ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life

9 days ago by ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to c/opensource

MoreZombies 46 points 9 days ago

"Details on X".

urgh, I don't want to read anything on Twitter.

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Mensh123 18 points 9 days ago

Good thing the details aren't actually details. It's a super short Tweet by ReactOS with celebratory screenshot and the acknowledgement that it still has bugs and crashes you wouldn't get on actual Windows. That's genuinely it.

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MoreZombies 1 point 7 days ago

Appreciate you

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doubtingtammy 5 points 8 days ago

Replace "x" with "xcancel" in the url, and it usually works (slightly better than the raw cesspit)

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MoreZombies 9 points 8 days ago

oh I get I can, I just think Twitter is horrid and I don't even want to acknowledge it in that form lol

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Semi_Hemi_Demigod 38 points 9 days ago

This will be an essential part of industry quite soon. It all runs on old versions of windows and having a compatible, supported runtime will be invaluable.

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yogthos 12 points 9 days ago

Might also pave a path towards governments moving off windows if it can run existing software they use.

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HiddenLayer555 2 points 8 days ago

Wine would still be better though, especially if they have the source code. Can be used like a dependency to produce a Linux compatible package like how Java applications either bundle or depend on a JVM in the package manager.

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yogthos 2 points 8 days ago

yeah that's true

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umbrella 33 points 9 days ago

https://loss32.org/

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yogthos 9 points 9 days ago

amazing

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wizzor 4 points 8 days ago

What a time to be alive.

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J3N5T4R 24 points 9 days ago

It's good to be back in 1998 again.

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HieroProtagonist 1 point 8 days ago

I honestly would love it...

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pineapple 7 points 8 days ago

Wait I don't mean to put any shade on these developers but don't we already have Linux and wine, why would you try to copy windows?

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yogthos 16 points 8 days ago

Actually, ReactOS and Wine have historically worked together and share significant technical overlap in the goal of reimplementing the Windows API, though they have different approaches and end goals. They're separate projects now, but a lot of work in wine happened thanks to ReactOS.

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Swedneck 10 points 8 days ago

because a fucking depressing amount of computers are still running old windows versions for compatibility reasons, and it would be really nice if we could eventually replace it with something that isn't a leaking sieve in terms of security.

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HieroProtagonist 6 points 8 days ago