is running GL in software and not using the GPU

[@richardwoodurff9186]

I love how this video goes downhill so quickly, LOL I love your videos Druga!! Keep them up!

[@AutumnWind92]

That video is actual representation of 2020

[@Lethaltail]

I just imagined a ReactOS stress test system not unlike the one Microsoft used for their versions of NT. That alone would need intense work and would detract from the already slow progress on ReactOS itself. Thanks, imagination.

[@Lethaltail]

The result of the system for Microsoft was an ever changing list of known issues with the last night's build of NT that devs would pick and choose which ones to fix that day for that night's compiled build. Once the build compiled, it would be fed into a massive stress testing network of machines and devices in order to update the buglist. With ReactOS, the community is basically that same stress test matrix. Windows Insider Program before it's time. lol

[@burgertim7878]

I appreciate the effort they put into it over these last 22 years, but this is ever going to get finished, or do we have to wait another twenty years to get a somewhat stable version?

[@BobAg_]

Regarding the copyright question you asked: no, because you can't copyright a look and feel. That was the legal determination when Apple tried to sue Microsoft. So, as long as they're not using ANY proprietary Microsoft code, they can make a complete like-for-like clone and it's not stealing, because they did all the coding from scratch. Back in the day the same strategy allowed PC manufacturers to copy the original IBM PC, which is why PC's took off and we all had a bunch of IBM-compatible machines. Because IBM effectively threw together off-the-shelf parts, anyone could do the same - as long as they didn't use the patented IBM ROM code.

[@arawndavies8525]

HEY SMOKERS! Just watched an older ReactOS video last night and now this? noice

[@xpkareem]

If I ever win the big lottery ReactOS team is getting like $10 million. I'm so sick of Windows 10 I just want an XP like os that runs modern windows programs with modern hardware. A boy can dream...

[@crylune]

As unlikely as you winning the lottery is - yeah right, you'll probably do like all lottery winning idiots do and waste their money on some business startup or spend it all on dumb shit. Also, ReactOS team would probably take another few decades even with the money you give them.

[@replikvltyoutube3727]

Smoker, if I recall correctly there was a USB boot fix from version 14 or something. I would ebcourage you to try the nightly builds when (and if) you try next time.

[@joeshmoe000]

(corrected - you did try it later) If a video driver doesn't work, you should ALWAYS try extracting the exe with 7-zip and then installing with device manager. Sometimes that works.

[@JessicaFEREM]

the way wine works on linux, it converts DirectX mostly to Vulkan (VK) but there's also directx for opengl as well, mostly for older versions. wine converts the calls that windows uses into linux friendly ones, so it is hardware accelerated. the difference is that reactOS is doing it all natively and pretending to be a real windows computer using non-microsoft code. it's really impressive to consider a few guys could get this running *at all* considering windows requires hundreds of people tons of money to get it running, and reactOS is being coded by a few peeps in their off-hours for little to no money.

[@markitzero12]

@druaga1 for the model M issue some mainboards don't like to power it because some of the model m require more then 500mA. My Ryzen gaming rig with my Model M sometimes I have to do a soft reboot for the board to power and detect the keyboard

[@AiOinc1]

High speed scrubbing through the video I see a stupid amount of full screen blue. Something tells me that the answer is still a resounding no.