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Windows has never been open source… But there is a project aimed at fixing that. How close can it come to the real Windows experience?
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I tried installing it once, and it immediately bluescreened. Overall pretty convincing windows experience, 9/10
ikr, while it targets server 2003 it reaches vista very well
That's the joke
I remember the claims with Windows XP were it would NEVER blue screen... Because the default setting was it would just restart the computer. If you turned that off you'd still get blue screens once in a while (especially before SP1). They could have just changed the colour to red and their argument would have remained valid.
I tried installing it on an Inspiron from the early 2000s era, the disc check caused it to crash...
Lol bsod right away
"That's incorrect even on Windows"
Killed me
I've messed around with this OS many times installing it on VMs and various random PCs. Most of them crashed a lot or didn't run at all, but there was ONE ancient Pentium III workstation that ran it FLAWLESSLY!
The Pentium must be protected
That Pentium is maybe the key to time machine development
Protect the pentium at all cost!
"You just want to reboot for no reason?" I would say that's a genuine Windoze experience, except it's offering you the option to not reboot...
Remember, this is supposed to be an older version of Windows. Back then, you actually had a choice about many things that modern Windows just makes you do.
Early windows NT versions Still had the ability to do the old.3.1 installer reboot in p!ace just rebooting. By 2003 that legacy code was retired.
Linus: "How have I never heard of this?"
Me: "Don't..."
Linus: "And how have you not heard of our sponsor?!?"
Me: "Dammit Linus."
Blze001 honestly laughed like mad when he said it
@@nicholaspearce3907 he killed me man!!
@@asrarbaksh3500 he sent me into the afterlife
me: *skips the whole ad thing*
Blze001 . He's has gotten better at the segue
"It's not working! It keeps BSODding!"
"Dude! Remember when we said we reverse-engineered Windows? Well, we meant it!"
This seems to be a very popular joke in the comment section.
It's obviously way worse than windows actually ever was though, and [Text removed to stop repetitive replies and random insults based on misinterpretation.]
@@Aeroxima lol, not in my experience. i sawe the BSOD every day back in the 95 98 windows era. seems legit to me. feels authentic.
@@spicydeath82 Go back in time and tell yourself to format and reinstall then. It shouldn't be doing that, most weren't.
Yeah, but you're misrepresenting the project.
Windows Server 2003 is a windows NT derivative. (as are all modern versions of windows from XP onwards)
I used to dual-Boot windows 95 and windows NT4.0
You know how often windows 95 would crash (same hardware keep in mind)?
Minimum once a day. Often more than that.
You know how often I crashed NT4.0 on that same hardware?
Never.
Not a single time.
At all.
Just because it says 'windows' you have to remember that this is not the same operating system.
The NT OS and the 9x OS are basically completely unrelated systems (part of why games didn't work so well on NT until XP tried to merge everything together)
They have overlapping SDK libraries, but even these are implemented differently internally. (They expose the same library calls with the same interface, which is why the same programs can usually run on both)
NT - > Extremely stable
9x - > Crashtastic.
So, in any event, if this is supposed to be windows Server 2003 then it's essentially the business counterpart to windows XP (aka NT5.1)
It's not nessesarily as solid as NT4.0 was, but it should be pretty stable.
Having a clone of it crash constantly suggests they have a LOT of work to do...
@@KuraIthys Good points, just have to chime in again, I must have been the only person that had a household of working Win95/98 computers.
Seriously did not crash that often, certainly not daily. With old hardware or VMs, somebody could just go run these things and see how often they crash, I honestly think people are exaggerating.
(Of course it will depend on your setup, and older parts may not be what they used to be while VMs are never 100% perfect themselves.)
I followed react from the start, if my memory serves right they suffered badly with a forced code audit which caused the project to stall heavily, and unfortunately I think they find it hard to get the support, time, money and developers. The vision is there, and I for one find it impressive that they have gotten this far. Once this thing gets into beta and can be used as a daily then things will pick up. I applaud them and have massive respect to do what no one else has done. Can you imagine small businesses using this instead of windows and saving a truck load on licences?
@hvysomething they are already sharing compatible code. I hope they get more support in the future, as it has great potential!
Late to the game here, but small businesses will never rely on something that has no support resources. This isn't just help-desk, it's also applications, drivers, server and deployment technologies... hell, good luck getting Zoom or Teams to run on this.
Forming business partnerships these days also relies heavily on being able to adequately demonstrate that you follow industry best-practices when it comes to information security. These are extremely tough bars to pass in many cases unless you are actually following standards, the vetting process can and will kill your deals.
Using an obscure OS that isn't even Linux is just asking for trouble, I'm sorry to say. I've worked at a Linux shop and anytime customer-facing staff were using Linux, there was a price paid in terms of compatibility and efficiency. This makes you non-competitive.
@@gmitchellfamily I unfortunately have to agree. Just because ReactOS is free doesn’t mean people will flock to it instead of using regular windows. I like being able to use my Windows computer as is and get updates and run applications without thinking too much about it. There is no way to do that unless you have a billion dollar company backing the development of the operating system
@@lemagicalpotato8318 wrong. you think too much aboutit, as soon as your windows crashes and/pr is destroyed beyond repair by a fucked up update. or when your settings reset after every shutdown. or when the software you want to use constantly locks up
Hooked into AMD.. no wonder its garbage
This feels like when you'd show someone how cool Linux is, like, 12 years ago. All the while standing right behind them sweating bullets
They are not comparable. ReactOS is useless for any practical application. I started using Linux 24 years ago and - unlike ReactOS - it was stable and usable albeit more as a server OS because the desktop part wasn't exactly friendly (manual configuration of XFree86, having to enter your RAMDAC and so on) nor capable (no video codecs, limited intra-desktop integration, sketchy hardware support).
“Please don’t crash, please don’t crash~”
@@JanuszKrysztofiak exactly. I started using Linux in 2001 and it was rock solid. ReactOS isn't actually that much younger than Linux, but it's development for some reason never picked up momentum. The always overpromised and never delivered. The exact opposite of Linux.
@@jochannan7379 i think they are pretty close in how linux is also marketed by those annoying linux stans as "flawless, smooth experience, beginner friendly, never crashes, can even run games" and in reality it's just a sketchy system with a windows/macos ripoff of a UI. Like, yeah, windows sucks, and macos is not meant for serious gaming, but there are no better alternative, Linux is not one of them and I doubt it will ever be, with its open-source approach.
@@ytrav Debian GNU/Linux has been my daily driver since 2001, and I couldn't be happier. Sure. I am not a gamer, so I really cannot speak to that. Regarding the UI, there are so many different choices available; nobody forces you to choice "a windows/macos ripoff", if it is not to your liking. I wouldn't say that GNU/Linux is a "flawless, smooth experience, beginner friendly and never crashes". I had to do some serious learning to master it. But I could. On Windows, trying to pin down the cause of an error is usually fumbling in the dark, rebooting and hoping it goes magically away, or even spending hours reinstalling the whole system. On GNU/Linux, the output of dmesg or journalctl my often look cryptic, but it allows you to identify, understand and fix the actual error rather than fumbling in the dark. So, GNU/Linux certainly isn't for you if you are unwilling to learn and expect everything to always just work™, but it is definitely for you if you want an open, flexible and rock-solid system. ReactOS unfortunately is almost none of these things. On ReactOS, errors seem just as random as on Windows, and the system goes no five minutes without crashing. That's a very different experience.
“That’s incorrect even on windows”
Linus is gonna have a gravestone say "This life was brought to you by..."
*GLASS WIRE*
Freshbooks
Nah, it would say LTTstore dot com
@@andreaspatsalides1914 Can't forget about the etching outline of a waterbottle or him in his undies.
*RAID 0: SHADOW COPY*
ReactOS and Wine cross-contribute code, I believe. So as Wine improves, so does ReactOS and vice versa.
I feel like wine and proton make reactos obsolete
@@llynxfyremusic Did you somehow miss the part where they said that ReactOS contributes code to Wine? Reverse engineering efforts are very important to stuff like Proton and Wine
Linus: "It's just... You wouldn't actually *use* it."
Anthony's Mouth: "... no...."
Anthony's Eyes: "But I really really want to..."
Anthony's Soul: " *WE. MUST. HAVE. IT.* "
I love Anthony so much ^^
@@nieks.7326 same
0:22 Linus "How have you never heard of freshbooks"
Me: I have in almost all of your other videos
g l a s s w i r e
Then why haven’t you started using it?
@@madfun13 Don't find the use and don't have the money
@@madfun13 Because MS DOS is better.
@@rakly3473 true
1996: I have a great idea! Let's make a free version of Windows!!!
1997: We really need to fix that scrollbar
2020: We really need to fix that scrollbar
1996 : I have a great idea! Let's reverse engineer Windows.
1999 : Oh shit... They are dropping Dos... but they emulate it.
2001 : Now what ? NT kernel ? Let's do this over again.
2003 : Ok we have to pay the rent... Let's get jobs guys.
2007 : Yet another version of windows... What did they change this time ? (basically few things changed at a low level in windows from that point on)
2020 : Fixing the scrollbar and doing my job during my vacation time or playing with the kids... ?! Hell ! The scrollbar can wait.
@@koulkrith Since 1998 they build it to be a clone of Windows NT.
in 1996 they literally called this project "free win 95" lmao... it's like these kids were trying so hard to not pay for windows
@@harshnemesis Yeah they renamed it 98 to ReactOS.
@@harshnemesis interject: speech, not beer
:^)))
When Anthony says “Sure, let’s figure it out!” Whilst really thinking “Can I just do it?!” 😂
When Anthony forgets to set a restore point to a VM before Linus touches it.
Indeed 😅
"So you mean to tell me they have been at this 24 years and its still alpha"
Wait till he hears about GNU Hurd.
nah, GNU Herd has "only" been under development since 1990, much younger! /s
wait till he hears about yandere dev
@@SoundSpeeding 1990 is more than 24 years ago grandpa
chrisserung 30 years ago, still in development, wow,
GNU Hurd
Been following ReactOS since around the Windows Vista days, it's an interesting OS, totally unusable and unstable for day to day use but I managed to game with Dungeon Keeper and Diablo 2 years, been a while since i give it a spin in Vbox.
I'd scour FTP servers when I was like 12 and use the old Microsoft vm software (been so long I forgot the name of it) to run a bunch of old windows betas and at some point I discovered reactos. I think some of those issues are dependent on virtual box guest additions imo.
Better off using FreeDOS
so, its the true Windows ME and 98 experience then?
You can run DK fine with GoG and Dosbox
@@theatlastech8792 better off using Linux and WINE and or Proton
Anthony is my favorite. " even for Windows that is wrong" 🤣
I love it when old ltt videos pop up at the top of the recommendations, but hate this is already four years old
Anthony-shows linus awesome reverse engineered windows os.
Linus- "I FOUND THE SOLITAIRE"
I was disappointed by no Pinball :(
That's about all that works, though.
Why was solitaire removed from Windows 10?
@nou AH! So just like all smart devices then.
@@bk-sl8ee So that Microsoft could feed you ads when you play Microsoft Solitaire Collection as a replacement.
5:00
Anthony: 'Do you wanna know how we do this?'
Linus: 'Can I try and figure it out?'
Anthony: 'SuRe, LeTs FigURe iT OuT'
Anthony's brain: This is going to be fun
I hate Anthony
yes I watched the video
@@jonixd4919 Why? He's one of my favorite on the team personally
@@teddygoboom1 yeah, from what I've seen he seems like he knows the most shit compared to the rest of the team.
he is as smart as he weights. so im thinking 130kg to 130 iq
Some time ago there was an OS called BeOS (discontinued), later on continued under the name Haiku: try that. ;)
Was that the one once known as "Lindows"?
I remember that; it even had Godot Engine. *runs the other way*
I've seen that OS. Anything that could run on BeOS will run on Haiku.
IBM's OS/2 Warp was resurrected as ArcaOS. When last I checked, the Arca people wanted a big penny from people who wanted to download this OS.
I love Anthony's vibe, he's hilarious in a lowkey way.
even when reverse engineered, the blue screen still intact.
This is open source alpha code. Oh dear. Contribute and fix.
Great post Achmad! I am still laughing. You made my day.
@@a740g no u
Dev 1: guys, let's reverse engineer Windows.
Dev 2: Sure, but where do we start?
Dev 1: BSoD obviously, that's what our user will be seeing a lot.
@@haniffaris8917 What? LOL
React OS is actually used by many very low level developers as a reference for some undocumented functions. It's very useful when working with the inner parts of Windows
I believe you. Guess. I mean someone must care after all these years
Yeah, it's also used alot for kiosk systems, since alot of them need Windows and ReactOS can usually run them
@@SIGSEGV1337 is this due to a lack of processing power in kiosk? I don't see much of a reason to not use OG windows, unless reactos runs smoother.
@@dylen7108 ReactOS is free and is definitely lighter as it moreso resembles older versions of Windows like XP than newer ones. As it's free, they don't have to pay for licensing for an OS that ultimately only really needs to run a single application in fullscreen constantly.
@@dylen7108 licensing and needing an old version of windows without modern MS crap, also reactos doesn't need to phone home to license it or tell Microsoft which start menu tile you clicked on, there's lots of reasons.
Life update: I just love Anthony. He is just so kind and smiling and happy.
Now I understand why it's called ReactOS, because once you try it, your REACTion is OH S**T!
They shoulda called it either “Doors” or “Sills”
Louvres
Screens
Real fake doors
Or frames
Yeap would’ve been better than naming it the same thing as that horrific, cancerous web framework that everyone wants to use all of a sudden
Hey I remember this. It was mid-2005 and this was like 0.2.9 and I was reverse engineering WinPE from flavors of Windows XP, Server 2003 and Longhorn 4051. I was the guy that chimed in on your forums and helped you figure out the line of registry code needed to get the Programs menu to finally pop up after hovering over it with the cursor. Great job guys. Looking forward to the next build.
Appreciate it very much, thank you for your help!
That is so cool!!!!!
I beta tested that version as well as others during that time. I figured out how to get xp drivers to work in vista beta for my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card. Tech support could not help me.
@@supermaster2012 You're glowing really hard today, Rietschin
@@dansko9490 can i introduce you "copyleft"?
10:47 I have felt that so many F'ing times
Happens to me all the time on Windows, basically never happened to me on linux.
@@cestarianinhabitant5898 becuz c00l haxxors n33d c00l OS.
apparently these guy contribute a lot to Wine so it's really neat
@@supermaster2012 Nice thanks this is actually very interesting!
@@supermaster2012 1. just looking at the comments of your first link people have debunked the article with actual sources.
2. Anyone who follows ReactOS's development will tell you that it's not true that there's no progress. We got three versions the past year and we got a new version just this summer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Release_history
3. A quick research on the official Wine website will show you that ReactOS's team are appreciated for their contributions and their work is at the heart of Wine's win32 support development wiki.winehq.org/Acknowledgements. Doesn't look like hate to me. The team also helped the Haiku project for several years www.haiku-os.org/news/2012-02-20_reactos_gets_usb_stack_help_us
4. Please stop spreading misinformation and using antsy forum threads as sources. Do actual research.
@@supermaster2012 what about now that the xp source code has been leaked and dumped
@@supermaster2012 yeah it's not like the entire API is identical to winapi because it's made to emulate it dumbass
@@supermaster2012 This is obviously copied and pasted from another comment I saw. YOU POSTED IT. You’re just copying and pasting this thing with a minor change at the beginning to suit the needs of every comment. You’re just putting it in the reply section of everybody who compliments reactOS.
Linus: How have I never heard of this?
Everyone else: Wow, we haven't heard of ReactOS in 2 decades. It's still around? What???
I remember trying it out about 12 to 15 years ago (edit: on bare metal). The experience was virtually indistinguishable from this video.
In fairness he probably has heard of it and he's just playing the dummy for the sake of the video
And I'm in a completely different bubble; I knew the project was in development, but I had no idea that it was that old.
TBF, original windows used to ask you to reboot when it wasn't necessary.
Back when Windows 95 was still new, it wasn't unthought of to consider the prompt, "Windows has detected a change in your mouse position and needs to restart in order to register the changes" as something real.
Abort, retry or panic?
@@spvillano damn when Windows 95 comes out Linux already had better GUI (KDE) and solid stable , why nobody on the media that time promoted Linux .
used to ask. you are a funny Jarrod.
@ArduinoGuru - As someone that first used Linux in 1998/1999, yeah I'm going to have to call BS on that one.
Linux was extremely hard to use, the GUI that existed back then was basically a joke...
And stability is an even bigger joke.
In my experience Linux is only stable if you configure it once then never EVER alter any software on it ever again.
Linux has always been one of the most brittle, failure prone operating system's I've ever used whenever I've tried it.
Now, FreeBSD is rock solid.
But linux? Touch the slightest thing and the whole system would come tumbling down on your head. (this was all the more true in the late 90's.)
BSD always (and to this day) has the problem of poor hardware support.
But in terms of stability, linux doesn't even come close.
And while I would say that even the late 90's linux builds were more stable and reliable than windows 9x...
The same cannot be said of windows NT vs Linux from that era...
No thanks. I don't want to touch 90's Linux with a 60 foot pole...
Modern Linux... Eh.
But 90's Linux? Nope. Burn it. Burn it with fire...
@@KuraIthys I admit that Windows NT were good OS , my first try with NT family was with Windows 2000 server edition (bit late I know ) , but this is not fair compression at all , Linux got no support from any hardware companies since PC is open standard platform and literally there is thousands of small devices that could run on any modern PC if none of hardware vendors gives Linux developers any hint how their devices runs how you expect volunteers team be able to fireguard how to make stable driver for it ,
in 90's even early 2000's I never had chance to test Linux maybe I hear he name once or twice on couple computer books , first time I hear about it was on 2008 after , back then I was stupid and expected everything to come to work out the box I had no idea how drivers works , after month I give up
because I could't make my DVB card to work on it because I lake the basic knowledge how Linux work and how it detect devices , but in general the user experience were amazing for me and first time on my life I felt how strong my system is ,it was something I can't explain but what was on my mind no single Windows OS's ever come close to this system it was like dream come true fro me . BTW I experience with Windows since 3.1 and 95,98,2000,ME,Vista,xp,7,10 since I work as IT I tried windows on multiple device , and deal with a lot of people all of them had problems with windows after first 3 months from installing it , and no single PC I got my hand on were working correctly with all of bloated software and background tasks specially sh!ts manufactures shipped their PC's with . my 16 years experience conclusion is Windows made people life like hell , and if you don't believe me listen to leaked scammers call to average Windows users and how brainwashed these people are .
When you said "knock-off" I didn't expect ReactOS, lol. I would probably call it a clone.
I do hope it comes out of alpha some day. By then, it will probably be even more long-obsolete than it is now, but it will still probably be really cool to use.
Edit: I just realised that I've hardly looked at ReactOS since 2016! On their website it looks different, so I guess I have a lot of interesting news to catch up on!
"It was workiiinnng!!!" Reminded me of college days when we would pretend program crash to make it look like we had a working code, to get extension of deadline.
0:21
Not gonna lie, that was the smoothest way to introduce your sponsor.
You should never lie
Linus is the king of segways
Alexander Norsker *segues
When it works so well. Why not use it again? 12:35
If you hit skip 3 times, it normally gets you past the sponsor and intro
10:47 Well, there’s another Microsoft “feature” they’ve successfully reimplemented ...
XD Indeed
They used pretty much everything 😂
I remember having a stupid motherboard with stupid Sata Driver and a stupid WD drive. Friday after coming home windows worked for 1 hour, spending saturday reinstall all my sh$$ and gaming for 1 hour sunday. This kept on going for half a year.
@@firionrazar3797 What do you mean by WD drive? did you mean Western Digital?
@@eness379 yes, it was a 200gb IDE Western Digital HDD, a matsonic socket A motherboard (I don't remember the model) and it all didn't worked until I exchanged the motherboard and the hdd (the hdd had bad sectors and the motherboard probably needed a bios update for those big hdd back in the days and I didn't know)
REACTOS is fun to play with for a couple hours, that's about it. I've been waiting for ver 1.0 since I found it in 2000.
Linus: This seems really finnicky, is it better on bare metal?
Anthony: *laughs in incredulity*
Windows: laughs even harder
It ran rock solid on my PIII computer, much better than the VM
Linus: "How have I never heard of this??
..and how have you never heard of our sponsor?????"
me: "how do I never see it coMING
Hahahaha he kinda look like Jim Carey 😂😂
Almost as if he's the Spanish inquisition.
me: smashes right arrow
You'll see that my mind is too fast for eyes
He is so good with sponsering that in the end u dont even mind watching it XD
- Mom, can i have Windows?
- No, we have Windows at home.
Windows at home:
-Mom, can i have Linux?
-no, we have Linux at home
Linux at home:
Linus Sebastian
Other way around
The man at the store said this was the one you wanted.
Why would you even ask for windows? You can have linux for free and it's better than windows
10:20 Linus acting like a little kid who wanna play a pc game
I love how Anthony has come out of his shell some of the old videos he seems a bit weary but now he steals the show
"That's incorrect even on Windows" 😂😂😂
This is actually an impressive feat from a developer point of view (working on a similar, not really, this is miles more complicated, but Linux based project). Like I can imagine how much they had to go through just to get this thing to boot. As unstable as it is, it's a miracle they got this far honestly especially being confined to make everything work as Windows.
But who actually WANTS Windows?
@@AlbyTastic ME
Who puts parentheses inside their parentheses
Ben Korpella Lisp programmers
@@BenK1122 Apparently I do hahaha
"What indeed."
That absolutely killed me.
I have been using React for a while. I had an od atom CPU netbook gathering dust since windows XP ended... I tried dumping a few different OS on it, in the end I settled with a triple boot Android, React Os and Lubuntu set up
I think Anthony is trying so hard not to laugh throughout this whole vid lol.
He is laughing haha
I think he needs to shave his head and go all in on the bald look. rather than forcing us to watch his meaningless attempt to hold on to the little bit he has. better yet do a video on hair restoration technology so he can get it back.
@@psionx1 💀💀💀 that's fucked bro allow him, he's still got quite a bit of hair on the rest of his head. Besides he'd look like if gollum from the LOTR got diabetes 💀💀💀
@@sufihussain9826 wow, you were even meaner in that last sentence. I laughed though lpl
You can tell Anthony was really enjoying Linus not knowing what to do lol
Kid: Mom can we have Windows?
Mom: We have Windows at home.
Windows at home:
@@bjtoadkoops Everything is free if you're resourceful enough ;)
Everyone has windows in their homes. How else you gonna look outside?
@@bjtoadkoops lul Windows is essentially free if you don't mind the reminder to activate windows
You done, yet? Screw copy-cat overused comment meme formats.
@@DominicsFilms Exactly/
Wow super job by the ReactOS team. That is the Windows experience I remember. Pure frustrations and blue screens. Which is why I've been running Linux these past 24 years now.
Exactly.
Anthony, for next time, just so you know. There is the option to actually make it so that the mouse is actually only plugged into the VM(if that makes sense to you) If you select the specific usb thing and set it as only for the VM in some of the virtual box settings. Sorry for my bad explanation, but you'll find it I'm sure.
Fun story though, I know that cause I was using my pc with a VM for playing 2 games on the same PC on different monitors, cause that was the only way it happened to occur to me for doing it. So I just plugged in 2 mice and 2 keyboards in the system and set one set for the VM(which actually ''unplugs'' them from the main pc in some kind of virtual way? so that only the VM takes input from them)
Hope this info is helpful for next time.
LTT: *video*
ReactOS Devs: we're not ready for this
ReactOS Devs: We need more than 5 year to survive to this ads
Linus: "This is really finicky; is it better on bare metal?"
Anthony (With a heavy heart of knowing the truth): "Ohhhhh no"
@Linus Tech Tips Can you tall me specifications of your PC where you installed that system?
Mine doesn't want to install (Or freezes on install wizard, or freezes on boot screen (when I will forget to unplug USB devices, or crashes at "installing devices"))
Please, and thanks
dO yOu WaNa ReBoOt FoR nO rEaSoN?
Anthony is the man, I feel as though he is over qualified to work with Linus.
linus is fucking stupid he doesn't deserve anthony
Jokey Carrot i can’t tell if this satire
@@Simbarrr don't think it's satire, buddy
Pranav Flame definitely a bruh moment then
Probably earns more than if he wasn't tho
I'm more surprised than anything that Linus has never heard of ReactOS.
I've been following this project for more than a decade. I've been waiting for the day that the filesystem is safe for use before I try anything serious with it.
@@WarrenGarabrandt I guess you'll have to wait another few decades for that.
druaga1 fans
@@BenEsherick yes but heard of it way before learning bout Druaga :P
Because he is not a linux user but Anthony is.
I hope anthony never leaves
0:17
And that's when Linus broke the fourth wall.
Linus at 0:22 : "And how have you never heard of..."
Me: *press right arrow twice*
Or just press L...
Yep
I don’t, I watch through it.
Double tapped the right side of the screen for mobile users
@@sajjeel123 I guess this only works in the app?
2016: Hey smokers Druaga1 here with ReactOS
A d were going to install it on the 2003 Mac mini using this Adata SSD
Weed SSD funny
I love that guys videos. Absolute madness.
@@MihkelKukk 420 of gigabytes storage
🌿💣💥 🦶
0:20 Every time Linus prepares to advertize it makes me laugh inside :D
Effective since I got interested in some of the services suggested.
Over some years, I have installed ReactOS on several computers (with ReactOS running in virtual machines). It has never been able to match Windows for any purpose. However, the ReactOS BSOD has been less common than the BSOD in Windows 3.0.
lmao "That's incorrect even on Windows."
I’m impressed at how accurately they’ve managed to clone Windows stability and ease of use!
Pascal Harris A true genius
Wow, I've had some trouble with ReactOS, usually with trying to install software, but I've never had that much trouble with it booting in a VM. An interesting free OS for sure, but definitely not yet ready to be a computer's primary OS.
I always love your tactless segways
This man will never stop surprising me with the way how perfectly he fits sponsors into everything he says XD
Every time I see Linus, I want to punch his face
@@slanguagefreak2388 I don't think anyone gives a shit.
@@ve6009 Clearly, that is why people feel the need to respond to the comment.
@@slanguagefreak2388 sure bud
@00justSomeAccount00 As if he has no say in the script
Linus: How have you never heard of our sponsor, FreshBooks?
Me, 20 minutes ago: *watches linustechtips video where freshbooks is the sponsor*
FreshBooks is the sponsor in like half of his videos lol
never forget tunnel bear
Only amateurs use FreshBooks, I have been using their competitor StaleBooks! They have much better shelf life!
Linus: "I wanna play Halo!"
Me with my little brother flashbacks PTSD
I saw the title, I read:
"LTT tests ReactOS"
I guess some people read:
"Trying out a Windows knock-off"
"Yeah, that's not how you do it even on Windows"
Dang, Anthony really knows how to throw a mean hook at his boss. :)
Looks to be a very accurate recreation of the Windows ME experience, inability to boot more than twice and all!
@@supermaster2012 "do not support this fraud and do not give them money" says the guy who most likely spends a lot of money on hentai crap
@@Gamerappa oooooooooooo
@@Gamerappa ok but what would that have to do with anything?
Lmao
@@supermaster2012 like I give a shit about Microsofts copyright
Really digging this Antony guy. Very Informed and super informative.
10:17 Monst convincing Windows clone out there!
As a Sysadmin this is a great presentation of how I feel at work. Computers suck, man.
"How have I never heard of this? How have you never heard of our sponsor?"
The joke's on you, I've heard of both! Git GUD, NERD!
Facts GG or GGN
Anyone still remember Tunnel Bear? First epic sponsor on LTT
9:18 And this is why we love Linus.
I was a little surprised by the tone of this being a knock off, janky etc. I mean yeah I get it. But it's freaking amazing that they have something compatible with Windows at this level, like when you consider it was coded from the ground up. And when you consider how complex Windows actually is.
windows wouldnt actually be so complex or heavy when the developers actually had more than zero skill. look at linux, look at OS X, look at , they are WAY cleaner, WAY faster and WAY more reliable. windows is just a mess of tangled redundant and buggy code. that it didnt implode is a fucking miracle. but i guess band-aid'ing things until it collapses under it's weight is a thing that brings the most muhneyz
@@Cloudmaster1511 yeah yeah linux fanboy very insighful thoughts with zero evidence
@@Cloudmaster1511 Windows is faster than any other OS I've used. Hell, Windows 11 has lower system requirements than Debian.
I still come back to this video every other month or so just to revisit that genius segue.
"So you mean to tell me they have been at this 24 years and its still alpha" ... welcome to open source software
Welcome to the likes of BeamNG Drive, where the game/application is in alpha forever. .-.
Inny74 haha I thought I was the only one who would know that
It's more like the following:
_"They've been at this for 24 years, it's still in alpha, and some people are still developing it?"_
Welcome to the beautiful place of open-source software where stubborn nerds never give up.
Welcome to HL3
@Girizcool Windows 10, yet another permanent alpha OS.
I"ve been playing about with ROS for years. They're really making strides.
"so, btrfs is the btr option" - how did Linus miss this opportunity?
Is noone gonna talk about that smooth transition into the sponsor, that was too good
I’m so glad Linus is talking about React OS. Maybe this will give React OS more reach, if this was not in alpha and in version 1 I’d just use React OS. I love it! Hopefully the project can go further now.
I hope they also cover TempleOS
How do you love that thing?
@@Neumah how do you not man? They straight out reverse engineered windows. Atleast from a CS and research point of view they deserve attention
From a technical perspective, ROS is quite amazing, but from a practical perspective, it's uh... It's not great. I mean, even if it was more stable, there's still not much reason to use it over Linux or even just a standard Windows install.
@@arnox4554 Yep. And you can get Windows 10 for like $12 now.
11:37 when playing halo in virtual box, disable mouse integration.
and double press right ctrl to reset mouse to center axis
@@alexbarton1945 mouse integration
How have I not seen this video until now? I need this in my life for devices that have Windows only drivers!!!
0:28 no no linus overclocked marketing tricks 😂😂
Here's a good test for your sanity:
Using only ReactOS for 24 hours challenge
Not using but developing only ReactOS for 24 hours would be a nice and useful challenge :)
I actually remember reading about this some years ago, thought the project was long gone! Glad to see this is still being developed.
This video was awesome, it shows exactly what the experience of running Windows is.
To be honest, FreeWin sounds better for an open source reverse engineered Windows operating system than ReactOS
Damn it Anthony is becoming my favorite calling out Linus for reusing segues.
Blue screen of death simulator? Lol
Seriously though, for someone to pick a project with this type of scope is quite amazing. I'm going to have to try this in a VM too.
I find ReactOS pretty stable on Hyper-V, assuming you've got Win 10 Pro.
@@affieuk well, one OS out of two being stable is good. ;)
blue screen of life
@@losttale1 blue screen of bile.
Always remember, a bug with seniority is a feature.
I've been testing this for about 15 years. I promise, your experience will be like theirs. It's never been great, only nifty.
2:15 Maybe graphics bugs are bc of VirtualBox Guest additions (yes I saw VBox Guest additions icon in the taskbar)
The best episodes are when both Linus and this large guy work in tandem
Hey Smokers! Druaga1 here and today we're going to be installing ReactOS on a toaster with an SSD.
Good memories
Well with the new smart toasters it wouldn’t surprise me if Druaga1 found some way of getting it to work
yessss
Still waiting for that "Overclocking my smart watch" video.
0:03 we all had this friend who gets up in your business with this kind of nosy face. Classic linus face