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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 days ago

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

www.phoronix.com

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

www.phoronix.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 23 days ago
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    23 days ago

    “Details on X”.

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

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    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.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      Might also pave a path towards governments moving off windows if it can run existing software they use.

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    https://loss32.org/

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      amazing

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      What a time to be alive.

  • J3N5T4R@lemmy.world
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    It’s good to be back in 1998 again.

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      I honestly would love it…

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    who even cares at this point? proton on linux is much better, maybe if the development on reactos wasnt so glacial they wouldve had a place… like 10 years ago

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    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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      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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      why would you try to copy windows?

      Because you may prove you can? I mean, this is an absolutely valid reason.

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      Never underestimate a dev’s willingness to do something simply for the hell of it

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    That’s fantastic. Congrats to the ReactOS devs

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