Trying out a Windows knock-off 

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

The Pentium must be protected

That Pentium is maybe the key to time machine development

Protect the pentium at all cost!

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.

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

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.)

@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

I love Anthony so much ^^

@@nieks.7326 same

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

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~”

Well, for the casual user who's not hooked on something like Apple Music, Adobe Photoshop or MS Word (as my ex-wife was), in my experience Ubuntu works great. But if they're used to any of those things? They'll run up against the wall trying to use Cider, GiMP or LibreOffice, and be demanding the Windows versions NOW! (As my ex-wife did...before she got so fed up with the switchover to Windows 10 she jumped all the way over to Mac OS!)

​@@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.

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

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 :^)))

*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*

Indeed 😅

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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.

@@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.

Happens to me all the time on Windows, basically never happened to me on linux.

@@cestarianinhabitant5898 becuz c00l haxxors n33d c00l OS.

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.

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

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"?

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)

Windows: laughs even harder

It ran rock solid on my PIII computer, much better than the VM

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 .

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

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

@@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/

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

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

Exactly.

ReactOS Devs: We need more than 5 year to survive to this ads

But who actually WANTS Windows?

@@AlbyTastic ME

Who puts parentheses inside their parentheses

Ben Korpella Lisp programmers

@@BenK1122 Apparently I do hahaha

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

Windows: hold my beer

Pascal Harris A true genius

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

🌿💣💥 🦶

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

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!

@@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

Facts GG or GGN

Anyone still remember Tunnel Bear? First epic sponsor on LTT

and double press right ctrl to reset mouse to center axis

@@alexbarton1945 mouse integration

@@supermaster2012 This is a copypasta, i saw this response on another comment thread.

@@supermaster2012 Back to your point, how would an NT 4 leak allow Windows 2K and XP support? There has to have been some measure of original development to allow NT 5/5.1 kernel support. Your story simply does not check out, jackass.

@@supermaster2012 It's all just different articles restating what one (likely biased) MS kernel dev said. Your sources are just not up to snuff, man.

@@supermaster2012 Yes, but all the info is sourced from the same guy. It's just reposted on different sites. One thing reposted multiple times isn't multiple sources. Plus, who gives a shit? ReactOS is a pretty small time project in the grand scheme of things. If it goes down, so what? Some people are going to be sad that they put down money on a dead project, and development will end. The fact that you are trying to disuede people from using an os that probably has active users in the 4 digits is pathetic, and you should reconsider some life choices.

@@supermaster2012 17 years of little progress is already enough to not support this project though

I wouldn't mind if every customer service rep I ever call sounds like him.

He also needs a haircut.

@@2m7b5 shaving a no. 1 is always better then a comb over. Thanks to Bruce Willis it is now cool for white guys to have shaved heads..

@@sangpark5323 if only they were even a little bit as knowledgeable as him.

Been there. His eyes are smiling, that's for sure.

>tfw your boss is a goon

God dam. I was born in 1988. Grew up with win 95

Boomer.

@@sol_in.victus old and overused "joke" is old and overused. It needs to be taken out back and put down. It's so unoriginal now it's pathetic.

@@sol_in.victus People born in the 80s are not boomers...

OK boomers.

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.

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.