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ylai@lemmy.mlM to Steam Deck@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck

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ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Shown Running On Valve's Steam Deck

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  • WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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    ReactOS remains my biggest “But why?” tech story for the past ~20 years.

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      Linux doesn’t work for most people, and Windows and Mac are corporate. I hope ReactOS succeeds.

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        ReactOS is funded by the state Duma of the Russian Federation. If you want the OS to succeed you can hope for the end of the Ukrainian invasion.

        Otherwise the OS can fucking die a slow miserable death along with the Russians in Ukraine for all we care.

        Sources:

        https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14899507

        Russian State Ministry of Communications

        “ReactOS as a second OS in Russian government’s software freedom effort | ReactOS Project”. www.reactos.org

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            The Foundation as a whole existed in two tiers, with the administrative body based in Russia and regional branches that handled donations in their respective regions.

            The ReactOS Foundation was established on June 5, 2002 and was based in Saransk, Russia.

            I didn’t understand your point so I thought to reiterate with proof that ReactOS is Russian state sponsored and continues to be.

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                Mr. Butts, you sweet sweet summer child.

          • WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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            First thing about ReactOS that makes any kind of sense.

            Honestly they should have just gone the North Korea route and contributed upstream to WINE.

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              North Korea did what?

              • WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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                I meant roll their own Linux distro, and if they want Windows compatibility, they can go tweak WINE.

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          It’s russian? Then fuck this os

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        I mean I wish them the best, but they’ve been chasing Windows for decades, at what point exactly is this “success” to be measured?

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          When they’re successful, it will be a good day. For now, it’s all about having fun with the journey.

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        Surely contributing to Wine and running their windows apps on Linux would yield better faster results than re-implement Windows from scratch. I don’t quite see who the target audience is

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        If it does, a corporation will buy and use it

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          It’s FOSS. I’d imagine people would fork it, because fuck it

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        • WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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          No, they won’t.

          The value in Windows is no longer Windows. The cost of Windows license to a business is trivial. It’s all the associated services. Office, teams, SharePoint, active directory, Outlook. And the ecosystems and support that exist for them all.

          Any realistic business that tries to be competitive by not paying for Windows licenses and instead buying this, is utterly delusional.

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        I agree with you, an open-source OS that could run anything Windows-related would probably be preferable for the average user over switching to something completely new and hoping you can find a workaround or compatibility layer, simply because it’s a lot more work. If ReactOS had been around and on par with Linux 20 years ago (oh gosh I’m that old…), I probably would’ve gone with that on the old PowerBook my grandma gave me rather than Ubuntu, just because I’d been using Windows. At the time, installing Ubuntu was, while the easiest way to get Linux, still not very easy, and I did bork the first hard drive. That said, I don’t regret my decision, and I probably wouldn’t ever go back to Windows, but I might still give ReactOS a try!

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      I hate these types of reactions.

      The answer to that dead ass question is always “why not?”

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      There’s a lot of WinXP software out there that people bought licenses for and still want to use.

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        The BEST Need for Speed EVER!!!

        • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml
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          Shift works fine on modern windows and proton what are you talking about.

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        Nothing worng with running XP in a VM or network isolated machine. Stability will be more important to these people than anything.

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      embedded probably

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    As part of the effort for enabling UEFI support with ReactOS, an open-source operating system re-implementing binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows, a development build of ReactOS is up and running on Valve’s Steam Deck handheld game console.

    While not suitable for any serious gaming yet with the binary compatibility of ReactOS for modern Windows games still being rather limited especially among Windows device driver support, in early experimental form this open-source OS is up and running on the Steam Deck!

    For months there has been work on UEFI support for ReactOS that can be tracked via this pull request.

    The ReactOS crew shared that with the work-in-progress code one of the developers is able to run ReactOS on the AMD-powered Steam Deck: Behind the scenes, @The_DarkFire__ has been working on bringing UEFI support to #ReactOS!And here’s a surprise by him: With a PR, ReactOS running in Steam Deck!!

    !Work in progress.For more information, see here: https://t.co/woLpr8PY6U pic.twitter.com/1DKQKJUXG2— ReactOS (@reactos) September 13, 2023 While it may not be entirely practical at this stage given the limited device driver and modern game binary compatibility with ReactOS, it’s an interesting milestone nevertheless for this open-source project.


    The original article contains 192 words, the summary contains 193 words. Saved -1%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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      you had one job

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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      TLDR it’s still 32bit, check back next year

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    Isn’t it still stuck in 32bit land?

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    It’s nice to see that ReactOS continues their slow but steady progress.
    I’ve actually more than once helped test versions of ReactOS for research IT at the university where I work, since for some reason even modern equipment sometimes comes with Windows XP -era software - alongside requirements for network access.

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    For any practical purposes or just to see if it was possible?

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      Likely if possible. ReactOS is still fundamentally alpha software

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