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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day 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 · 1 day ago
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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    how does it handle Starcraft and Age of Empire 2?

    • ليتني كوري شمالي @lemmy.ml
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      I use a ReactOS vm to play Command and Conquer Red Alert. I haven’t tried the games you mentioned but they should work if they work in Wine.

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    It’s good to be back in 1998 again.

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    https://loss32.org/

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      What a time to be alive.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      amazing

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    “Details on X”.

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

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

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

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

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          yeah that’s true

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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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      ReactOS collaborates with projects like Wine; you would arguably not have Proton without it (or at least not as useful). The process of building ReactOS itself is useful to the FOSS ecosystem perhaps more than the finished “product”.

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